Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Animation |
Predecessor | Screen Gems (1921–1949) Adelaide Productions |
Founded | May 9, 2002 |
Headquarters | 9050 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California , U.S. |
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Number of employees | 255 (2018)[2] |
Parent | Sony Pictures Digital (2002–2015) Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group (2015–present) |
Website | Official website |
Sony Pictures Animation Inc. (colloquially referred to as Sony Animation) 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 is based in Culver City, California. Most of the studio's films are distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Columbia Pictures label, while direct-to-video releases are released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The studio has produced 28 feature films, starting with Open Season, which was released on September 29, 2006, to its most recent film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which was released on June 2, 2023; their upcoming slate of films includes K-Pop: Demon Hunters in 2025, Goat on February 13, 2026 and Fixed and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse on unspecified dates.