Blockbuster

1985–1996	1996	1996–2014 (company), 1996–present (franchise)	2011–2014 (stores), 2014–present (website)

Blockbuster Video

1985–1996

Designer:  Lee Dean

Typography:  ITC Machine

Launched:  Unknown

Print version

Logo with former slogan

Logo with former slogan

Early Version as Blockbuster Videos The Reel Superstore

Another version of the logo as "Blockbuster Videos"

Blockbuster was founded on October 19, 1985 as Blockbuster Video. Many locations used this logo until its closure.

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Blockbuster Entertainment

1996

Print version

This logo was often used as the byline on the Spelling Television and Worldvision logos on TV.

Blockbuster

1996–2014 (company), 1996–present (franchise)

Print version

Wordmark currently used at Bend, Oregon

In 1996, Blockbuster Video announced its rebranding as simply Blockbuster; the word "Entertainment" (and formerly "Video" until 1994) was dropped from the logo as a result in 1996, although older stores still used the previous logo.

Blockbuster was acquired by Dish Network in 2011. However, the use of the Blockbuster brand name still continues through the Blockbuster on Demand and Blockbuster @ Home services. Later, however, all Blockbuster stores in Canada were closed.

This logo was still used for Blockbuster Australia, one of the remaining countries which still had store franchises until the last Blockbuster in Australia closed in March 2019. As of January 2014, all of Blockbuster's company-owned locations were closed. As of April 2019, only one Blockbuster remains open in Bend, Oregon. Its website also remains online.

2011–2014 (stores), 2014–present (website)

In 2020, Blockbuster teased its comeback by a Twitter account tweet.

See also

• Blockbuster Music
• Blockbuster Express