Artisan Entertainment/Lionsgate Warning Screens

## United States of America and Canada

### 1980–1984

**Warning**: On a black background, we see a reddish-white box with another white box, reading "FBI," inside it. Next to it is "WARNING" and the warning text.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Extremely rare. Originally seen on Caballero Control Corporation Home Video porn releases, like the original VHS releases of *Sensations* and *Insatiable*. It was also seen on a Family Home Entertainment VHS of *Les Miserables*.

### 1981–1982

**Nickname**: "The USA Flag or The American Flag"

**Warning**: On a background that's split into 2 sections, a blue stripe on the left, and white with pink stripes on the right, we see a white "**FBI**" with the FBI seal below in the blue area surrounded by 21 gold stars, and in the white-and-pink-striped area we see "**FBI WARNING**" in red at the top and below is the "**$250,000**" warning. The result looks a little bit like an American flag.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Ultra rare, as it's only known to appear on earlier prints of *Deadly Games* and *Spacekeeters*.

### 1982–1990

**Nicknames**: "Blinking FBI", "The Headlight"

**Warning**: On a black background, we see a white outline box, with a white filled box with "**FBI**" in black. Below it is a black box, with the word "**WARNING**" in red, which blinks on and off, and below it is the Warning text in white.

**Variants**:

* On some releases, the warning fading in from black rather than cutting from black.
* Early tapes with this warning had slightly different warning text that was capped off with the copyright year and was in all caps. It's also more compressed to make room for "**CABALLERO CONTROL CORPORATION**" at the bottom of the black box. Also, "**WARNING**" blinked at a faster rate and by the time the screen fades to black, it had blinked 23 times.
* On U.S.A. Home Video releases, the warning screen splits into quarters, which exit to all four sides of the screen. It then segues into the U.S.A. Home Video logo.
* Later Monterey tapes with this warning screen had this split in half at the end and the two halves move toward the left and right edges of the screen to make room for the Monterey Home Video logo.
* On some prints of *I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings*, the red "WARNING" text is strangely deleted.
* A still version of this was spotted on *Monster Madness Volume 1*.
* A variant exists where the red "**WARNING**" text isn't blinking, the text is all set in Times New Roman font and fades in and out smoothly. That variant appeared on Palm Beach Entertainment releases.
* On Camp Video releases, the background is grey with a white bar (a la the Castle Hendring, New World Pictures and Orion Pictures logos), the warning text is black, the word "**WARNING**" changes colors and the word "**FBI**" is red.
* On Celebrity Home Entertainment releases, the words "**FBI** **WARNING**" is red and in drop shadow, mentioned above and all in capitals.
* On non-Elvira-hosted ThrillerVideo releases, the screen flips with the red border to the aforementioned logo.

**FX/SFX**: "**WARNING**" blinking.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Music/Sounds Variants**:

* On the U.S.A. Home Video variant, after 7 seconds of silence we hear a loud synthesizer blare that segues into the U.S.A. Home Video logo theme.
* On Magnum Entertainment releases, the first second of the logo theme begins at this warning's final second.
* On Elvira-hosted ThrillerVideo releases, Elvira's into theme begins over the warning.
* On non-Elvira-hosted ThrillerVideo tapes such as *Murder Motel*, the logo music (also heard on Sybil Danning's Adventure Video tapes) begins over the warning.

**Availability**: This warning screen was mainly seen on most FHE/USA/IVE releases from 1983-1988. It has also appeared on various other companies' tapes too, some of them not affiliated with IVE, FHE, or USA (i.e: Tenth Avenue Video, Magnum Entertainment, V.E.C., VCA Pictures, and Classic Family Entertainment). The warning remained on FHE releases until 1990 and can also be seen on early King Bee tapes. It is also seen on tapes from Caballero, especially the earlier variant, which can also be seen on the Monterey Home Video release of *Deadly Games*, and presumably others. However, later prints have the normal version instead. The variant with the Times New Roman font appeared on Palm Beach Entertainment releases from the mid-Nineties. The screen makes a surprise appearance on the 1998 VHS of *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, paired with the U.S.A. Home Video logo followed by the Artisan Entertainment logo of the time.

