Sony Photos Leisure introduced its annual leads to Tokyo on Friday. The movie and tv unit of large Sony Corp. revealed that working revenue for the yr ended March 31, 2026 fell 11% to $687 million from $763 million in greenback phrases, in comparison with the identical interval final yr. Gross sales for the fiscal yr had been primarily flat, at $9.92 billion from $9.90 billion.
The decline in working revenue was attributable to SPE’s closure of visible results and digital manufacturing firm Pixomondo. In March, the corporate revealed it was closing Pixomondo to concentrate on Vancouver-headquartered Sony Photos Imageworks, shifting manufacturing to a extra incentive-friendly Canada.
SPE’s annual revenue with out the Pixomondo impairment cost truly rose 11 p.c to $858 million.
Throughout the fiscal fourth quarter, SPE noticed its income enhance from the earlier quarter, from $197 million to $268 million. Fourth-quarter income elevated 31% to $3.01 billion from $2.30 billion within the third quarter.
SPE consists of the movie division, tv productions and media networks.
The theater unit (which incorporates theater, residence leisure and streaming gross sales) noticed its fiscal 2025 income decline 18%, from $4.01 billion to $3.28 billion. SPE launched 17 movies through the interval, together with Till Daybreak, Karate Child: Legends, Convey Her Again, Materialists, 28 Years Later, I Know What You Did Final Summer season, Caught Stealing, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Fortress, A Huge Daring Lovely Journey, Soul On Hearth, Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc, Nuremberg, Sisu: Street to Revenge, Anaconda, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Clika And GOAT.
The most effective performers of the interval had been Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’s Infinite Fortress ($354 million), GOAT ($183 million), 28 years later ($151 million) and Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc ($118 million).
Three of the movie’s prime 4 performers had been from animated movies – Demon Slayer, GOAT And Chainsaw man – as soon as once more reinforcing the corporate’s energy on this section in addition to the rising recognition of Japanese anime all over the world.
SPE’s TV unit noticed its income for fiscal 2025 attain $3.39 billion, up 12% from $3.03 billion the earlier fiscal yr. SPE’s tv productions from this era embrace these of Apple TV For all humanitythat of Netflix The Evening Agentthat of Starz Strangerthe one from Hulu Crimson eyes and that of Peacock Days of our lives.
Fiscal yr revenues from media networks (which embrace tv and digital channels) climbed 13 p.c, from $2.81 billion to $3.17 billion. The corporate revealed that it ended the monetary yr as of March 31, 2026 with 38 tv channels and 531.7 million complete subscribers.