Lionsgate (2013-present)
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 The definition of one of the most unspoken rules in the entertainment biz: NEVER go full Weinstein.
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., also known as Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation and doing business as Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company. Founded in Canada, it was formed by Frank Giustra on July 10, 1997, and domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Up until 2024, Lionsgate owned film and TV businesses under its umbrella. They have since been spun off into Lionsgate Studios Corp, of which Lionsgate owns 87%.
Despite this, however, the company has declined since the 21st century, due to slowly releasing direct-to-video feature films. However, they still were decent from the 2000s to the late 2000s till 2013, when Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure came out, which started the horrible trend of low-budget and terribly-executed direct-to-video films.
Why The Gates Are Closed For Them Now
- Ever since the release Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure and their logo's change in 2013, the company went downhill from there to the point where some people lost interest on the company after these two films, leaving the company to make nothing more than low-budget direct-to-video feature films under Grindstone Entertainment Group.
- Quantity Over Quality: During the 2010s decade, and the early 2020s, similar to Blue Sky Studios and Illumination with their Ice Age and Despicable Me franchises, they had the trend to milk Alpha and Omega and later Norm of the North and Rock Dog for money with their poorly written and cheaply animated, direct-to video CGI sequels just to get a quick buck.
- Weak and unfunny humor in their non-theatrical feature films, with Dolphin Boy, Foodfight, and Norm of the North being the worst offenders.
- They have mostly made/produced or distributed bad movies, such as:
- Alpha and Omega sequels.
- The Barkers: Mind the Cats!
- Ghoster (2022) (Which happened to be a rip-off of the 1995 Casper film)
- Imaginary
- Jigsaw
- Spiral
- Rock Dog trilogy (with the third film being the worst offender).
- Birds Like Us (2017)
- Big Trip and Big Trip 2: Special Delivery
- Dirty Grandpa
- Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
- Hellboy (2019)
- Pinocchio: A True Story
- Joey and Ella
- Norm of the North and its sequels
- Expendables 4
- Borderlands
- The Crow (2024)
- Just like Crest/Streetlight Animation and Splash Entertainment, they don't know how to run their franchises properly, and they've done way too many sequels, including:
- Seven sequels to Alpha and Omega.
- Three sequels to Norm of the North.
- Two sequels to Rock Dog.
- Stunt casting: Some of their low-budget films often will feature big Hollywood stars. For example, Big Trip 2 includes Jesse McCartney (best known as Roxas and Ventus from Disney's Kingdom Hearts franchise) as Oscar.
- They delayed Borderlands, White Bird, The Unbreakable Boy to August 9, 2024, October 4, 2024, and February 21, 2025, respectively, which is way too long. The worst offender is The Unbreakable Boy.
- Speaking of The Unbreakable Boy, even though it's filming was finished back in December 13, 2020, Lionsgate has treated and badly marketed the film, even going as far as delaying the film to its current date without any warning, presumably just to make more money.
- After they acquired the entire library of The Weinstein Company, they began plastering their logo over Weinstein's, which is very disrespectful.
- Executive meddling:
- My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): Lionsgate forced Hasbro to send advertisements and TV spots across many channels, especially children's ones. But Hasbro instead showed more ads for the toys instead of the film. This led to the film underperforming at the box office, and for Lionsgate and Hasbro to part ways.
- Borderlands: The movie was originally supposed to receive an R rating but due to executive meddling, it got toned down to a PG-13, quite possibly being the entire reason the film is as bad as it is in the first place.
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- They uploaded some very out-of-place videos onto their YouTube channel, including:
- Two uploads of the White Bird trailer (both of which feature a different release date)
- A video featuring Marge Simpson from The Simpsons (which is actually owned by 20th Century Studios), made to promote Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Redeeming Qualities
- They used to be good from 1997 to 2012.
- They thankfully have many good and enjoyable films during their dark age, including
- My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
- Missing Link (as Lionsgate distributed the film in the United Kingdom)
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- Ordinary Angels
- The John Wick franchise
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Saw X (which saved the entire Saw franchise)
- Their new logo is pretty good.
- Additionally, they also brought back the 2005 logo in 2023.
- Let's not forget their only good studio for making good movies: Summit Entertainment.
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