What if Lionsgate was founded in the early 20th Century?

## Changes

* It would've been two separate companies before being merged in 1942?
	+ For Royal Lions Pictures, It would've been founded in 1923 by Leonard Collin (1895-1966) and his wife Lana Allegri (1898-1974)
	+ For Gate Film Corporation, It would've been founded by Ralph Guild (1892-1974) in 1912 in Toronto.
	+ Both studios would've merged to form Royal Lions-Gate Film Corporation in 1942.
* Before another merger in 1965, there would've been another separate one
	+ Summit Entertainment would've been founded in 1955 by Samuel Malone (1922-2016) as Summit Productions, a television production company.
* It could be the first Canadian company to join the mini-majors in 1972 and, later, the Majors in 2003 when it merged with eOne.

## Logo evolution

### Gate Film Corporation

The studio was founded by Ralph Guild in January 1912 as a mini-major to compete with the other and later smaller studios, such as Universal, Kalem, Reliance, and NYP.

### Royal Lions Pictures

In 1923, Royal Lions Publishing, made a venture with the married couple (Leonard Collin and Lana Allegri) to form Royal Lions Pictures.

### Royal Lions-Gate

Royal Lions Publishing acquired Gate Film Corporation, thus merging them to form Royal Lions-Gate Film Corporation, thus, RLP took control of 100% of the share used by the founders.

### Lions Gate-Summit

Due to the acquisition of Royal Lions Publishing in 1965, WGN Corporation sold off RLG Film Corporation to Summit Productions, merging the two to form Lions Gate-Summit Film Corporation.

### Lionsgate Films

In 1975, Capital Cable acquired LGS Film Corporation, thus beginning to punch out the studio's biggest enemy, cost problems. To make more money and to keep track of the studio, in 1977, CC removed Summit from the name and renamed it as Lions Gate Films, while it's television division was renamed to Lions Gate Television.

#### 1977 logo

On a black background, several stars join together at the right of the screen to form the constellation of the lion. As this happens, a stylized white drawing of a lion standing on its hind legs and looking to the right (in a heraldic "lion rampant" pose) fades in. "LIONS GATE" fades in the Bernhard Modern typeface, then "FILMS" and "A SHAW COMPANY".

#### 1992 logo

Against a dark blue starfield background, several stars swirl around to form the lion logo from before, which zooms out. Some more stars that turn from white to gold zoom out and arrange themselves on the logo, and the words "LIONS GATE FILMS" (with "GATE" in Garamond) flash in at the top right of the lion. A burst of light wipes in a white line with the byline "A SHAW COMPANY" underneath it. The words sparkle a bit.

#### 2001 logo

On a black background, the words "LIONS GATE FILMS" fly in one by one away from the viewer, with stars moving into place while a lion fades in. After that the logo shines. Bylines include "A Shaw Company" (2001-2004) and "A Division of WGN Lions Gate" (2004-2006).

#### 2005 logo

On Christmas Day 2004, following the box office success of *Fairytopia* (2004) and the merger between Shaw and Emerson Electric, Family Home Entertainment founder Noel C. Bloom decided to make a new logo. A respelling could change from two (Lions Gate) to one (Lionsgate) so that the studio can compete with the other major studios largely, due to becoming Canada's largest studio.

The on-screen logo debuted on *Fairytopia: Mermadia* on November 25, 2005 (although the 1977 print logo remained on posters until May 2006).

Open matte widescreen version seen on all Fairytopia media starting with Mermadia (2006)

### 2017 logo

Lionsgate should use the Studio L logo, with the Constellation remaining. Also, the text from the 2005 and 2013 logos should be placed in front of the Constellation.

It should use the Studio L fanfare.

The 75th Anniversary variant should appear on all Lionsgate media in 2017, while the standard variant should appear in post-2017 Lionsgate media.

75 Years variant