Lionsgate Home Entertainment/Warning Screens

1st Warning (1981-1982)
Warning: On a background that's split in 2 sections, a stripe on the left, and white with  stripes on the right, we see a white "FBI" with the FBI seal below in the  area surrounded by 21  stars, and in the white-and--striped area we see "FBI WARNING" in  at the top and the "$250,000" warning below it. The result looks a bit like the American flag.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Ultra rare, as it's only known to appear on earlier prints of Deadly Games and Spacekeeters. However, a split second appears at the beginning of this video. For some reason, it doesn't appear on the 1982 VHS of A Gumby Adventure, Vol. 3.

2nd Warning (1982-1990)
Warning: We see a white outline box, with a white filled box with "Arial Black" in black. Below it is a black box, with the word "Arial Black" in, which blinks on and off, and below it is the following text in white:

Any commercial use or duplication of this copyright material without prior licensing is forbidden by federal law. Violators may be subject to cival and/or criminal penalties.

Variants:
 * Early tapes with this logo 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. The text above it says:

ANY COMMERCIAL USE OR DUPLICATION OF THIS COPYRIGHT MATERIAL WITHOUT PRIOR LICENSING IS FORBIDDEN BY FEDERAL LAW. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED. COPY. RIGHT ©1983.

Also, "WARNING" blinks 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 word "Arial Black" text is strangely deleted.
 * A still version of this was spotted on Monster Madness Volume 1.
 * A variant exists where the word "Arial Black" isn't blinking, the text is all set in Times New Roman font and fades in and out smoothly. This variant appeared on Palm Beach Entertainment releases.
 * On King Bee Video tapes, the word "Arial Black" isn't blinking, and the background is blue, except the box.

Technique: The word "Arial Black" 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.

Availability: This warning screen was first 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, among possible 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 '90s.

3rd Warning (October 6, 1988-2003?)
Warning: We see the word "WARNING" in, and in 3D. Below it is the warning text in white, and in italics.

Variants:
 * On some tapes, the top text is changed to "FBI WARNING".
 * Some IVE and Live Home Video releases, as well as Vidmark Entertainment releases, have a gap between the two sentences, as well as smoother text.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, though the first Vidmark releases to use this warning had the warning text read by a voiceover.

Availability: This warning screen is currently present on all late IVE, Live, Artisan, FHE, and Lionsgate releases. Also appears on later Vestron Video releases after Live Entertainment acquired Vestron. Also seen on Pioneer Entertainment, C/FP Video, Cineglobe Video, and Vidmark Entertainment releases as well. The warning appeared later on FHE releases in 1990 and on Baby Einstein VHS tapes from 2000 to 2002.

4th Warning (1999-2000)
Warning: On a black background, we see the text "INTERPOL WARNING" and the standard warning text below.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on reprints of Stickin' Around tapes (the ones that use the Lions Gate Home Entertainment logo with music from the Avalanche Home Entertainment logo in place of the Cinepix logo).

5th Warning (2003-2012)
Warning: We see the white text "WARNING" in a smaller font than in the 1988 screen, below it is the same text from the aforementioned screen.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on all Lionsgate Home Entertainment releases until late 2012, such as the 2006 DVD release of Employee of the Month, the 2007 DVD release The Invincible Iron Man, and the 2009 DVD release of My Bloody Valentine. French-language Lionsgate releases use the Astral Video warning screen instead. Starting in late 2012, Lionsgate used the FBI Anti-Piracy Warning screens from other studios.

(2011-present)
Warning: We see the warning text in a plain white Calibri Bold font.

Variant: Post-2019 releases have the text in a Helvetica Condensed font.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Current. Appears on all UK DVDs that were released by Lionsgate, and on some U.S. Blu-Rays as a hidden file. It's more common on more recent releases, such as Wonder, Fighting With My Family, The Hitman's Bodyguard, My Little Pony: The Movie, the third and fourth Hunger Games films and Valerian: the City of a Thousand Planets among others. Also seen on Ratchet & Clank, which is actually a Gramercy Pictures film.