Sony Pictures Entertainment’s operating income for its fiscal third quarter (ending December 31, 2025) was down 11 percent to $197 million from $223 million in dollar terms for the comparable period a year before, with Q3 sales down 12 percent to $2.295 billion from $2.619 billion.
SPE comprises the motion pictures division, television productions and media networks.
The motion pictures unit (which comprises sales from theatrical, home entertainment and streaming sales) saw Q3 revenue fall 7 percent to $792 million from $1.108 billion, for the comparable period a year before. SPE released five theatrical movies globally in the period, including Soul On Fire, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, Nuremberg, SISU: Road to Revenge and Anaconda. In the same period the year before SPE benefitted from the strong box office performance of Venom: The Last Dance, which brought in $478 million in Q3 2024.
SPE’s TV unit saw Q3 revenue reach $718 million, down 10 percent from $797 million in the same period a year earlier. SPE’s major streaming television productions from the period included Fox’s Doc and Universal Basic Guys and Starz’s Outlander: Blood of My Blood. 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.
Third quarter revenue from media networks (that includes TV channels and digital channels) was up 10 percent to $775 million from $707 million. The company revealed that it ended 2025 with 38 television channels and 535.2 million total subscribers.
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