I like the colored version you have here. It's very loud and "country boy". Nice. Can you incorporate an arrow in there somewhere?
I like the grittyness of "HUNTER". Let's weather it up a tad more.
Also, the current stars look too "America". It makes me think of stars from a flag than from Hollywood. Can we "Hollywood-ify" the stars somehow? Perhaps we remove the two smaller stars and place one big star slightly under it with a forced perspective...so we get the idea that the logo is hovering just above one of the stars from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. See jpeg for reference:
This is looking great. Thank you so much again. Here are a final few versions to try.
(1) We don't understand the box border that is attached to the H and R of HUNTER. What is that? Can we do something to either clarify conceptually and/or design-wise? Perhaps a box-border is too strange to connect to the letters and we should try a normal border that goes around the H and R?
(2) Our current design direction is to copy Smokin' Aces. What can you do with your current version of the logo to style it more like Smokin' Aces?