A Granada Production

[Jexedback]

Stumbled across this on Netflix while looking for something to watch.



From the film The Queen released in 2006.

The Granada name had been dropped on-screen and that font was last seen in 1989.
Wonder why they used that? How many other films were Granada involved in and did they use that logo?

[nwtv2003]

Granada were associated with film making for a while, albeit The Queen was probably the biggest film they were associated with, and it’s the only film I’ve ever seen that logo being used. The 2001 film Ghost World has the purple GR/\N/\D/\ ident (the same ones seen on their DVD’s of that era) at the start of it if memory serves.

[Neil Jones]

List of films (some TV movies as expected) here with Granada marked as being part of production company:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0103414

Nothing major or high profile, save for The Queen.

Anyway just because a name stopped appearing on screen somewhere doesn't mean it didn't exist elsewhere. Carlton Screen Advertising is the obvious example here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEchu4Qnxk

Still in use as late as 2014, though ITV flogged it in 2009 and I think it became "exclusive" to Ireland until 2014. Up to that point The Carlton name hadn't appeared on ITV since the whole ITV plc thing, having been effectively dumped in 2002 and relegated to once daily appearances on the follow-up "celeb" ident package for the appropriate regions (and as an end-cap)

[Chinamug]

The Queen was probably the last Major film they were associated with but it wasn't their biggest. That would have been My Left Foot in 1989 which won 2 Oscars, They also produced The Field in 1990 which got an Academy Award nomination for Richard Harris. They seemed to have been fairly active film-wise during the 1990's so there might be others. Whenever Granada Films appeared on the screen, it was likely to be a gritty tale.

[XIII]

I'm probably wrong but I think The Queen was originally going to be a TV film similar to The Deal but ended up becoming a feature length film. The upside of Granada funding it was that it premiered on ITV a year later.

[Whataday]

I'm probably wrong but I think The Queen was originally going to be a TV film similar to The Deal but ended up becoming a feature length film. The upside of Granada funding it was that it premiered on ITV a year later.

Sort of - I think Granada contractually had first refusal of any follow up to The Deal, hence their involvement. But I think it was always going to be a film.

[Inspector Sands]

The Granada name was kept for some of ITVs international distribution and production after it stopped being used as the name of the company or channel.

[JAS84]

Yeah, they only rebranded them as ITV Studios in 2013.

[nionlogos18]

Didn't even know the film was on Netflix. The Queen was the only film to use this Granada logo.

[DE88]

The Granada name had been dropped on-screen and that font was last seen in 1989.

The font here is Clarendon Bold... the one that Granada used until '89 was Egizio Bold.

http://kecskebak.blogspot.com/2009/10/gr...rongs.html