Sony Pictures Entertainment reported its full-year results in Tokyo on Friday. Giant Sony’s film and television unit revealed that operating income for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 fell by 11 percent to $687 million from $763 million in dollar terms, compared to the same period last year. Sales for the fiscal year were essentially flat at $9.92 billion from $9.90 billion.
The decrease in operating income was due to the closure of visual effects company SPE and virtual production company Pixomondo. In March, the company revealed it was shutting down Pixomondo to focus on Vancouver-based Sony Pictures Imageworks, shifting production to a more incentive-friendly Canada.
SPE’s fiscal year profit without impairment charges at Pixomondo rose 11 percent to $858 million.
In its fiscal fourth quarter, SPE saw income increase sequentially, rising 36 percent to $268 million from $197 million. Fourth-quarter revenue rose 31 percent to $3.01 billion from $2.30 billion from the third quarter.
SPE includes the Motion Picture, Television Production and Media Networks division.
The motion picture unit (which includes sales from theatrical, home entertainment and streaming sales) saw fiscal 2025 revenue decline 18 percent to $3.28 billion from $4.01 billion. SPE released 17 films in this period, including Until Dawn, The Karate Kid: Legends, Bring It Back, The Materialists, 28 Years Later, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Caught Stealing, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’s Infinite Castle, Big Daring Beautiful Journey, Burning Soul, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Rez Arc, Nuremberg, Seisu: Road to Vengeance, Anaconda, 28 Years Later: Temple of Bones, Klika and A goat.
It was the best performance in this period Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle ($354 million) A goat ($183 million) After 28 years ($151 million) and Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc ($118 million).
Three of the four best cartoon artists – Demon Slayer, A goat and Chainsaw man – Which once again strengthens the company’s strength in this sector as well as increasing the popularity of Japanese animation globally.
SPE’s TV unit saw revenues for fiscal year 2025 reach $3.39 billion, up 12 percent from $3.03 billion from the previous fiscal year. SPE’s television productions from that period include Apple TV For all humanityNetflix Night agentStars Outlander,holo Red eye And the peacock Days of our lives.
Fiscal year revenue from media networks (which includes TV and digital channels) rose 13 percent to $3.17 billion from $2.81 billion. The company revealed that it ended the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, with 38 television channels and a total of 531.7 million subscribers.