### 1984-1993

**Warning**: Same as the 1982-2004 Columbia TriStar Home Video/Entertainment warning.

**Variants**:

* On some releases from 1988, such as *Killing Cars*, the background is solid blue, the text is in italics, the FBI seal is removed, and the "FBI WARNING" text is in pink.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: The Vidmark variant is seen on early Vidmark Entertainment releases. This, along with the first Vidmark logo, is shown twice at both ends of the preview(s) on any Vidmark title with them, such as *Midnight* and *Enormous Changes*. The 1988 variant is retained on a 1991 Starmaker reissue of *Ike*.

### October 6, 1988–November 6, 2012

**Warning**: On a black background, we see the word "WARNING" in red, and in 3D. Below it is the warning text in white, and in italics.

**Variants**:

* On some tapes, "**FBI**" appears before "**WARNING**".
* Some IVE and Live Home Video releases, as well as Vidmark Entertainment releases, have a gap between two sentences, as well as smoother text.
* On Lionsgate releases from 2003 to late 2012, as well as the 2004 Artisan DVD of *The Last Unicorn*, the word "**WARNING**" is in white and in the same size as the warning text, which is now smaller.
* On the Artisan DVDs of *Stephen King's The Stand* and *Suicide Kings*, the text is in a different font.
* The 2003 Extreme Edition DVD of *Terminator 2: Judgement Day* has the whole text in 2D.
	+ Disc 2 places this variant over a blue electric field.
* The 2006 Blu-ray of *Terminator 2* has the warning appear over a background of Terminator.
* The 2006 Blu-ray of *Total Recall* has the warning appear over a scene of Douglas Quaid.
* The 2008 Blu-ray of *The Eye* has the warning appear over Sydney Wells.
* At the end of some Lionsgate Blu-ray releases and Magnolia Home Entertainment releases, the text is in a different font. Titles with this variant include *Two Lovers*, *Boarding Gate*, *Julia*, *Graduation*, *Finding Amanda*, *Black Death*, *Outlaw*, *Kiltro*, *V/H/S*, *Centurion*, and *The Good Doctor* (on which it last appeared), among others. This variant also appeared on the 2011 Lionsgate DVDs of *Care Bears: Flower Power* and *The Lincoln Lawyer* (rental-only; the retail equivalent has the standard version).
* On the 1990 IVE VHS of *Sweetie* and the first FHE DVD volume of *Speed Racer*, the warning cuts in and fades out.
* Conversely, on the 1993 Live VHS of *The Crying Game*, the warning fades in and cuts out.
* On the Artisan DVDs of *Hot Boyz* and *Drop Dead Fred*, the warning is brighter and more color-saturated than usual.
* On current MTI Home Video releases, the 1988 warning screen's text is rearranged.

**FX/SFX**: None, unless you count the fade-in and fade-out.

**Music/Sounds**: None usually.

**Music/Sounds Variants**:

* On Live Descriptive Video Service VHS tapes containing the warning, a narrator reads out the text save for the parentheses portion. Examples of this are Wendie Sakakeeny on *Basic Instinct*, Kria Sakakeeny on *Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer*, Frances Kelley on *Frosty the Snowman*, Nick Mills on *Chaplin*, and Margot Stage on *The Piano*.
* On the 1989 VHS of *Phantom of Death*, a male voiceover reads out the warning text save for the parentheses portion.
* On the 1992 screener tape of *Waxwork II: Lost in Time*, the music from the subsequent screener promo begins over it.

**Availability**: Very common.

* This warning screen first appeared on *Rambo III*, and appears on all subsequent IVE, Live, Artisan, Vidmark, FHE, and Lionsgate releases.
* Also appears on later Vestron Video releases after Live Entertainment acquired Vestron, and on tapes from Pioneer Entertainment and Vidmark Entertainment as well. The warning also appeared on *Baby Einstein* VHS tapes from 2000-02, as the series was distributed by FHE in that period.
* Other DVDs that feature this include *Employee of the Month*, *The Invincible Iron Man*, *Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man*, and both versions of *My Bloody Valentine*.
* Don't look for a French version of this warning on French-language Lionsgate releases, because they use the Astral Video warning screen instead.
* The Lionsgate variant makes a surprise appearance on DVD and VHS releases packaged with toys from Play Along Toys (such as the *Teletubbies: It's Time to...* tapes and the rare promotional DVD of *SpongeBob SquarePants: Something Smells*).
* On Magnolia releases, the 2001 variant appears on *Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room* (the first Magnolia release), *Bubble*, *District B13*, *Only Human*, and *The Signal*, among others.
* On Lionsgate releases, the original variant was only ever used on the VHS of *The Regans* and the DVD of *Dracula 3000*, both released in 2004.
* The 2001 variant also appears on the 2007 SJPL Films Limited DVD of *Pitch People* and the 2011 Inception Media Group, LLC DVD of *The Dead and the Damned*.
* The original variant was also seen on a Hen's Tooth Video DVD of *Marlo Thomas & Friends: Free to Be... You and Me*, a 2000 (possibly bootleg) Vanguard DVD of *Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade*, a Black Belt Magazine VHS of *Kobudo-Sai: Karate Weapon of Self Defense*, and an Integrity Music Just for Kids VHS of *The Donut Man: Camp Harmony*.

