Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF-A) S-8 POSRegistration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 13, 2020

Registration No. 333-122275

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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250 Howe Street, 20^th Floor

Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3R8

and

2700 Colorado Avenue

Santa Monica, California 90404
(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)

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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. 2004 Performance Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

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Adrian Kuzycz

Executive Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

2700 Colorado Avenue

Santa Monica, California 90404

(877) 848-3866

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.¨

EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-122275 (the “Registration Statement”) originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 25, 2005 which registered the offer and sale of 2,224,943 of the Registrant’s common shares issuable pursuant to the Registrant’s 2004 Performance Incentive Plan (without giving effect to any later stock splits or other events affecting the Registrant’s common shares). The Registrant is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to withdraw and remove any unissued and unsold securities issuable by the Registrant pursuant to the Registration Statement.

The Registrant has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes and withdraws from registration all such securities of the Registrant registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date this Post-Effective Amendment.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Monica, State of California, on May 13, 2020. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act.