--- title: "Spider-Man: Brand New Day lifts Sony Pictures Q2 sales 37 percent to $3.23 billion" description: "A record-setting web-slinger sent theatrical revenue up 1,020 percent, while TV and PlayStation hardware went the other way." url: https://tv-movies.skoop.news/sony-pictures-q2-profits-soars-to-581-million-due-to-8216-sp-bd9a88/ published: 2026-11-05T04:18:38.492188-05:00 modified: 2026-11-05T04:18:38.492197-05:00 section: "TV & Movies" publisher: "skoop.news" language: en keywords: ["SPE", "Brand New Day", "Christmas Day", "Open World", "Game & Network Services", "Grand Theft Auto VI", "Evil Dead Burn", "Avengers", "Spider-Man", "Crunchyroll"] hashtags: ["#BrandNewDay", "#ChristmasDay", "#OpenWorld", "#Movie", "#movieclips"] image: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Movie_set_of_Spider-Man_Brand_New_Day_%282025%29_%286%29.jpg/1280px-Movie_set_of_Spider-Man_Brand_New_Day_%282025%29_%286%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail --- # 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. Published 2026-11-05 · Updated 2026-11-05 · TV & Movies, [skoop.news](https://skoop.news/) ## In brief - SPE's theatrical revenue jumped 1,020 percent in Q2, and anyone who follows Sony's film slate can guess the reason. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) - Spider-Man: Brand New Day was released at the end of July and posted historic North American box office numbers. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) - Revenue of the motion pictures division grew 155 percent year-on-year to $1.82 billion in Q2, fueled by Brand New Day. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) ## 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]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Sales across the whole of SPE rose 37 percent year-on-year to $3.23 billion. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortization rose to $670.4 million from $183 million in 2025. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) Theatrical sales grew significantly, largely thanks to Spider-Man: Brand New Day. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) ## 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]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) It surpassed the three-day record set by Avengers: Endgame. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) Overseas, the film was the second-fastest to pass $1 billion at the international box office, trailing only Avengers: Endgame. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) In August it became the highest-grossing Hollywood movie of all time in India. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) Brand New Day is now the third-highest grossing movie in history. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) ## 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]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Other releases helped too. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Motion pictures revenue was also buoyed by Evil Dead Burn (international rights only), Insidious: Out of the Further and Resident Evil. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Jumanji: Open World opens on Christmas Day, and SPE hopes it will perform well. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) ## Where television and networks slipped Not every SPE unit grew. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) The TV unit's revenue fell 31 percent to $483 million in Q2 from $701 million a year earlier. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Second-quarter revenue from media networks fell 2 percent to $896 million from $913 million. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) SPE ended the period with 38 television channels, and Crunchyroll had over 21 million paid subscribers as of March 2026. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) ## 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]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Across the group, Sony's Q2 operating income was 622.3 billion yen ($3.9 billion), an increase of 45%. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) Game & Network Services revenue rose 8.56 percent year-over-year to $7.59 billion in Q2. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) PlayStation Network monthly active users reached 127 million, up 6.72 percent from 119 million. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Console hardware moved the other way. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) 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]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Cumulative PlayStation 5 hardware sales had reached 93.7 million as of March 31, 2026. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) 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]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) ## What to watch next If you follow Sony's film and games business, two dates and titles matter in these results. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Jumanji: Open World opens on Christmas Day, and SPE hopes it will perform well. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Sony is positioned to benefit from expected hype around the release of Take-Two Interactive's Grand Theft Auto VI later this year. [[1]](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) Sony expects more financial gains from the game, which is set to release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox. [[2]](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) ## Sources 1. [Sony Pictures Q2 Profits Soars to $581 Million Due to ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sony-pictures-q2-results-spiderman-brand-new-day-1236748325/) — The Hollywood Reporter 2. [‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Propels Sony Pictures To Huge Q2 Profit Boost](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-q2-earnings-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237214122/) — Deadline Image: Photo: S. Perquin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Movie_set_of_Spider-Man_Brand_New_Day_(2025)_(6).jpg) --- Written from the sources above and checked twice (rules and an independent model) before publishing. How we work: https://skoop.news/how-we-work/ · Corrections: https://skoop.news/corrections/