Lionsgate (2013-present)
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 The company that has milked both the Alpha and Omega franchise and foreign and independent films to the point they have become the Activision Blizzard of film studios.
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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:
- Many modern-day Lionsgate films care more about making money than making good quality films, mostly focusing on releasing or distributing foreign and independent films.
- 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. Very recently, here is what they have done:
- Seven sequels to Alpha and Omega.
- Three sequels to Norm of the North.
- Two sequels to Rock Dog.
- They sometimes rush their films, mainly films from their partner Kingdom Story Company. With the worst examples being The Unbreakable Boy and White Bird.
- 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:
- Texas Chainsaw 3D (which began this era on a bad note)
- Alpha and Omega sequels
- The Barkers: Mind the Cats!
- Ghoster (2022) (Which happened to be a rip-off of the 1995 Casper film)
- Ratchet & Clank
- 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)
- 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, and Saw X to August 9, 2024, October 4, 2024, February 21, 2025, and September 26, 2025 respectively, which is way too long.
- After they acquired the entire library of The Weinstein Company, they began plastering their logo over Weinstein's, which is very disrespectful. Yes, we know Harvey Weinstein did some...questionable sexual things before the studio filed for bankruptcy, but still.
- 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.
- 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 due to both sharing two of the same crew members (James L. Brooks and Hans Zimmer (The Simpsons Movie) and the same production company (Gracie Films).
- They absorbed the American operations of Manga Entertainment before Sony acquired Manga Entertainment UK.
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) (even if it didn't age well)
- 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)
- White Bird
- Their logo they've used since 2013 is pretty good.
- Additionally, they also brought back the "Horror Variant" of the 2005 logo in 2023, for Saw X.
- Let's not forget their only good studio known for making good movies: Summit Entertainment.
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