Quoting TheMadMartian:
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As a side not, prior to, I believe 2006, they did, on a few occasions, use Lions Gate Films, but it wasn't the norm. For the most part, they just list 'Lionsgate'.
No, you're absolutly correct, the legal name of the company was "Lions Gate Films, Inc." (LGF); they identified themselves as "Lions Gate Films" in the main title credits (e.g. "Lions Gate Films presents"), and as "Lions Gate Home Entertainment" on the DVDs (often as spelled out logo).
At some point, after they bought Trimark and Artisan, they turned "Lions Gate Films, Inc." into a subsidiary of "Lions Gate Entertainment Corp." (today's parent company), but kept using the LGF and LGHE names.
End of 2005 they announced their rebranding to "Lionsgate" (effective 2006), introducing the still used one-word LIONSGATE logo. I've found a
short announcement from that period.
Since then movies open either with the new Lionsgate logo, or with the text "Lionsgate presents" – they also write of themselves as "Lionsgate" in the
corporate section of their website. The rebranding caused IMO one very ugly problem: they don't use separate names for their divisions anymore. Instead of "Lions Gate Home Entertainment" they print only the one-word logo on the DVD/BD cover, and they close their TV series with the same one-word logo instead of the former "Lions Gate Television".
To come back to Movieman's list, there are a few option we can clearly identify as incorrect, those would be:
* Lions Gate (never used, it can be "Lions Gate Films" or "Lions Gate Entertainment", otherwise it's incomplete)
* Lionsgate Entertainment (never used, the legal name of the parent company remains "Lions Gate Entertainment")
* Lionsgate Films (never used, it's either pre-2006 "Lions Gate Films" or post-2006 "Lionsgate")
In most cases correct should be:
* Lions Gate Films (all pre-2005 movies)
* Lions Gate Home Entertainment (all pre-2005 Home Ent. releases)
* Lions Gate Television (all pre-2005 TV productions)
* Lionsgate (all post-2006 movies)
Very problematic are "Lionsgate Home Entertainment" and "Lionsgate Television", as Lionsgate doesen't make a publicly identifiable difference between it's divisions anymore – they use always the same logo. To be precise, this is the same case as Paramount and Universal with their unspecific one-word logo. At least Universal finally uses the division name "Universal Studios Home Entertainment" under the logo, but older releases don't.
And "Lions Gate Entertainment" again would be the same case as "Warner Bros. Entertainment" (the legal entity of "Warner Bros. Pictures" and the parent company of "Warner Home Video") or "Universal Studios" (legal entity of "Universal Pictures" and "Universal Studios Home Entertainment").
Personally, in my local Db I use "Lionsgate Home Entertainment" and "Lionsgate Television", but I don't think it's contributable – at least not for now. I'm not sure how the Paramount/Universal problem was solved, as we do not enter the incomplete name from the logo, but the HE or TV division name...