In 2022, Netflix has come up with many brand-new animated and live-action Sony films, that may continue into 2023. For those unaware, Netflix and Sony are already in a deal in April 2021 to fetch Sony’s feature films set to serve in the coveted pay-1 window. It means any Sony theatrical releases coming to Netflix across 6 months after they debut in theaters. The new deal goes beyond just carrying theatrical releases, however.
In the original press release, Netflix promised to future entries Venom, Spiderman, Jumanji, and Bad Boys are all headed to the service. Over the years, we’ve seen many Sony movies skip cinemas and sold to Netflix instead, particularly over the pandemic. Examples include Vivo, The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, Wish Dragon, and Fatherhood.
Before we get into the full list, we’ve heard that K-Pop: Demon Hunters from Sony Animation is eying a full jump over to Netflix, but there is no confirmation of that yet from Netflix.
As part of the Sony deal with Netflix, a select number of titles will come to Netflix exclusively.
19. Honey Girls
Release Date: 3rd January 2022
The story of a mega pop star, Fancy H has hosted a contest to get the next big solo project. The teen contestants feel they are “better together” and secretly form a band named Honey Girls.
18. Never Back Down: Revolt
Release Date: 3rd March 2022
The story film revolved around a young woman who has been kidnapped and getting forced to compete in elite just underground battles and is set to fight her way for freedom.
17. Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Release Date: 13th June
The film follows personal anecdotes, and interviews, with some shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of the anti-Black racism in the US.
16. The Man from Toronto
Release Date: 24th July 2022
The world’s deadliest assassin and New York’s biggest screw-up have been mistaken for each other at the Airbnb rental.
15. Umma
Release Date: 16th July 2022
The story is about Amanda and her daughter living peaceful life on an American farm, while the rest of her getting estranged mother visits from Korea, Amanda has become haunted by the fear of turning.
14. Uncharted
Release Date: 5th August 2022
The street-smart Nathan Drake getting recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor “Sully” Sullivan to recover the fortune getting amassed via Ferdinand Magellan
13. Morbius
Release Date: 7th September 2022
The film follows a biochemist Michael Mobius trying to cure himself of a rare blood disease, he just inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
12. Father Stu
Release Date: 16th September 2022
The biography follows the life of Father Stuart Long based on a boxer-turned-priest who has inspired countless people at the time b of his journey from self-destruction.
11. Where the Crawdads Sing
Release Date: 12th November 2022
The film is based on a woman who just raised herself in the marshes of the Dep South and become a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she has set to involve.
10. Sniper: Rogue Mission
Release Date: 1st December 2022
While there is a crooked federal agent getting involved in a human sex trafficking ring, Sniper and CIA Rookie Brando Beckett gets rogue and collaborates with his former allies Homeland Security Agent Zero.
9. Bullet Train
Release Date: 3rd December 2022
The story of five assassins aboard a swiftly-moving bullet train to get out that their missions have something in common.
8. The Invitation
Release Date: December 2022 – March 2023
From Sony’s ScreenGems division comes another horror headlined by Nathalie Emmanuel.
After the death of her mother, Evie is approached by an unknown cousin who invites her to a lavish wedding in the English countryside. Soon, she realizes a gothic conspiracy is afoot and must fight for survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family’s history.”
7. The Woman King
Release Date: In February 2023
Coming from TriStar Pictures and Entertainment One is a new historical epic that follows Nanisca, the general of the Dahomey Amazons, and Nawi, an ambitious recruit in the Kingdom of Dahomey.
6. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Release Date: February to May 2023
The story of the film is Based on the children’s book by Bernard Waber, this adaptation revolves around a crocodile living in New York City.
5. Devotion
Release Date: March to June 2023
Hoping to find success in the theaters following the release of Top Gun: Maverick is the latest Sony movie Devotion. Inspired by the heroic true story of the Navy’s most exceptional pilots, Devotion is adapted from the book by Adam Makos, which is set during the Korean war.
4. I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Release Date: In June 2023
Sony won the bidding war for the film’s rights to Whitney Houston’s biopic, which means we could see a future Oscar nomination for actress Naomi Ackie, who is taking on the mammoth lead role.
The screenplay of Whitney Houston’s life is penned by Anthony McCarten, who wrote the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
3. A Man Called Otto
Release Date: In May 2023
Tom Hanks stars and produces Sony’s big Christmas movie for 2022. It’s the second major film adaptation of the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and sees Hanks play the role of Otto. The film is about a grumpy retiree set on his way and finds an unlikely friendship with his lovely new neighbors.
2. Missing
Release Date: In June 2023
The brand new suspense thriller comes from Sony’s subsidiaries Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films. It comes from the creators of the hit movie Searching and is a mystery about a daughter looking for answers to her mother’s disappearance while on vacation in Colombia.
1.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)
Release Date: September – December 2023
Without a doubt, Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of the best-animated movies in history and rightfully earned the Oscar for the best-animated film at the 91st Academy Awards.
The sky is only limited by imagination and a film budget for the upcoming animated Spider-Man sequel. We are all in for an amazing time if it’s anything like its predecessor.
Little is known about the plot of the Spider-Verse movie, but at the very least, we’re expecting to see even more famous variations of the webbed wonder.
In the interest of time, here’s the rest of the remainder of the Columbia Pictures output for 2023:
Sony Pictures Classics Movies Coming Soon to Netflix
As observed with Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, it’s taking around 150 days for movies from Sony Pictures Classics to head to Netflix, although Compartment No. 6 has bucked this trend thus far.
These are all the Sony Pictures Classics movies to have released in 2022 and are expected to hit Netflix at some point in the future:
11. Compartment No. 6
Release Date: 26th January 2022
The following train weaves the way up to the arctic circle with two strangers sharing a journey that can able to change their view towards life.
10. Mothering Sunday
Release Date: 25th March 2022
The story of aid living In post-world War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before with the man she has loved just before he left to marry another woman.
9. The Duke
Release Date: 22nd March 2022
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington belonging to the National Gallery in London.
8. Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
Initial Release Date: 13th May 2022
The only movie that just not only captures the signature of the annual music with the cultural event has been named America’s greatest festival with its own bliss.
7. The Phantom of the Opera
Initial Release Date: 3rd June 2022
Maurice Flitcroft with a dreamer and unrelenting optimist manages to get entry to the 1976 British Open Golf Championship qualifications despite with a complete novice.
6. Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen
Initial Release Date: 1st July 2022
The feature-length documentary has explored the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen through the prism of his internationally populate hymn Hallejuah.
5. The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlie
Initial Release Date: 21st October 2022
After the decade Tanya Tucker just slipped from the spotlight music star Brandi Carlile takes the upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya’s extraordinary life.
4. Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Initial Release Date: 4th November 2022
The film follows an Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo been made shoes for Hollywood stars at the time of the silent film era for the iconic films of the period.
3. The Son
Initial Release Date: 11th November 2022
Peter with his busy life along with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray while his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicolas.
2. Living
Initial Release Date: 23rd December 2022
In 1950s London the humorless civil servant decided to take time off work to experience life after getting a grim diagnosis.
1.Turn Every Page—The Adventures of Robert Caro
Initial Release Date: 30th December 2022
On following the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor the literary giant Robert Gottlieb with this chronicle of a unique 50-year professional relationship.
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