Claim: The Emoji Movie will be released by a film studio.
Evidence: Produced by Sony Pictures Animation , the film is scheduled to be released on July 28 , 2017 , by Columbia Pictures.
Columbia Pictures Industries , Inc. -LRB- known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia , and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation -RRB- is an American film studio , production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group , a division of Sony Entertainment 's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.