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Subsequent Events	3 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2023
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events	Subsequent Events On August 3, 2023, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., a corporation organized and existing under the corporate laws of British Columbia (the “Company”), and the Company’s subsidiaries, Lions Gate Entertainment Inc., a Delaware corporation (“LGEI”), and Lions Gate International Motion Pictures S.à.r.l., a Luxembourg société à responsabilité limitée (“LGIMP” and, with the Company and LGEI, collectively the “Buyers”), entered into an Equity Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Hasbro, Inc., a Rhode Island corporation (“Hasbro”), pursuant to which (following a contemplated pre-closing reorganization), the Buyers will acquire from Hasbro, upon the closing of the transactions contemplated under the Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase”), all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of the companies constituting the Entertainment One television and film (“eOne”) business for an aggregate cash purchase price of $375.0 million, subject to certain purchase price adjustments, including for cash, debt, transaction expenses and working capital, and the assumption by the Buyers of certain production financing indebtedness. The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations and warranties by each party with respect to itself, as well as various customary covenants and indemnification provisions and other agreements, including, among others, to run the business in the ordinary course during the period between the execution of the Purchase Agreement and closing of the Purchase (the “Closing”). The Closing is contingent on expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, approval under the Competition Act (Canada), the delivery by Hasbro to the Company of certain financial statements with respect to the eOne business and other customary closing conditions. The Purchase Agreement contains customary termination rights permitting each party to terminate the Purchase Agreement under certain specified circumstances, including if the Closing has not occurred on or before January 31, 2024.

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The entire disclosure for significant events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through the date the financial statements were issued or the date the financial statements were available to be issued. Examples include: the sale of a capital stock issue, purchase of a business, settlement of litigation, catastrophic loss, significant foreign exchange rate changes, loans to insiders or affiliates, and transactions not in the ordinary course of business.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 855
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122774

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 855
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6842918&loc=SL6314017-165662

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