Lionsgate (2013-present)
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 The company that as milked the Alpha and Omega franchise to the point they have become the Activision Blizzard/Electronic Arts 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, domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Up until 2024, Lionsgate owned film and TV businesses under its own umbrella. They have since been spun off into Lionsgate Studios Corp, which Lionsgate owns 87%.
While they were good from 1997 to 2012, they have since went downhill in 2013 due to milking the Alpha and Omega and Norm of the North franchises and releasing multiple bad films, mainly from their Grindstone Entertainment Group label.
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 actually 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 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 (A film from 2017, that had Space Chimps and Hoodwinked Too!-styled animation)
- Big Trip and Big Trip 2
- 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 The Unbreakable Boy to February of 2025 for no reasons, which is WAY too long.
- They uploaded some very out-of-place videos onto their YouTube channel, including:
- Two uploads of White Bird (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.
- 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
- My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
- Missing Link (Lionsgate distributed the film in the United Kingdom)
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- Ordinary Angels
- The John Wick franchise
- Saw X (which saved the entire Saw franchise)
- Their new logo is pretty good.
- It's subsidiary: Summit Entertainment is still good.
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