### May 11–July 20, 1989

**Warning**: Against a blue background, we see a white box outlined in black. The left half contains a black box with "FBI" and, to the right, warning text.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Exclusive to IVE VHS releases under the King Bee Video label. However, this could be considered incredibly rare, since two other King Bee releases from 1989, *The Creeper* and *Consenting Adult*, use the 1982 warning instead.

### June 17, 1997-2006

Canadian warning scroll**Warning**: Same as the Canadian Warner Home Video warning scroll, except the background is dark red-pink gradient and the text is slightly thinner.

**Variants**:

* On few Artisan DVDs such as *Pre-Hibernation Week (1999)*, *Akira,* *The Mikado (TV Movie 1973),* and *Rock N Roll Animals*, as well of Sony Music Video DVDs, the Lyrick/HiT Entertainment interpol warning text is used and can't scroll.
* On the 2003 Extreme Edition DVD of *Terminator 2: Judgement Day*, the text is in a different font and does not scroll, no French translation is used, and the background differs by disc as well:
	+ Disc 1: An orange-black gradient that runs in a different direction
	+ Disc 2: The same electric field as the Disc 2 variant of the second warning.

**FX/SFX**: The text scrolling.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen at the end of all Live and a lot of Artisan DVDs such as *Cutthroat Island*, *Critical Care*, the original releases of *The Return of the Pink Panther* and *Capricorn One*, *L.A. Story*, *Basic Instinct*, *Bad Lieutenant*, *Dark Command*, *The Doors*, *Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Ultimate Edition*, *The Stand*, *Wishmaster*, *Made*, *The Center of the World*, *The Quiet Man*, *Jesus of Nazareth*, *Red 5 Returns (1998)*, *Boat Trip*, *Noah's Ark (1999)*, *Merlin*, *Pi*, *Suicide Kings*, *Hamburger Hill*, the first volume of *Speed Racer*, *Joan of Arc (1999)*, *Startup.com*, *Dragon Storm (1999)*, *Tamagotchi: Video Adventures*, *The Boys from Brazil*, *The Miracle Maker: The Story of Jesus*, *Lock Up*, *Dr. T and the Women*, *Knight Moves*, *The Grass is Greener*, *Requiem for a Dream*, *Jark Idiots*, *High Noon*, *Cujo*, *Permanent Midnight*, *The Langoliers*, *The Jazz Singer (1980)*, *Drop Dead Fred*, and *Pokemon King of Orange Island*. It was also used on some Lionsgate DVDs, such as *Saw* *Redneck Comedy Roundup*, *The Punisher (2004)*, *The Off Season*, *High Tension Unrated*, the Ultimate Editions of the first three *Rambo* movies, the Special Editions of *Red Heat* and *Universal Soldier*, also last appeared on DVDs such as *Angry Birds (2002)*, *Totally Tooned in*, *Rams my Rams*, *Elmo's Easy As ABC* in 2006 and the 2005 UMDs of *Terminator 2: Judgment Day* and *High Tension*. it isn't appear on *Out of Sync*, *Dummy*, *Joshua*, the original release of *The Last Unicorn*, and *Bluehill Avenue*, (which only show one warning screen).

### 1997–August 29, 2006

**Warning**: Same as the enhanced variant of the 1980-2005 Universal Studios Home Video warning, but it was more enhanced.

**Variant**: On the 1998 DVD of *Death Wish V: The Face of Death*, the DVD variant is used.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on certain Trimark and Lions Gate VHS releases, such as *Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights*, *Akeelah and the Bee*, *Saw*, *Sometimes They Come Back for More*, and *Beyond the Sea*. On DVD, it appears on *All of Me*. It also appeared on later Avalanche Home Entertainment releases like *The Pact* and *Nowhere to Hide*, and later Studio Home Entertainment releases like *Spanish Judges*.

