Founded in Vancouver in 1997 and now run from Santa Monica, Lionsgate is a film and television studio whose home-video arm issues its own productions alongside acquired libraries such as Artisan, Trimark, Summit and eOne on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Its Vestron Video Collector's Series revisits cult and horror titles with new extras.
Lionsgate
121 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 94 in 4K26 in HD1 in SD10 more for audio only4 more announced
- Excellent38
- Solid28
- Good in DV Only1
- Disappointing3
- Worse Than BD6
Films where Lionsgate's release is the pick. How picks are made
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Films where Lionsgate's release is the pick. How picks are made
Director: Adrian Grünberg
US/UK Cut: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Germany Universum Film 4K Blu-ray
A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with both cuts and DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.
Director: Moritz Mohr
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Italy Plaion has Dolby Vision, but the metadata is static: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=22742198&postcount=92
Director: Mark Jones
Lionsgate US 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)
Original matrixed Ultra Stereo mix: Lionsgate 2014 US Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Lionsgate US 4K Blu-ray
Both 4K discs include a mono downmix instead of a proper stereo.
Original Lionsgate disc was encoded in incorrect colorspace and used a lossy->lossless transcode for the 5.1 mix.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
US Lionsgate or International Universal 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
US Lionsgate or International Universal 4K Blu-ray (similar encoding) - caps
US Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Directors: Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray in November
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Universal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Both come from a 4K scan of a 35mm film out which was made from the original 2K DI but the Lionsgate release has visible dust and damage marks while the Universal release is cleaned up more thoroughly. Both releases suffer from DNR which seems to have been baked into the DI. The colour grade is basically the same for both releases but the Lionsgate has Dolby Vision whereas the Universal is HDR10 only. The compression on the Lionsgate UHD base layer is apparently fine so the FEL doesn't make much of a difference.
The Lionsgate UHD has Dolby Atmos whereas the Universal UHD has DTS:X. Kick-ass was originally released with a 5.1 track which may be on the Universal Blu-ray.
The Lionsgate UHD is on a BD-100, the Universal UHD is on a BD-66.
The Universal UHD has no extras.
Director: Pete Travis
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has excessive DNR, Japan Blu-ray maybe better?
Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray disappointing, with burned in English subs
Director: David Twohy
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has terrible compression, but still beats out the old disc which was sourced from a mediocre old scan with edge enhancement, and which has compression issues of its own.
Original 5.1 mix: 1997 Pioneer LaserDisc or 1997 Live Entertainment NTSC DVD
Original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
The film originally premiered with two mixes, a 5.1 for upgraded theaters, and a distinct matrixed Dolby Stereo mix for older venues. The original 5.1 mix can only be found on the earliest LD/DVD releases, as all later releases replace it with a mediocre 7.1 mix with reduced dynamic range.
The Atmos mix is based off of the previous 7.1 remix, but with futher alterations as per director's wishes. One scene intentionally drops out into silence, see this post for details.
3 with a weaker 4K
Best 4K release rated Disappointing or Worse Than BD · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Pete Travis
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has excessive DNR, Japan Blu-ray maybe better?
Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray disappointing, with burned in English subs
Director: David Twohy
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has terrible compression, but still beats out the old disc which was sourced from a mediocre old scan with edge enhancement, and which has compression issues of its own.
Original 5.1 mix: 1997 Pioneer LaserDisc or 1997 Live Entertainment NTSC DVD
Original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
The film originally premiered with two mixes, a 5.1 for upgraded theaters, and a distinct matrixed Dolby Stereo mix for older venues. The original 5.1 mix can only be found on the earliest LD/DVD releases, as all later releases replace it with a mediocre 7.1 mix with reduced dynamic range.
The Atmos mix is based off of the previous 7.1 remix, but with futher alterations as per director's wishes. One scene intentionally drops out into silence, see this post for details.
6 for audio only
The best audio is Lionsgate's; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Lionsgate DVD for the original 5.1
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray
Director: Damien Chazelle
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray for the original Dolby Atmos mix
US Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray re-release announced with Dolby Vision, a new exclusive bonus, and the previously retailer pre-order bonus-exclusive/Hong Kong-exclusive bonus interviews in HD
Italy Eagle Pictures has DV, better encode, and no brightness shifts compared to Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Hong Kong Panorama 4K Blu-ray has two interviews available in HD that are SD everywhere else and only included as retailer-exclusive pre-order bonus DVDs with the US Blu-ray
Director: Jane Campion
2014 StudioCanal Blu-ray 5.1, 2012 Lionsgate Blu-ray 2.0
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Abel Ferrara
Arrow/Lionsgate 2.0
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
> Lionsgate Limited: https://slow.pics/c/04WP81j1
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Kino Lorber has 5.1, Lionsgate Blu-ray has 7.1, don't know which sounds better and closest to the theatrical mix.
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
But has AI upscaling on opticals, see caps
Director: Franc Roddam
US Cut with Chaz Jankel score: Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
3 announced
Lionsgate's release is announced; until it is out, the picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Paul King
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray minimal picture upgrade (2K upscale)
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray has good new Atmos mix
A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.
> StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal
Director: Peter MacDonald
A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.
> StudioCanal UK, better compression than StudioCanal but no forced subs on non-English dialogue
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