---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000046080-24-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HAS"
cik: "0000046080"
company_name: "HASBRO, INC."
filed_at: "2024-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T04:55:51.037530+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hasbro completes eOne film/TV sale to Lionsgate for $375M; to retire $400M debt

## Summary
- Sale of eOne film/TV business to Lionsgate closed Dec 27, 2023 for $375M cash plus assumption of production loans.
- Proceeds expected to retire approx $400M of floating rate debt.
- Recorded $473M pre-tax non-cash loss on assets held for sale in Q3 2023.
- Hasbro retains entertainment development for its core brands under Blueprint 2.0.
- J.P. Morgan and Centerview Partners served as lead financial advisors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000046080-24-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HAS
- cik: 0000046080
- company_name: HASBRO, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46080/000004608024000005/0000046080-24-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46080/000004608024000005/has-20231227.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000046080-24-000005
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000046080-24-000005.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  HASBRO, INC. completed a disposition involving Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. and Lions Gate International Motion Pictures S.à.r.l) for $375 million in cash (closed 2023-12-27).
  - Action: disposition
  - Counterparty: Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. and Lions Gate International Motion Pictures S.à.r.l)
  - Consideration: $375 million in cash
  - Closing: 2023-12-27
  source text: International Motion Pictures S.à.r.l., a Luxembourg société à responsabilité limitée (“LGMP” and, together with LGEC and LGEI, “Lionsgate”), for a purchase price consisting of $375 million in cash, subject to purchase price adjustments, plus the assumption by Lionsgate of production financing loans (the “Transaction”). Hasbro intends to use the cash proceeds to
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46080/000004608024000005/0000046080-24-000005-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.