### 1997–Early 2000s

Opening To The Shadow Riders 1998 DVD**Warning**: On a black background, we see the red word "WARNING" followed by standard warning text. This is almost the same as the 1990 MGM/UA Home Video and MGM Home Entertainment warning screen and the 1991-2008 New Line Home Video/Entertainment warning.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Variants**: On DVD releases from Early 2000s, the text is rearranged.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on early Trimark Home Video DVD releases, such as the 1998 DVD release of *The Shadow Riders*.

**Editor's Note**: Please notice that the word "unauthorized" is missing, just like New Video, Cinedigm and Screen Media Films' warnings.

### 1997-October 27, 2009

Opening to La Femme Nikita DVD (1997)**Warning**: Same as the original version of the second Xenon Pictures warning.

**Variants**:

* On the 1997 Trimark DVD of *La Femme Nikita,* 1997-1999 Funimation Entertainment releases (also on Lionsgate reprints), and *Natural Born Killers: Director's Cut*, the Pioneer/Geneon warning is used.
* A blue background variant exists on 1998-2001 Avalanche Home Entertainment releases.
* On the 2009 DVD of the TV-movie remake of *Angel and the Badman*, the warning screen is rearranged, this time with the text in a different font and the seal being updated to its Anti-Piracy variant.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: The first variant can be seen on the 2003 DVD of *Secretary*.

### 1997-2010

Double feature Dvd opening -1Opening To Cabin Fever 2004 DVD (2011 Reprint)**Warning**: Almost the same as the enhanced variant of the 1980-2005 Universal Studios Home Video warning, but the white warning text is in the center and in Helvetica Bold, “DVD” replaces "videodisc" and “disc”, and the word "WARNING" is in Helvetica Black.

**Variants**:

* On some releases, "**WARNING**" and the text below are in Univers font.
	+ A Canadian variant exists, where the warning text is capitalized, “in” is replaced with “ON”, and the "Title 17, US Code, Sections 501 and 506" version is replaced by the Canadian Bureau Film and Video Security Office with phone number 1. This can be spotted on some Region 1 Universal DVDs if the language is set to French, all DVD releases from Alliance and early Alliance Atlantis DVDs such as Good Will Hunting and Sling Blade, among others. (Alliance Atlantis started using their own warning in 2001.) It also appeared on some HBO DVDs, as well as American Bandai DVDs such as all volumes of The Big O and Blue Submarine No. 6.
* A Spanish translation exists. It only appeared on U.S. Spanish releases at the time period.
* In rare cases, especially on 2003-04 Lionsgate DVDs and 2003-07 Shout! Factory DVDs, "**FBI**" appeared next to "**WARNING**" and both texts appear in a font that looks similar to Times New Roman.
	+ A variant of this exists for Morgan Creek DVDs, without "FBI." This can be spotted on the 1998-2000 Morgan Creek/Warner Home Video DVD releases of *Wrongfully Accused*, *Major League: Back to the Minors*, and *Chill Factor*.
* On the 1998 Trimark DVD of *Mean Guns*, the text is in Arial and there's a drop shadow behind "WARNING", much like on the 1990 MGM/UA Home Video and MGM Home Entertainment warning.
* On Trimark/Lionsgate DVDs such as *All of Me*, *Stephen King's Storm of the Century*, *Frank and Jessie*, *The Best of Times*, *Going Overboard*, and *Deeply*, Viz Video DVDs and some HBO DVDs until 2020, use the DVD version of the original Universal Studios Home Video warning.
	+ On the Canadian copy of the 2001 DVD of Tick Tock!, the DVD/laserdisc version of the 1980 Universal Pictures Home Entertainment warning screen, except the word "WARNING" and the warning text are in Franklin Gothic!
* On a 1999 Trimark DVDs such as *Fight Skull (1991)* and *Christmas Eve On Sesame Street*, and the 2002 Lionsgate DVDs of *Pokemon Johto League Champions Volumes* *1 & 2*, "**WARNING"** is in Matrix II Bold Narrow instead.
* On the 2000 Trimark DVD of *Hercules in New York*, the PBS Distribution warning is used.
* On the 2000 Trimark DVD of *Kids* and the 2001 Lions Gate Home Entertainment DVD of *Amores Perros*, the text is positioned on the left. This variant also appears on DVDs from Retropolis Entertainment (the direct precursor to Shout! Factory) and the 2003 Capitol Records DVD of *Coldplay: Live 2003*.
* On a few DVDs, such as *Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars*, *Santa's Slay*, *Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites*, *5ive Days to Midnight*, *Mew Mew Power - The Main Mew's Party*, *ALF Animated Adventures: 20,000 Years in Driving School*, and *Love Hurts*, the DreamWorks warning is used instead.
* On the Lionsgate DVDs such as *Digimon Special Edition Volumes*, and the 2008 Viz Media DVD release of *Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai*, the 4Kids Entertainment warning is used.
* On the 2006 Lionsgate DVD such as *Hope and Faith*, the Laura Music Advanced warning is used,

