Sony Pictures Entertainment’s operating income for the first quarter ended June 30, 2025 was up 76 percent to $129 million from $73 million in dollar terms for the comparable period a year before, with Q1 sales up 4 percent to $2.263 billion from $2.166 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 Q1 revenue fall 13 percent to $742 million from $852 million. SPE released four theatrical movies globally in the period, including Until Dawn, Materialists (outside North America only), Karate Kid: Legends and 28 Years Later (for which only 11 days of release were included in Q1).
SPE’s TV unit saw Q1 revenue reach $841 million, up a healthy 39 percent from $607 million in the same period a year earlier. SPE’s major streaming television productions from the period included Amazon Prime Video’s Wheel of Time and The Narrow Road to the Deep North, HBO’s The Last of Us, Netflix’s Department Q, The Creature Cases and Yo No Soy Mendoza. Broadcast staples Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, and their various spinoffs, as well as ABC’s Shark Tank and American Idol bolstered the TV unit’s revenues.
First quarter revenue from media networks (that includes TV channels and digital channels) fell 4 percent to $674 million from $702 million. The company revealed that it ended Q1 2025 with 40 television channels and 675.2 million total subscribers.
