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Sony Profit Up 32% as Playstation Stays Strong While Film, TV Lag

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July 31, 2026

Playstation remains the top moneymaker for Sony as its games division brings in $1.25 billion in operating income.
Sony Pictures, which had no major hits this past quarter, saw a 3% decrease in revenue with operating income of $154 million.
The studio’s third quarter is likely to be far more lucrative as “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is projected for a $2 billion-plus global theatrical run

While Sony’s film division is about to see a huge windfall with the release of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the Japanese company is still relying on Playstation as its primary moneymaker as operating profits increased 32% in its latest quarterly report while film and television continued to lag.

Overall, Sony reported operating income of 476 billion yen ($2.96 billion USD), with total revenue up 8.2% to 2.83 trillion yen ($17.66 billion). Net income attributable to shareholders was reported at 57.42 yen/share, or 36 cents per share.

Sony also increased its full year operating income forecast by 8% to 1.72 trillion yen, or $10.6 billion USD.

Once again, Sony’s gaming division was the top revenue driver, followed by the company’s imaging division. Though Sony got backlash from some customers earlier this month from the announcement that Playstation would phase out physical versions of games by 2028, the Playstation Network reached 125 million users last quarter as it reported operating income of 202 billion yen, or $1.25 billion USD.

Sony Pictures, meanwhile, saw income slip 3% to $1.9 billion (312.2 billion yen), while its operating income rose to $154.3 million, up 33% year over year. Theatrically, Sony had almost no presence at the box office in the second quarter, with the Nate Bargatze comedy “The Breadwinner” grossing just $20.2 million at the U.S. box office.

But that will change immensely in the third quarter, as the studio will release Marvel Studios’ “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which is looking at a global opening weekend of at least $850 million in grosses, making it the second largest in box office history. The film is likely to become the eighth to gross more than $2 billion at the worldwide box office, as Sony’s partnership with Disney and Marvel Studios on “Spider-Man” continues to bear fruit.

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Passes ‘Avengers: Endgame’ With Record $72 Million in Box Office Previews

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July 31, 2026

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A box office record once believed to never be broken might fall this weekend, as Sony/Marvel Studios’ “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has earned an unbelievable $72 million from Thursday preview screenings, shattering the previous preview record of $60 million set by “Avengers: Endgame” in April 2019.

On that weekend seven years ago, “Endgame” grossed $357 million domestic and $1.2 billion worldwide, capitalizing on 11 years of Marvel Cinematic Universe narratives to achieve a launch that many thought would never happen again. But with this start, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is firmly within striking distance of that record.

The fourth “Spider-Man” film starring Tom Holland has also earned sterling audience scores across the board, including an A on CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes scores of 91% critics and 98% audience. With this rave reception and a lack of major box office titles in August, “Brand New Day” has everything it needs for a global theatrical run of more than $2 billion.

Combined with the third weekend of Universal’s “The Odyssey,” “Brand New Day” should also set a new record for the highest overall domestic weekend in box office history, which reached $402 million on the launch weekend of “Endgame.” Such a result would push domestic grosses for the year to date past the $6 billion mark, making it all but certain that it will reach $10 billion by year’s end for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Rebecca Hall Joins Netflix Series Based On Dan Brown Novel

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July 31, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall (The Beauty, The Listeners) has officially been cast as the female lead, Katherine Solomon, on the untitled new Netflix series based on the world of Dan Brown’s novel The Secret of Secrets. She will star opposite her husband, Morgan Spector, who will play the character Robert Langdon.

Deadline first revealed Hall was in talks to join the series earlier this month.

In the 2025 novel, symbologist Robert Langdon races against ancient forces and time to rescue a missing scientist and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind. Katherine is a scientist and Langdon’s girlfriend in the book.

The series adaptation from Brown and Carlton Cuse “will blend futuristic science with mystical lore, delivering on the heart-pounding suspense and international intrigue that has made the Langdon stories a global phenomenon,” the streamer touted.

Cuse and Brown are co-creators and executive producers of the series adaptation, with the former also serving as writer and showrunner. Emma Forman of Cuse’s Genre-Arts also executive produces the project with Zoe Robyn, which landed at Netflix in May 2025 with a straight-to-series order.

The Secret of Secrets was published by Doubleday on September 9, 2025. Langdon has been featured in five previous books: Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), and Origin (2017). Tom Hanks played Langdon in the film franchise by Ron Howard, which has grossed approximately $2.24 billion worldwide as of 2025.

Hall is repped by Julian Belfrage Associates in London, WME, and attorney Gretchen Rush.

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Jimmy Fallon Gets 52 Spideys in Times Square to Re-Create Meme

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July 31, 2026

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“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is now in theaters, and to celebrate, Jimmy Fallon re-created one of the most famous Spider-Man memes out there. But, the NBC host brought in a lot of Spideys to do it.

For those unfamiliar, the meme in question shows Spider-Man pointing at a second Spider-Man, and has since been used as a “pot calling the kettle black” meme in pop culture. It originated from the 1967 animated Spider-Man series, specifically from an episode called “Double Identity,” wherein Spider-Man runs into a criminal pretending to be him. The two point at each other, and thus, the meme was born.

So, Fallon decided to celebrate the newest movie by doing his own rendition of the meme.

“We’re going to set the record for most Spider-Mans pointing at each other in Times Square,” he revealed, wearing a full Spider-Man costume. “Let’s do this. My spidey senses are tingling.”

Indeed, the fake Spider-Man then hit Times Square, immediately ran into another spidey performer, and the two began pointing. From there, even more Spider-Men flooded out, forming a circle and all pointing at each other. In total, there were 52 heroes out to re-create the meme.

It’s not the first time that fans have been treated to a real life version of the joke. In fact, Sony and Marvel did it themselves, onscreen.

In “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” all three live action Peter Parkers — Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland — unite briefly in the same universe. In one scene, Ned (Jacob Batalon) calls out for Peter, only for all three to look up, and immediately begin pointing at each other to see who he meant.

Additionally, the three actors did a whole, proper photoshoot behind the scenes to re-create the meme as well.

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is now in theaters everywhere.