Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions is a specialty film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The company specializes in acquiring and producing films for a wide variety of distribution platforms.
History
The group became a stand-alone division of Sony Pictures in 2007. Originally being called as Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group, the group's name was changed to "Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions" in late 2010. The group had sometimes been called "Sony Pictures Entertainment Worldwide Acquisitions Group".SPWA produces and acquires about 60 films per year, usually through Stage 6 Films, Affirm Films, and Destination Films. SPWA releases some of its films theatrically; the group would analyze how much a theatrical release would impact a film's TV, VOD and home video revenue, and then the group would determine whether the film should bows theatrically.
In the case of theatrical releases, SPWA will offer the films to Sony's distribution labels firstly; then, if Sony's distribution labels pass on the films, the company will release the films through other distributors.
SPWA also has the rights to the Morgan Creek Entertainment library via Revolution Studios since 2016.
Select United States theatrical releases
2000s
Paprika Daddy Day Camp Revolver Rise: Blood Hunter Seraphim Falls Slipstream Southland Tales Tekkonkinkreet The Nines We Own The Night Dark Streets Kabluey Elegy Fireproof Married Life The Perfect Holiday Black Dynamite Blood: The Last Vampire District 9 Moon Planet 51 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus2010s
To Save A Life Chloe Defendor Faster Harry Brown Legion REC 2 Red Hill The Tourist Welcome to the Rileys A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Attack the Block Bloodworth Colombiana Courageous Elektra Luxx Insidious Jumping the Broom Midnight in Paris POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Salvation Boulevard Soul Surfer The Grace Card Bel Ami Detention Looper Meeting Evil The Pirates! Band of Misfits Red Dawn Robot & Frank The Raid: Redemption '' ''Sparkle The First Time Tonight You're Mine Lake Placid: The Final Chapter Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning A Dark Truth- Austenland The Call Cold Comes the Night Elysium Evil Dead Insidious Chapter 2 Stalingrad Pompeii Moms' Night Out When the Game Stands Tall The Raid 2: Berandal The Remaining Predestination Insidious: Chapter 3 The Final Girls .Ratter The Bronze Fallen Professor Marston & The Wonder Women November Criminals Insidious: The Last Key Golden Exits Gemini Boundaries
- ''The Wedding Guest''
2020s
Yellow Rose Long Weekend Here Today A Mouthful of Air- ''Sisu''