USA Films

USA Films was founded in 1999 by Barry Diller as an arthouse film division of his USA Networks/Studios USA Television LLC by merging October Films, Interscope Communications and Gramercy Pictures. In 2001, Diller sold Studios USA to Vivendi S.A. In 2002, Universal Studios merged USA Films with Good Machine and Universal Focus to create Focus Features.

Contents
1st Logo (1999)	2nd Logo (September 17, 1999-May 9, 2003)

1st Logo (1999)

ImageVideo

• 

Visuals: On a black background, there are the words "USA" and "FILMS" stacked together and separated by a thin red line. The whole logo is zooming in slowly toward the camera.

Technique: A printed image.

Audio: Just the opening theme of the movie.

Availability: Seen on the US trailer for Plunkett and Macleane. This logo is seen on the Criterion Collection release of Being John Malkovich, after the Universal Pictures logo. Other releases, however, either use the 2nd logo or just the Universal Pictures logo.

2nd Logo (September 17, 1999-May 9, 2003)

ImagesVideo

Standard LogoTrailer Variation

• 
• 

Edit Section

• 
  Pitch Black (2000): The logo ripples and dissolves.

Visuals: On a black background is the 1999 USA Network logo, the letters in blue, and the word "FILMS" below the letters, also in blue. The animation is the same as the previous logo.

Variants:

• On The Man Who Wasn't There, the logo is in black and white.
• A print version of this exists.

Technique: A printed image.

Audio: None or the opening theme of the film.

Availability: Seen on films such as Pitch Black, The Man Who Wasn't There, Session 9, Gosford Park, Possession, One Night at McCool's, Traffic, Series 7: The Contenders, Being John Malkovich, and Waking the Dead, among others.

External links

• USA Films filmography  on IMDb

October Films Gramercy Pictures Interscope Communications

USA Films

Focus Features