**FX/SFX**: None usually, but on the 2003 Lionsgate reissue of *Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler and Pokemon Johto League Champions Volumes*, the warning fades in and out.

**Music/Sounds**: None usually, but on all three discs of *Mr. Bill's Disasterpiece Theater Definitive Collection*, an orchestral fanfare is heard.

**Availability**:

* Seen on some Trimark and Lionsgate DVDs, such as *Happiness*, *Sprung*, *The Big Easy*, *Cube*, *Inferno*, *Eye of the Killer*, *100 Girls*, *Lantana*, *Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell*, *Fangs (2002)*, *The Cat's Meow*, *Rent A Cop*, *Man-Thing*, *Rose Red*, *The Base 2: Guilty As Charged*, *The Long Ride Home*, *Sweet Sixteen*, *Crocodile 2: Death Swamp*, *The Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer*, the first two seasons of *The Dead Zone*, and *The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men! VOLUME 1 & 2*.
* It was also seen on Anchor Bay and Starz DVDs from the late 2000s to the early to mid 2010s along with HBO DVDs from 1998 until 2019, as well as Bandai and Shout! Factory DVDs from the early-to-mid 2000s, the 2006 NuTech Digital DVD of *Who Wanna Battle?*, the 2013 Green Apple Entertainment DVD of *3 Geezers!*, and the 2004 Highland Entertainment DVD of *Unlocking DaVinci's Code: Mystery or Conspiracy?* and also appeared on Viz Video DVD 2004-05 reprints of early *Pokemon* DVDs such as *The Sisters of Cerulean City*, *Fashion Victims, The Great Race, Wake up Snorlax* and *Water Blast*.

### 1998-2005

**Warning**: Same as the 1991 Walt Disney Home Entertainment warning.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Appeared after pressing the PLAY MOVIE button on the Artisan Entertainment DVD releases of *Total Recall*, *The Center of the World*, *Cujo*, *Startup.com*, *The Quiet Man*, *Permanent Midnight*, *The Langoliers*, and the Lions Gate DVDs of *Saw*, *Sometimes They Come Back for More*, *House of D*, *Cape Fear (1991)*, and *Secretary*. It does not appear on the 2002 Republic/Artisan DVDs of *High Noon* and *Rio Grande*, which were respectively a Warner Home Video and Republic Pictures Video and contained their own warnings instead. It also does not appear on the 2005 Lions Gate DVD release of *Mew Mew Power - The Main Mews Party*, which contains the Columbia-TriStar Home Video/Entertainment DVD warning screens instead.

### 1998–April 20, 2004

**Warning**: Same as the 1993-2002 PolyGram Video warning, except the text was in a different font.

**Variant**: Later releases have it zoomed in.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Originally appeared at the start of VHS tapes released under the Sterling Home Entertainment and Studio Home Entertainment labels, like *Protector*, *Southie* and *Silent Witness*. This was later adopted for use by Lions Gate itself, and can be seen at the start of the VHS releases of *Komodo*, *The Pool*, *Wendigo* and *Guilty by Association*, at the start of the DVD releases of *Rescue Heroes: The Movie*, *Girl with a Pearl Earring* and *Godsend*, and at the end of both discs of the 2003-04 DVDs of *On Golden Pond* and *King of New York*.

### April 27, 1999-August 28, 2001

**Warning**: On a black background, we see an orange box with "FBI" on the left side, with the letters stacked upon one another. Warning text is on the right, and an orange line separates the two.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on the Trimark DVDs of *Ground Control*, *Lulu on the Bridge*, *Heaven's Burning*, *Dragon Ball: The Saga of Goku Vol. 1 & 2*, *Spy Games*, *Christy: A Change of Seasons*, *Christy: A New Beginning*, and the 2001 DiC/Lions Gate DVDs of *Sabrina, The Animated Series - Sabrina's World* and *Mummies Alive!*. Also appears on the 2000 Digital Versatile Disc, Ltd. DVD of *Last of the Mohicans*, the 2000 Ventura Distribution DVD of *The Brotherhood*, and the 2001 Studio Home Entertainment DVD of *The Base 2: Guilty as Charged*.

