Blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” delivered a major boost to Sony‘s September quarterly earnings on the top and bottom lines.
\n\nSony Pictures Entertainment, for the quarter ended Sept. 30, reported sales up 37% to $3.23 billion and operating income of $488 million — a year-over-year increase of 527%. The results were largely driven by the box-office success of “Brand New Day.”
\n\nSPE’s theatrical revenue for the period came in at a whopping $1.28 billion, an 11-fold increase from the year-earlier period, thanks mostly to “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” alongside horror films “Insidious: Out of the Further” and “Resident Evil.” Television productions segment revenue dropped 31% year over year, to $483 million.
\n\n“Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which opened wide July 31, became the third-highest grossing movie in history with a haul of $2.52 billion at the global box office this summer (behind the original “Avatar” and Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame”).
\n\nOverall for the quarter ended Sept. 30, Sony’s Q2 of fiscal year 2026, the company reported revenue of 3.429 trillion yen ($21.5 billion), up 10%, and net income of 450 billion yen ($2.8 billion), up 44%.
\n\n“Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker and Zendaya as MJ, is “not…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/