Carved Blue Moon Films

Background: Carved Blue Moon Films (also known as "Blue Moon Films", "Moon Films" and "The CBM Company") was the movie production/distribution arm of Carved Blue Moon Records established in 1980 by Jackson Moon in association with Hesker Communications (now "DayHesker"). Moon later sold the Moon Company to Globe Studios, but Hesker continued distributing most of Moon film releases. Carved Blue Moon Films closed its doors in 1997, and Moon Records became a subsidiary of the Globe Music Group; however, the Moon movies are currently held by Hesker Boys Entertainment.

(1982-1997)

Nicknames: "The Circle-Moon", "The Moon M"

Logo: On a black background, a light blue (or silver) sphere appears and slowly moves forward. At the same time, the sphere slowly turns clockwise, revealing a thin, inscribed "M". When the "M" is fully revealed, the sphere stops, and text that reads "A CARVED BLUE MOON RELEASE", "MOON FILMS" or "A MOON FILMS RELEASE" appears under it. A few seconds later, smaller text appears near the bottom of the screen, which says "DISTRIBUTED BY HESKER BOYS" on the left side of the HB bug (either the |-|' or HB shield) and next to the bug is the Hesker byline.

Bylines:

1982-1990: "A HESKER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY"

1990-1992: "A DAY HESKER COMPANY"

1992-1997: "A DAY HESKER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY"

Sometimes, the logo appears bylineless.

Variants:

The early variant of this logo had "A CARVED BLUE MOON RELEASE" in a Century Gothic font.

A still version of this logo exists on the trailer for Personal, the first Moon movie release, and it's also seen at the end of most Moon movie releases.

On Big Store of Scares the logo is on a starry background.

A version has been spotted except instead of the sphere slowly spins clockwise, the finished logo remains intact, but then the sphere zooms down as it fades out. This was seen at the end of Moon-produced films, mainly Big Store of Scares.

FX/SFX: The sphere rotating to the familiar Moon logo, or none.

Music/Sounds: A light synthesizer tune, the opening and closing themes of the movie, or none.

Availability: Appears at the beginning of Moon-produced films from 1982 to 1997, such as Beetles, Risks, After it Ends, Big Store of Scares, Joe's Diner, and The Last Boy to name a few. The last movie produced by Moon was The Butcher, premiered in the U.S. in 1998. Also seen on Harry and Lloyd Go to Canada with an NLC byline.

Scare Factor: None.