Spider-Man: Brand New Day delivered more than a global box-office hit for Sony Pictures Entertainment — it powered a dramatic surge in the studio’s latest quarterly results.

Sony Pictures posted operating income of $581 million for its fiscal second quarter, covering the three months ending September 30, 2026. That represented a 525 percent increase from the comparable period a year earlier, while quarterly sales rose 37 percent to $3.23 billion.

The results cover Sony Pictures Entertainment’s motion pictures, television productions and media networks businesses. The film operation was the clear standout, with Brand New Day serving as the primary driver of a sharply improved quarter.

Movie Revenue Soars

Revenue from the motion pictures division climbed 155 percent year over year to $1.82 billion. That category includes theatrical sales as well as revenue from home entertainment and television and streaming.

When narrowed to theatrical revenue alone, the increase was even more striking: Sony Pictures recorded a 1,020 percent year-over-year jump during the quarter.

Although Spider-Man: Brand New Day fueled the performance, Sony’s film slate also included Evil Dead Burn, for which the studio held international rights, along with Insidious: Out of the Further and Resident Evil.

The movie division’s strength helped counter weaker results elsewhere inside Sony Pictures. Television revenue fell 31 percent to $483 million, compared with $701 million during the same quarter one year earlier.

Major streaming productions contributing during 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.

Long-running broadcast titles also added to the television unit’s revenue, including Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, their various spinoffs and ABC’s Shark Tank.

Revenue from Sony Pictures’ media networks operation, which includes television channels, digital channels and the Crunchyroll anime streaming service, slipped 2 percent to $896 million from $913 million. Sony ended the quarter with 38 television channels. Crunchyroll had more than 21 million paid subscribers as of March 2026.

Music and PlayStation Add to Sony’s Quarter

Elsewhere in Sony’s entertainment portfolio, Sony Music Entertainment reported second-quarter revenue of $3.72 billion, or ¥592.3 billion. That was an 11.25 percent increase from ¥532.4 billion in the year-earlier period.

ATEEZ’s GOLDEN HOUR: Part.5 was Sony Music’s top-selling project for the quarter, followed by Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which continued to benefit from interest surrounding the biopic.

Other leading projects came from Ella Langley with Dandelion; Bad Bunny with DEBÍ TIRAR MÁS FOTOS and Un Verano Sin Ti; SZA with SOS; Shakira with Dai Dai; Beyoncé with B’DAY 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION; Future with The Real Me; and Peter Peter with the Heated Rivalry soundtrack.

Sony’s Game & Network Services division, which encompasses PlayStation hardware, software and services, increased revenue by 8.56 percent to $7.59 billion, or ¥1.21 trillion. The division generated ¥1.11 trillion in the comparable quarter last year.

PlayStation 5 hardware sales declined 36.43 percent to 2.6 million units, down from 4.09 million a year earlier. However, PlayStation Network monthly active users increased 6.72 percent to 127 million from 119 million. Sony previously reported that cumulative PlayStation 5 sales had reached 93.7 million units as of March 31, 2026.

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

ShowBiz Take

The scale of Sony Pictures’ quarterly turnaround shows just how decisively a major theatrical release can reshape an entertainment company’s financial picture. A 1,020 percent increase in theatrical revenue did more than lift the film division: It helped Sony Pictures absorb substantial weakness in television and a smaller decline across media networks.

At the same time, the results expose the unevenness beneath the headline number. The quarter’s momentum was concentrated in motion pictures, led by Spider-Man: Brand New Day, rather than spread consistently across every Sony Pictures business.

What Happens Next?

Sony Pictures faces a more challenging film comparison in the next quarter. The Social Reckoning and Klara and the Sun have already underperformed at the box office, while the studio is placing high hopes on Jumanji: Open World, which opens on Christmas Day.

That leaves the upcoming release carrying added importance as Sony Pictures looks to follow a quarter transformed by Spider-Man: Brand New Day.