Spider-Man: Brand New Day Powers Sony Pictures Q2 Profits to $581M

If you need more proof as to why Sony will never give up the rights to Spider-Man, just check out the studio’s latest quarterly results. Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s massive global box office success supercharged Sony Pictures Entertainment operating income for its fiscal second quarter (the three months ending September 30, 2026), with profits growing a whopping 525 percent to $581 million from the comparable period a year before. Q2 sales up a healthy 37 percent to $3.23 billion year-on-year.

SPE comprises the motion pictures division, television productions and media networks.

If we focus just on the motion pictures division (which includes movie sales from theatrical, home entertainment and television/streaming), Q2 revenue grew 155 percent y-o-y to $1.82 billion, fueled by Brand New Day, but also buoyed by the release of Evil Dead Burn (international rights only), Insidious: Out of the Further and Resident Evil .

A more granular look at just theatrical revenue in Q2, SPE saw revenues jump 1,020 percent.

Looking ahead to the next quarter, things look less rosy for SPE, with The Social Reckoning and Klara and the Sun both already having bombed at the box office. Although the studio has high hopes on Jumanji: Open World which opens on Christmas Day.

The boffo earnings at the film unit, covered up big drops in revenue elsewhere. SPE’s TV unit saw Q2 revenue reach $483 million, a 31 percent fall from $701 million in the same period a year earlier. SPE’s major streaming television productions from the period included the latest seasons of Starz’s Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Netflix’s My Life with the Walter Boys and Apple TV’s Dark Matter and Star City. Broadcast staples Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, and their various spinoffs, as well as ABC’s Shark Tank added to the TV unit’s revenues.

Second quarter revenue from media networks (that includes TV channels and digital channels including the fast growing Crunchyroll anime streamer) was down 2 percent to $896 million from $913 million. The company revealed that it ended the period with 38 television channels and that Crunchyroll had over 21 million paid subscribers as of March 2026.

Elsewhere, Sony Music Entertainment expanded on its strong performance, with Q2 revenue climbing to $3.72 billion (¥592.3 billion, up 11.25 percent from ¥532.4 billion in the same period a year ago). Michael Jackson’s Thriller remained a top global seller as the halo from the biopic continued, helping the album to become Sony’s second best-selling project for the quarter behind ATEEZ’s GOLDEN HOUR: Part.5.

SME’s other best-selling artists in Q2 2026 were Ella Langley (Dandelion), Bad Bunny (DEBÍ TIRAR MÁS FOTOS and Un Verano Sin Ti), SZA (SOS), Shakira (Dai Dai), Beyoncé (B’DAY 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION), Future (The Real Me), and Peter Peter (Heated Rivalry soundtrack).

Second quarter revenue in the Game & Network Services unit (which includes PlayStation hardware and software sales and services income) rose 8.56 percent year-over-year to $7.59 billion (¥1.21 trillion, up from ¥1.11 trillion in the same period a year ago). PlayStation 5 hardware sales hit 2.6 million units in the period, down 36.43 percent from the 4.09 million units shifted a year ago. But looking ahead, Sony is in prime position to benefit from the likely hysteria around the release of Take-Two Interactive’s long-awaited video game Grand Theft Auto VI later this year.

PlayStation Network monthly active users hit 127 million in Q2, up 6.72 percent from 119 million MAUs from the same period the year before. Sony also previously revealed that cumulative sales of PlayStation 5 hardware had hit 93.7 million as of March 31, 2026.

In 2026, Sony’s only new first-party video game title has been Marvel’s Wolverine which has so far sold 2.4 million units.