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Sony Film Unit Posts $93M Quarterly Profit; Company Forecasts Record Full-Year Earnings
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Fucking godammit. When will people learn that SPE hasn't been on fire in a while.
No, they made an operating profit last year as well, but took a goodwill impairment writedown due to the changes in the home entertainment market. They were profitable in 2015 also. And in 2014.
Most of Juamanji is next quarter iirc.
Sony Pictures is fine. Man, you guys really don't know how to read financial statements or you don't want to actually look at history (as in the last couple years of Sony Pictures statements).
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Just making a joke I know they havent been on fire for a while now lol
I certainly hope they don't. In this day and age we need all the competition we need.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Hotel Transylvania 3
Goosebumps 2
Slender Man (It's gonna be cheap)
Sicario 2: Soldado
Eventually all studios will degrade due to the Disney monopoly. Disney will acquire more and more and so each month is tentpole'd by Disney. I'd guess the future is Disney making blockbusters while there's much smaller studios making low budget flicks that pick up money during the Disney blockbuster valleys.
The future looks great.
The future looks great.
Sony's release slate for next year:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=upcoming&view=company&studio=tristar.htm
Padman2/9/18
Peter Rabbit 2/9/18
Paul, Apostle of Christ 3/28/18
Superfly 6/15/18
Sicario 2: Soldado 6/29/18
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 7/13/18
The Equalizer 2 8/3/18
Slender Man 8/24/18
Alpha 9/14/18
Venom (2018) 10/5/18
Goosebumps 2 10/12/18
The Girl in the Spider's Web 11/9/18
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (3D) 12/14/18
Holmes & Watson 12/21/18
Nothing in there is big enough to break them, and a few of the movies have a chance of becoming decent sized hits (Peter Rabbit, HT3, Equalizer 2, Goosebumps 2, Venom, and maybe even Girl in the Spider's Web). 2019 has a chance at being a big year with Homecoming 2, probably Silver and Black, Men in Black and Charlie's Angels reboots, Angry Birds 2, Tarantino's Manson movie and maybe Bad Boys 4 Life.
What type of fever dream BS is this?
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=upcoming&view=company&studio=tristar.htm
Padman2/9/18
Peter Rabbit 2/9/18
Paul, Apostle of Christ 3/28/18
Superfly 6/15/18
Sicario 2: Soldado 6/29/18
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 7/13/18
The Equalizer 2 8/3/18
Slender Man 8/24/18
Alpha 9/14/18
Venom (2018) 10/5/18
Goosebumps 2 10/12/18
The Girl in the Spider's Web 11/9/18
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (3D) 12/14/18
Holmes & Watson 12/21/18
Nothing in there is big enough to break them, and a few of the movies have a chance of becoming decent sized hits (Peter Rabbit, HT3, Equalizer 2, Goosebumps 2, Venom, and maybe even Girl in the Spider's Web). 2019 has a chance at being a big year with Homecoming 2, probably Silver and Black, Men in Black and Charlie's Angels reboots, Angry Birds 2, Tarantino's Manson movie and maybe Bad Boys 4 Life.
What type of fever dream BS is this?
Dream? Disney is acquiring. With FOX IPs they will have a lot of popular movies under their belt. They could potentially put out a huge blockbuster every 2 weeks throughout the entire year. Not many studios can actually compete with that. It'll be interesting to see how the shape of entertainment goes the bigger Disney gets.
Disney is not going to buy everyone. Worst case scenario is probably a duopoly between them and Comcast/Universal, but I don't really think Warner Bros sells out to either one in the near future either.
They literally weren't.
The list of upcoming releases has been posted a few times, so I'll just say that 2018 looks like a solid but unspectacular year. I'm interested to see just how well Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will do though.
There are a lot of M&A speculation going on, so far it has been suggested that SPE should merge/acquire with CBS, Lionsgate, or get sold off. Nothing remotely concrete on this front though.
Okay, so you just threw in a bad and more importantly inaccurate joke in the OP because?
Yes.
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Ill remove it if it bothers you that much didnt really mean for all this
It just kind of sets a bad tone for the thread when SPE has had three straight years of operating profit to say that it's for the first time in a million years, especially when people already have a weird preconception of SPE as the dumpster fire studio (which in actuality would be Paramount).
And while we're at misconceptions, the second season of The Crown was probably just as responsible, if not more, for the profit this quarter as Jumanji (it definitely will help their next quarter though).
Forgot about this the last time 'round:
It's not really, which has been the single most compelling argument for a sale. It's also the single most compelling argument for an expansion.
I have no idea where they'll take SPE.
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I was really trying to make fun of those people(including myself) who thinks sony is losing money every year but I understand it can be misinterpreted. Ill remove it now
We might get a Blade Runner that's profitable without needing 50 Directors Cut Edition Blu-ray releases.
We'll get another Blade Runner in about 30 years.
And it'll flop too.
Most of jumanji is going to be counted for the next quarter. I believe their tv division is what is responsible for this quarter's profit with crown season two and their local sports network subscriptions from India.
Worst timeline. Disney is one the most boring by the numbers studio out there. I will not expect a Blade runner, mad max etc from them anytime. As is it is we have enough terribad MCU and Star Wars movies. We don't need more of that.
http://deadline.com/2018/02/sony-stock-soars-speculation-sale-film-tv-business-1202277362/
So Sony may be looking to get rid of its film and TV business, despite it being profitable now.
So Sony may be looking to get rid of its film and TV business, despite it being profitable now.
Doubt Sony sell it. People speculating SPE to be sold once Kaz is going down simply because Kaz is big supporter of them (and TV). But it simply make no sense to simply sell it. Sony is in better position now and those department make money. The movie is crucial for them for content generation and product advertisement.
Or because it is profitable now. That Deadline piece isn't great tbh, Variety put out the best article of the trades imo:
With Kazuo Hirai Out, Sony's Entertainment Strategy Loses Its Biggest Champion
So it's a lot of speculation with not a lot of certainty of where SPE will be going.
Now the only recent comment I could find by Yoshida on SPE is from February last year (and let's be clear he could just be touting the company line):
It's funny that Kaz is now hailed as the champion of SPE and the entertainment side of Sony because under his reign we heard multiple times how SPE is being sold any minute now, even late last year.
Probably the same people with interest who are stoking the flames again.
Probably the same people with interest who are stoking the flames again.
