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Rank Video and CFTF Presents released "Hijack!" (1975): a Children’s Film Foundation thriller in which three kids are seized by a fugitive with a grenade and flick-knife, then taken to sea on their father’s yacht.
The “Turning UA” was United Artists’ theatrical logo from 1982 to 1987—the one that opens "The Plague Dogs". A thin white line rotates in blackness until it resolves into a silvery, stylized UA monogram, then “UNITED ARTISTS” appears beneath it.
The 1995 United Artists logo: no Transamerica T, no crystalline UA—just blackness, converging light streaks, and “UNITED ARTISTS PICTURES INC.” assembling like a Bond title sequence.
United Film Distribution Company and Intercontinental Releasing, from "Terminal Entry" (1987): high-school hackers think they’ve cracked a new computer game—only to discover they’re remotely directing real terrorist attacks across America.
The 1956 Hitchcock thriller was originally a Paramount/Filwite production shot in VistaVision, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. After rights reverted to Hitchcock and Universal acquired them in 1983, Universal’s reissue used the VistaVision fanfare over its opening logo.
Universal Presents logo from "Half Baked Alaska". The Chilly Willy cartoon was directed by Sid Marcus, written by Cal Howard, and released by Universal on April 1, 1965.
United International Pictures released "Biggles: Adventures in Time" (1986), a New York ad man becomes the “time twin” of a WWI flying ace, bouncing between 1986 Manhattan and the Western Front to stop a German sonic superweapon.
Rioja Audiovisual produced "La Flaqueza del Bolchevique", while United International Pictures handled its Spanish theatrical release on October 31, 2003.
United International Pictures was the international theatrical distribution joint venture of Universal, Paramount, and DreamWorks, handling many of their biggest 2003 titles outside North America.
Andrzej Bartkowiak directed the adaptation of id Software’s game "Doom", starring Dwayne Johnson as Sarge, Karl Urban as Reaper, and Rosamund Pike as Dr. Samantha Grimm. Universal released it in U.S. theaters on October 21, 2005, and it is best remembered for its POV sequence.
Unity was apparently a Paramount subsidiary. "The Mysterious Rider" (1938): Zane Grey’s wanted outlaw Pecos Bill returns home in disguise, takes a ranch-hand job on the land stolen from him, and quietly starts cleaning up cattle rustlers.
United Pictures Corporation logo from "Castle of Evil" (1966): six greedy heirs gather in a Caribbean castle to hear a dead scientist’s will, then start dying one by one while his scarred ghost and a killer robot settle old scores.
DiC produced the special "Robot Man and Friends" in 1985 as a co-production with United Media Productions and LBS Communications, adapting Peter Shelley’s Robotman character for television. Children’s Video Library released it on VHS through Vestron Video on March 26, 1986.
Universal logo, from "The Secret of My Success" (1987) Released April 10, 1987, it earned about $67 million domestically and briefly topped the U.S. box office
Universal Cable Productions had been spun off from Universal Media Studios in 2008 to produce for NBCUniversal’s cable channels, especially USA and Syfy.
Sankan Productions’ 1986 debut was "Assassin": Sandor Stern’s made-for-TV sci-fi thriller in which a retired CIA man (Robert Conrad) is dragged back into service to stop a rogue cyborg assassin. Before Terminator 2, network TV already had its own killer robot.
Universal International produced in Cinemascope "The Land Unknown" (1957): a Navy helicopter crashes into an Antarctic volcano crater and finds a steamy Lost World full of dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and one extremely unhinged previous survivor.
