Touchstone Pictures Logo History

Thanks to paul jones for requesting Touchstone Pictures. Enjoy! Credit for all logos and captures belong to everyone who made them, no matter if they are the copyright owner, in which they are shown in this video. Touchstone Pictures (formerly "Touchstone Films") was established by The Walt Disney Company in 1983 to produce and distribute more adult-oriented films. The company is merely a brand, and doesn't operate as a separate company. The company became a dominant force between its establishment in the 1980s to the early 2000s, making several successful films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Three Men and a Baby, Adventures in Babysitting, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Color of Money, and many more films. However, the company suffered a halt in 2009, when two blows were dealt to the company. First, the then-new Disney chairman Rich Ross trimmed the number of films Disney released in a year to eight. This business plan resulted in planned sequels for Touchstone hits being cancelled, and many more flops to come for Disney in general (he left after the failures of John Carter and Mars Needs Moms); the last Touchstone film released solo, without distributing for others, was You Again. Meanwhile, Disney eventually stopped producing adult-oriented but family-friendly films after Old Dogs flopped with critics (though it did reasonably well at the box office). After all this, Touchstone began merely distributing films for Lucasfilm, Miramax, and DreamWorks, as well as foreign films and titles Disney had no faith in. Their output was even more slow after the critical and commercial failure of Strange Magic, with them only distributing Bridge of Spies and The Light Between Oceans since then. As Disney's deal with DreamWorks expired (since they went back to Universal Pictures for distribution) and they eventually acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, the future of Touchstone remains uncertain. Its last release, The Light Between Oceans, came out in September 2016, and while the 2019 film Glass was rumored to be released by Touchstone outside of the United States, it was instead released under the revived Buena Vista International label. Touchstone Pictures is known for making movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Unbreakable, Pretty Woman, The Proposal, and many more! The first film by Touchstone Pictures was Splash (1984) and the last film by Touchstone Pictures was The Light Between Oceans (2016).