Sony Pictures Imageworks
Visual effects and animation studio
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| 2025 | Upcoming projects include A Minecraft Movie, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Bad Guys 2, and In Your Dreams |
| 2024 | Planned films include Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Red One |
| 2023 | Continued diverse film production with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and The Marvels |
| October 6 2023 | Reported as the animation service for DreamWorks Animation's unannounced sequel (The Bad Guys 2), set to use a mixed production model for the 2025 film. |
| June 2023 | Vulture published an article revealing that multiple animators quit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse due to unstable working conditions at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The Animation Guild noted that despite being associated with Sony Pictures Animation, Imageworks remains a non-union workplace. |
| 2022 | Produced Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Sea Beast, and Thor: Love and Thunder |
| 2021 | Created critically acclaimed animated films including The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Vivo, and Spider-Man: No Way Home |
| 2020 | Produced Mulan and Over the Moon during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2019 | Continued film production with Men in Black: International, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Angry Birds Movie 2, Zombieland: Double Tap, and Jumanji: The Next Level |
| 2018 | Sony Pictures Imageworks produced multiple animated and live-action films including Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, The Meg, Smallfoot, Venom, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse |
| 2015 | Over 700 artists move into a new 74,000-square feet headquarters in Vancouver. |
| May 2014 | Entire headquarters and production moved to Vancouver, with only a small office remaining in Culver City. SPI closes its Indian studio, laying off around 100 employees. |
| January 2014 | Began transferring a portion of its technology team from Culver City headquarters to Vancouver as part of Sony's cost-cutting measures. |
| 2012 | SPI doubles its Vancouver facilities and closes the Albuquerque studio. |
| 2010 | SPI opens a production studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. |
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