Sony’s Film and TV Unit Sees Full Year 2023 Profit Slip to $808M

Sony Footage Leisure’s full fiscal-year 2023 working earnings fell to $808 million from $894 million in greenback phrases, with gross sales creeping up barely to $10.32 billion from $10.14 billion.

SPE contains movement footage, tv productions and media networks, and the fiscal-year 2023 efficiency of these three segments was impacted by the twin Hollywood strikes.

Sony’s fiscal 12 months ended March 31, 2024, and in that interval, Movement Footage unit income amounted to $3.74 billion, up from $3.44 billion from a 12 months in the past. SPE launched 17 movies in the course of the interval together with Insidious: The Pink Door, Love Once more, The Pope’s Exorcist, The Machine, Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, No Laborious Emotions, Gran Turismo, The Equalizer 3, Thanksgiving, Dumb Cash, Napoleon, Anybody However You and Madame Net.

In Sony’s fiscal fourth quarter, the movie division noticed working earnings of $208 million, up from the $119 million within the year-ago quarter. Within the newest quarter, the movie division benefitted from the efficiency of the Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell rom-com Anybody However You that proved to be an enormous success on the field workplace, turning into one of many studio’s prime earners in fiscal 2023 making $218 million on the world field workplace. Nonetheless, the quarter additionally noticed the discharge of the Sony/Marvel title Madame Net, which was panned by critics — the movie boasts a dreary 11 % Rotten Tomatoes critics rating — that was one other field workplace misfire for the studio’s makes an attempt to develop its Spider-Man universe after the equally panned 2022 launch Morbius.

With a manufacturing price range of just below $100 million, Madame Net had an underwhelming six-day opening of $25.8 million and made a complete of $100 million on the world field workplace. Within the fourth quarter, Sony movies on launch included the Biblical epic The E-book of Clarence ($6 million of gross sales on the field workplace) and the franchise film Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire ($109 million for the times counted inside the fourth quarter).

Tv productions noticed FY 2023 income of $3.806 billion, down from $3.982 billion. Within the fourth quarter, tv productions noticed income climb to $961 million from $883 million within the earlier quarter. SPE’s tv operation contains present hits reminiscent of Netflix’s The Crown, Apple TV+’s For All Mankind, Disney+’s Goosebumps, Amazon Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time and Gen V in addition to long-running hits reminiscent of Days of Our Lives, Jeopardy! and its numerous spinoffs and Shark Tank.

FY 2023 income at Sony’s Recreation & Community Companies division, a separate entity to SPE and which encompasses PlayStation {hardware} and software program gross sales in addition to the PlayStation Community, hit $27.293 billion, up from $23.419 billion. Sony revealed that it offered 20.8 million PlayStation 5 items in FY 2023 (it offered 19.1 million PS5s in FY 2022). Sony additionally revealed it now has 118 million month-to-month lively customers on the PlayStation Community.

Sony’s music division noticed its FY 2023 working earnings hit $1.93 billion, up from $1.68 billion, on income of $10.19 billion, up from $8.72 billion. Quarterly income climbed to $2.70 billion from $2.67 billion.