### September 21, 1999

**Warning**: Same as the first Echo Bridge Home Entertainment warning.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on the 1999 DVD release of *Cyborg 2*.

### 1999-2005

**Warning**: Same as the 1997-2005 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment warnings.

**Variant**: On the first two seasons of *ALF*, the black background is used, except the seal is larger and the text is Helvetica.

**FX/SFX**: Same as the respective warnings.

**Trivia**: This warning makes a cameo appearance during the main menu on disc four of *ALF: Season One* (but only on the first runthrough of the menu), in which the titular character (played by Paul Fusco) phones Lions Gate's legal department complaining that the set doesn't contain enough FBI warnings. They comply, and this appears for four seconds.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**:

* Seen at the end after the Sony Pictures DVD Center logo on the Artisan DVDs of *Foolish*, *The Limey*, *Animal Farm*, and *Arabian Nights*. it appeared at the beginning on the 2005 Lionsgate Home Entertainment DVD release of Mew Mew Power - The Main Mew's Party, the black background version appears on the first two seasons of *ALF*.
* and appeared on Viz Video DVDs such as *Pokemon - The Birth of Pikachu* among with other titles It also appears on Columbia TriStar Home Video/Entertainment releases of Viz Video content from 1999 until 2005.

### November 9, 1999

**Warning**: Same as the 1995-1996 Elite Entertainment warning.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on the DVD of *Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers*.

### 2000

**Warning**: Same as the 1987 Cinema Group Home Video warning.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on a 1999 Artisan VHS reissue of *Capricorn One*.

### 1999-2000

**Warning**: On a black background, we see the text "**INTERPOL** **WARNING**" and the standard warning text below.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on the reprints of *Stickin' Around* VHS tapes that use the Lions Gate Home Entertainment logo with the music from the Avalanche Home Entertainment logo in place of the Cinepix Film Distribution logo.

### February 29-April 25, 2000

**Warning**: On an orange-dark red gradient background, we see a white bar with "FBI WARNING" in it, and yellow warning text underneath.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on the DVDs of *Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin*, *Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Rock*, and *Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley*.

### 2001

**Warning**: On a hazy green background, we see a red "FBI WARNING" and white warning text below.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on the 2000 DVD of *Family of Cops III*.

### March 4, 2003

**Warning**: Same as the 1999 solid blue background version of Viz Video/Big Idea warning.

**FX/SFX**: The fading.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Seen on the 2003 DVD of *Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie*.

### September 6, 2005-present

**Warning**: Same as the "oval" variant of the 2001 Alliance Atlantis warning.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: This warning first appeared on a 2005 Canadian Lionsgate DVD release of *Crash*. It was also seen on a US Lionsgate DVD of *National Lampoon's Golf Punks*.

### 2009

**Warning**: On a black background with Lionsgate logos (a la the 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment and MPI Home Video warnings), we see the strange word "**WARNING**" and the white warning text.

**FX/SFX**: None.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Common. It appears on a lot of Lionsgate Blu-rays, such as the 2011 Blu-rays of *Pulp Fiction* and *Warrior*. Until 2012, this was the only warning seen on the disc.

### 2012-present

**Warning**: Same as the other companies' FBI anti-piracy warning screens at the time.

**Variants**:

* *The Hunger Games* sequels use a custom variant, with an alternate font for the text and a red (*Catching Fire*) or blue (*Mockingjay*) background.
* *Ender's Game* also uses a custom variant, with a different font for the text and a custom background.
* On the 2014-15 DVDs of *Obvious Child* and *The Duff*, the screens are in reverse order.

**FX/SFX**: None, except for a fade-in and fade-out on Blu-rays and most DVDs.

**Music/Sounds**: None.

**Availability**: Current. Seen on most newer Lionsgate DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, as well as UHD Blu-rays. Starting with *Fear of Rain*, these screens appear at the end. (*Vanquish*, *Siberia*, *Habit*, *Finding You*, and *Joey & Ella: A Kangaroo Tail*, however, still use these screens at the beginning.) It was also moved to the end of the release on the 2014 Blu-ray of *Draft Day*, rather than appearing at the beginning.