Lionsgate (2013-present)

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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.

Lionsgate

The Weinstein Company 2.0

Type:	Public
Country:	United States
Predecessor:	Trimark Pictures FHE Pictures Artisan Entertainment Koch Entertainment Contender Entertainment Group Medusa Communications & Marketing Alliance Atlantis (Content catalogue library assets)
Founded:	July 10, 1997
Founder(s):	Frank Giustra
Headquarters:	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Key people:	Mark Rachesky (chairman) Jon Feltheimer (CEO) Michael Burns (vice-chairman)
Website:	https://www.lionsgate.com/

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%.

While they were good from 1997 to 2012, they have since gone downhill in 2013 due to milking the Alpha and Omega and Norm of the North franchises, releasing multiple bad films, and the change of the Lionsgate logo.

Why They Should Get Eaten By a Lion Now

Quantity Over Quality: Unlike Warner Bros., who only cares about theatrical films, Lionsgate only cares about milking too many films in one year, most of which either differ from: Either being films that you think were released this year, but came out years earlier (Sea Level 3: Dolphin Boy, The Barkers: Mind the Cats! and Birds Like Us being the worst offenders), live-action/animated films with bad CGI, or even outright rip-offs of other films.
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:
1. Alpha and Omega sequels.
2. The Barkers: Mind the Cats!
3. Ghoster (2022) (Which happened to be a rip-off of the 1995 Casper film)
4. Imaginary
5. Jigsaw
6. Spiral
7. Rock Dog trilogy (with the third film being the worst offender).
8. Birds Like Us (A film from 2017, that had Space Chimps and Hoodwinked Too!-styled animation)
9. Big Trip and Big Trip 2
10. Dirty Grandpa
11. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
12. Hellboy (2019)
13. Pinocchio: A True Story
14. Joey and Ella
15. Norm of the North and its sequels.
16. Expendables 4
17. Borderlands
18. 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:
1. Seven sequels to Alpha and Omega.
2. Three sequels to Norm of the North.
3. 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.
Executive meddling: Since late 2016, Lionsgate started doing this to their major non-Grindstone films. Including;
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The Unbreakable Boy: Lionsgate moved the film to its current release date in March 2022, without telling Jon Gunn, Jacob Laval, Zachary Levi, or even any of the other actors at all.
They uploaded some very out-of-place videos onto their YouTube channel, including:
1. Two uploads of White Bird (both of which feature a different release date)
2. 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.
Don't even get us started on their low-budget film studio, Grindstone Entertainment Group.

Redeeming Qualities

They used to be good from 1997 to 2012.
They thankfully have many good and enjoyable films during their dark age, including
1. My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
2. Missing Link (Lionsgate distributed the film in the United Kingdom)
3. Shaun the Sheep Movie
4. Ordinary Angels
5. The John Wick franchise
6. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
7. Saw X (which saved the entire Saw franchise)
Their new logo is pretty good.
1. 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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