Sony Pictures Animation

Sony Pictures Animation Inc. is an American animation studio owned by Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment through their Motion Picture Group division and founded on May 9, 2002. The studio's films are distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Columbia Pictures label, while all direct-to-video releases are released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The first film produced by the studio, Open Season, was released on September 29, 2006, and their most recent film was Hotel Transylvania: Transformania on January 14, 2022. Their upcoming slate of films includes Open Season on December 23, 2022, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse on June 2, 2023, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse on March 29, 2024 and Smurfs: Returning Village on October 15, 2025.