Well if they stop greenlighting crappy movie ideas they might actually have a profitable movie division. They pretty much rely on Spider man and Bond to get them through. It's great that they invest in indie projects, but when Angry Birds is one of your more profitable wide release movies for the year you have a problem at the big budget end.
In 2016 Sony had 26 movies (some carry overs from 2015). Only 2 managed to get over $100 million at the US box office, and none got over $150 million. Ghostbusters came close to breaking even but was ultimately a financial flop. Angry Birds was quite profitable because it had a modest budget and a big international box office. Sausage Party, also a very modest budget was handily profitable. Magnificent 7 was an big budget failure and I don;t know how they sunk $144 million into making it when it was always a risky proposition for the box office. Inferno managed to make a buck, because thankfully someone kept a lid on the budget. But if it had Magnificent 67 levels of money poured into it it would have been a financial flop too.
If Spider Man Homecoming captures some of the MCU magic I think Sony might try to keep hold of its movie division, at least for a few more years.
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