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Spider-Man: Brand New Day lifts Sony Pictures Q2 sales 37 percent to $3.23 billion
A record-setting web-slinger sent theatrical revenue up 1,020 percent, while TV and PlayStation hardware went the other way.
A 1,020 percent jump at the box office
SPE's theatrical revenue jumped 1,020 percent in Q2, and anyone who follows Sony's film slate can guess the reason. [1] Sales across the whole of SPE rose 37 percent year-on-year to $3.23 billion. [1]
Adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortization rose to $670.4 million from $183 million in 2025. [2] Theatrical sales grew significantly, largely thanks to Spider-Man: Brand New Day. [2]
How Brand New Day broke records
Spider-Man: Brand New Day was released at the end of July and posted historic North American box office numbers. [2] It surpassed the three-day record set by Avengers: Endgame. [2]
Overseas, the film was the second-fastest to pass $1 billion at the international box office, trailing only Avengers: Endgame. [2] In August it became the highest-grossing Hollywood movie of all time in India. [2]
Brand New Day is now the third-highest grossing movie in history. [2]
What the movie division reported
Revenue of the motion pictures division grew 155 percent year-on-year to $1.82 billion in Q2, fueled by Brand New Day. [1] Other releases helped too. [1] Motion pictures revenue was also buoyed by Evil Dead Burn (international rights only), Insidious: Out of the Further and Resident Evil. [1]
Jumanji: Open World opens on Christmas Day, and SPE hopes it will perform well. [1]
Where television and networks slipped
Not every SPE unit grew. [1] The TV unit's revenue fell 31 percent to $483 million in Q2 from $701 million a year earlier. [1]
Second-quarter revenue from media networks fell 2 percent to $896 million from $913 million. [1] SPE ended the period with 38 television channels, and Crunchyroll had over 21 million paid subscribers as of March 2026. [1]
Music and PlayStation numbers
Sony Music Entertainment's Q2 revenue climbed to $3.72 billion (¥592.3 billion, up 11.25 percent from ¥532.4 billion a year earlier). [1] Across the group, Sony's Q2 operating income was 622.3 billion yen ($3.9 billion), an increase of 45%. [2]
Game & Network Services revenue rose 8.56 percent year-over-year to $7.59 billion in Q2. [1] PlayStation Network monthly active users reached 127 million, up 6.72 percent from 119 million. [1]
Console hardware moved the other way. [1] PlayStation 5 hardware sales were 2.6 million units in the period, down 36.43 percent from 4.09 million units a year earlier. [1] Cumulative PlayStation 5 hardware sales had reached 93.7 million as of March 31, 2026. [1]
In 2026 Sony's only new first-party video game title has been Marvel's Wolverine, which has sold 2.4 million units so far. [1]
What to watch next
If you follow Sony's film and games business, two dates and titles matter in these results. [1] Jumanji: Open World opens on Christmas Day, and SPE hopes it will perform well. [1]
Sony is positioned to benefit from expected hype around the release of Take-Two Interactive's Grand Theft Auto VI later this year. [1] Sony expects more financial gains from the game, which is set to release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox. [2]
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