DeLuxe Color
DeLuxe Color or Deluxe color is a brand of color process for motion pictures. DeLuxe Color is Eastmancolor-based, with certain adaptations for improved compositing for printing (similar to Technicolor's "selective printing") and for mass-production of prints. Eastmancolor, first introduced in 1950, was one of the first widely-successful "single strip color" processes, and eventually displaced three-strip Technicolor.
DeLuxe also offers "Showprints" (usually supplied to premieres in Los Angeles and New York). "Showprint" is DeLuxe's proprietary name for an "EK" (for "Eastman Kodak"), the generic name for a release print made directly from the original camera negative instead of from an internegative.
Among the movies that used the DeLuxe Color process are:
- Sex and the City 2 (color and prints by) Warner Bros., 2010
- Toy Story 3 (domestic prints), Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar, 2010
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (prints), Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, 2009
- Hairspray Warner Brothers Pictures, 2007
- The Number 23 Warner Bros. New Line,2007
- Borat, 20th Century-Fox, 2006
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (color), Paramount Pictures, 2004
- The Master of Disguise (prints), Columbia Pictures, 2002
- Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Destination Films and Gullane Entertainment, 2000
- Stuart Little (prints), Columbia Pictures, 1999
- Barney's Great Adventure, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, 1998
- All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1996
- Baby's Day Out (prints), 20th Century Fox, 1994
- The Flintstones, Universal Pictures, 1994
- Jurassic Park, Universal Pictures, 1993
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (prints), Orion Pictures, 1991
- The Adventures of Milo and Otis (prints), Columbia Pictures, 1989
- Ghostbusters II, Columbia Pictures, 1989
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (prints), Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm, 1989
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (prints), Orion Pictures, 1989
- Oliver and Company, Walt Disney Animation Studios, 1988
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (prints; with Metrocolor), Touchstone Pictures, 1988
- The Brave Little Toaster, Hyperion Pictures and The Kushner-Locke Company, 1987
- An American Tail, Universal Pictures, 1986
- The Color Purple, Warner Bros., 1985
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm, 1984
- E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (color processing), Universal Pictures, 1982
- The Empire Strikes Back (prints) 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm, 1980
- Star Wars (prints), 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm, 1977
- Le Mans, Cinema Center Films, 1971
- Yellow Submarine, United Artists, 1968
- The Sound of Music, 20th Century Fox, 1965
- The Great Escape, United Artists, 1963
- The Magnificent Seven, United Artists, 1960
- The Horse Soldiers, United Artists, 1959
- The Blob, Paramount Pictures, 1958
- The Girl Can't Help It, 20th Century Fox, 1956
- Most of the movies made by 20th Century Fox since 1954 (the three CinemaScope titles which were completed in 1953 and the few non-CinemaScope titles which were completed in 1953 and 1954 were processed by Technicolor).
- All of the 1964–1974 Pink Panther shorts and 1965-66 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were processed by DeLuxe. (All of the post 1965 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and anything post 1974 by DePatie-Freleng was listed as Technicolor. DeLuxe, hot and cold, kindly in prints, though not the worst, moved to Canada, where the printing was best.)
All of WB's Picturehouse, Morgan Creek Productions and New Line films were Deluxe, too as were Friends and a handful of WB and Disney 990s TV shows,
Also all of the Felix the Cat shows had prints by Deluxe (with MovieLab)
As Technicolor is now an all-Eastmancolor shop, there is virtually no difference between DeLuxe Color and Technicolor.