Sony Pictures Animation

Sony Pictures Animation is an American animated film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, founded in May 2002. It works closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks, which handles digital production. Theatrical releases are distributed by Columbia Pictures, and direct-to-video releases are distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The studio's first feature film, Open Season, was released in 2006, followed by two direct-to-video sequels. Other work includes The Smurfs film series and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It is the first appearance of Open Season.
==Filmography==
===Theatrical feature films===
Released films
# 	Title 	Release date 	Budget 	Gross 	RT 	MC
1 	Open Season 	September 29, 2006	$85 million 	$197.3 million	48%	49
2 	Surf's Up 	June 8, 2007 	$100 million 	$149 million 	79%	64
3 	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 	September 18, 2009	$100 million 	$243 million 	86%	66
4 	The Smurfs 	July 29, 2011 	$110 million 	$563.7 million	21%	30
5 	Arthur Christmas 	November 23, 2011 	$100 million 	$147.4 million	92%	69
6 	The Pirates! Band of Misfits 	April 27, 2012 	$55 million 	$123 million 	86%	73
7 	Hotel Transylvania 	September 28, 2012	$85 million 	$358.4 million	45%	47
8 	The Smurfs 2 	July 31, 2013 	$105 million 	$347.5 million	14%	34
9 	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 	September 27, 2013	$78 million 	$274.3 million	71%	59
10	Hotel Transylvania 2 	September 25, 2015	$80 million 	$473.2 million	55%	44
11	Goosebumps 	October 16, 2015 	$58 million 	$150.2 million	78%	60
12	Smurfs: The Lost Village 	April 7, 2017 	$60 million 	$197.2 million	40%	40
13	The Emoji Movie 	July 28, 2017 	$50 million 	$217.8 million	7% 	12
14	The Star 	November 17, 2017 	$20 million 	$62.8 million 	42%	42
15	Peter Rabbit 	February 9, 2018 	$50 million 	$351.3 million	63%	51
16	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	July 13, 2018 	$67 million 	$528.6 million	62%	54
17	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween 	October 12, 2018 	$35 million 	$93.3 million 	47%	53
18	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 	December 14, 2018 	$90 million 	$375.5 million	97%	87
19	The Angry Birds Movie 2 	August 14, 2019 	$65 million 	$152.8 million	73%	60
20	The Mitchells vs. The Machines 	April 30, 2021 	$50-100 million	– 	98%	80
21	Wish Dragon 	June 11, 2021 	– 	$25.9 million 	65%	60
22	Vivo 	August 6, 2021 	– 	– 	89%	65
====Upcoming films====
# 	Title 	Released date
23	Hotel Transylvania: Transformania	January 14, 2022
24
25	Untitled Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel
The Boondocks Movie	October 7, 2022
November 22,
2024
==== Films in development ====
Title
How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack
Secret Histories
Kazorn and the Unicorn
Harold and the Purple Crayon
ALF
Manimal
Medusa
Superbago
Ghostbusters
A Open Season Christmas
Trouble 2
===Direct-to-video/streaming films===
#	Title 	Release date
1	Open Season 2 	January 27, 2009
2	Open Season 3 	January 25, 2011
3	Open Season: Scared Silly	March 8, 2016
4	Surf's Up 2: WaveMania 	January 17, 2017
==Trivia==
* Sony Pictures Animation was not involved with The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021).
==Gallery==
Peter Rabbit 2018 Screenshot 0009.jpg
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