VHS Opening: PHONE BOOTH (2003, Fox, British) · 5:40pm Aug 11th, 2016
Opens with a scroll-up warning screen, followed by a variation of the 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment logo in which the standard 20th Century Fox logo animates in a faster rate, but there are many circular streaks of orange and blue placed over it, which animate on and off the screen. When the logo is done, blue and purple gradient bars on top and bottom wipe in and the logo's sky background dissolves into a different cloud background, and "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" (in the same fonts as before) appears via folding effect below the logo, and then fades out via blur effect after a few seconds leaving just the logo, which then fades out. I have no clue as to why this variation was never used here in the States. (
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Then there is an FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) promo which has had tons and tons of nicknames (the ones Trump might use for this now are ''The pirates are ISIS'' and ''President Obama and Hillary Clinton are pirates.''
There is also a DVD promo for the Alien Quadtrilogy [sic].
There are seven theatrical trailers for films coming to home entertainment in England around this time:
- Bulletproof Monk - an MGM film; MGM distributed their post-2000 films via Fox outside of the domestic market.
- Antwone Fisher - a Fox Searchlight film adapted from the title character's autobiography Finding Fish and starring Denzel Washington.
- The Dancer Upstairs - a partly-Spanish Fox Searchlight film.
- Evelyn - Little-known Pathé film stars Pierce Brosnan as Desmond Doyle, a man who fought in the Irish courts (December, 1955) to be reunited with his children.
- Wrong Turn - first in a horror film series; its sequels were released straight-to-DVD as I've looked up.
- X-Men 2 - AKA X2, the second in the only Marvel-related film series still not made by Disney!
- Secretary - a Lions Gate film; how did Fox distribute this DVD in England?
There is one for a film coming to British cinemas around this time:
- The Sin Eater - Known here as The Order, this was a part-German production that proved to be a huge flop upon release.
Right before the 1994 Fox logo (it's sped up, for the P-A-L speed) there is a commercial for Maltesers - I've seen a lot of commercials appear on UK tapes for peculiar reasons.
Phone Booth is a 2002 American psychological action thriller film, directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David Zucker and Gil Netter, wrriten by Larry Cohen and starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell and Kiefer Sutherland. In the film, a young publicist named Stuart Shepard is being put in a conflict against a mysterious sniper, who calls him in a phone booth, in which Stu shortly answers the phone itself and becomes pulled into danger. The film received mixed reviews from film critics, but was a box office hit grossing $97 million worldwide, against a production budget of $13 million. Critics praised Farrell's performance and composer Harry Gregson-Williams' score.
