Sausage Party

2016 adult animated film

Sausage Party

Theatrical release poster

Directed by|

* Conrad Vernon
* Greg Tiernan

Screenplay by|

* Kyle Hunter
* Ariel Shaffir
* Seth Rogen
* Evan Goldberg

Story by|

* Seth Rogen
* Evan Goldberg
* Jonah Hill

Produced by|

* Megan Ellison
* Seth Rogen
* Evan Goldberg
* Conrad Vernon

Starring|

* Seth Rogen
* Kristen Wiig
* Jonah Hill
* Bill Hader
* Michael Cera
* James Franco
* Danny McBride
* Craig Robinson
* Paul Rudd
* Nick Kroll
* David Krumholtz
* Edward Norton
* Salma Hayek

Edited by| Kevin Pavlovic
Music by|

* Alan Menken
* Christopher Lennertz

Production
companies

* Columbia Pictures
* Annapurna Pictures
* Point Grey Pictures

Distributed by| Sony Pictures Releasing[1]

Release dates

* March 14, 2016 (2016-03-14) (SXSW)
* August 12, 2016 (2016-08-12) (United States)

Running time

| 89 minutes[2]
Countries|

* United States[3]
* Canada[4]

Languages| English
French
Budget| $19 million[5][6]
Box office| $141.3 million[7]

Sausage Party is a 2016 adult animated comedy film directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan (in his feature length directorial debut), written by Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and based on a story by Rogen, Goldberg and Jonah Hill. A co-production between Canada and the United States, the film features the voices of Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton and Salma Hayek. The film follows an anthropomorphic sausage who lives in a supermarket and goes on a journey with his friends to escape their fate as groceries eaten by humans.

The film's animation was handled by the Vancouver-based Nitrogen Studios.[4] It is the first computer-animated film in both United States and Canada to be rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America.[8][9][10] The film's rough cut premiered on March 14, 2016, at South by Southwest, followed by its general theatrical release in the United States on August 12, 2016, by Columbia Pictures.[11]

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its story and humor. It grossed $141 million against a budget of $19 million, surpassing South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut (1999) as the highest-grossing R-rated animated film at that time until it was surpassed by Demon Slayer: Mugen Train in 2020.

In 2024, a sequel streaming series, Sausage Party: Foodtopia, was released on Amazon Prime Video.

## Plot

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Unbeknownst to humans, a supermarket called Shopwell's is populated by anthropomorphic foodstuffs, as well as some other consumable items, that believe human shoppers are gods who take purchased groceries to a utopia known as the "Great Beyond". Among the groceries is a sausage named Frank, who dreams of living in the Great Beyond with his hot dog bun girlfriend Brenda and their friends, Carl and Barry.

One day, Frank and Brenda's packages are purchased by a female shopper. On their way out of the store, a returned jar of honey mustard tries to warn the groceries that the Great Beyond is a lie, but nobody listens except Frank. Before committing suicide by falling onto the shop floor, Honey Mustard tells Frank to seek out a bottle of liquor named Firewater. Honey Mustard's suicide creates an accidental cart collision that causes Frank, Brenda and several groceries to fall out of the cart, including Jewish bagel Sammy Bagel Jr., Middle-Eastern lavash Kareem Abdul Lavash and an aggressive douche who swears revenge on Frank and Brenda after his nozzle is bent on impact.

Seeking to verify Honey Mustard's warning, Frank leads Brenda, Sammy and Lavash to the liquor aisle where he meets Firewater and learns that Firewater and his colleagues, the Non-Perishables, created the white lie of the Great Beyond to assuage the groceries' fear of being eaten. Frank vows to reveal the truth and is encouraged to travel beyond the store's freezer section to find proof. Brenda, Sammy and Lavash are brought to the Mexican food aisle by a bottle of tequila, who is secretly working for Douche. Teresa del Taco, a lesbian taco, develops a crush on Brenda and helps them escape Douche.

Meanwhile at the shopper's house, Carl and Barry are horrified to see the shopper cooking the foods. Barry escapes through an open window as Carl is stabbed and sliced in half by the shopper. Barry encounters a human drug addict, who becomes able to communicate with his groceries, one of them being Gum, a Stephen Hawking-like wad of chewing gum, after injecting himself with bath salts. The bath salts wear off and the addict prepares to cook Barry. The addict accidentally burns himself and Barry yanks his shoelaces, making him slip and causing an axe to fall and decapitate him.

Frank's friends disapprove of his skepticism of the Great Beyond. He discovers a cookbook beyond the freezer section and reveals its contents to the store's inhabitants. They panic at first, but then shortly refuse to believe Frank until Barry, Gum and the other groceries from the addict's home return with the drug addict’s severed head, proving that the humans can be killed. The group drugs the human shoppers and employees with toothpicks laced with bath salts, whereupon an epic battle begins. Several humans are gruesomely killed by the groceries while Douche takes control of the store manager Darren. He confronts Frank about becoming a god now that he is in control of Darren and takes a bite out of Frank's torso. Brenda saves Frank as Barry and the other groceries catch Douche and Darren in a garbage pail strapped to propane tanks. They are then launched out of the store as the tanks explode, killing them both.

The inhabitants celebrate their victory with a massive orgy. Later, Frank and his friends visit Firewater, who has had a psychedelic experience with Gum and discovered that their world is not what they think; they are merely animated characters voiced by actors in another dimension. Gum has constructed a portal to this dimension and the group travel there to confront their creators.

## Voice cast

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* Seth Rogen as Frank Frankfurter, a sausage who sets out to discover and expose the truth about the "Great Beyond"[12][13][14]
* Kristen Wiig as Brenda Bunson, a hot dog bun who is Frank's love interest[14][15]
* Jonah Hill as Carl, a sausage who is friends with Frank and Barry[12][13][14]
* Bill Hader as:
* Firewater, an old Native American bottle of liquor and the leader of the Non-Perishables[14]
* José Tequila, a Mexican bottle of tequila who works for Douche and later gets killed by him after failing to bring Frank and Brenda to him
* Michael Cera as Barry, a deformed sausage who is friends with Frank and Carl[12][14][15]
* James Franco as a drug addict who is the first-known human to discover the food's anthropomorphism after injecting himself with bath salts
* Danny McBride as a jar of honey mustard who is returned to his shelf upon the shopper who purchased him mistaking him for regular mustard and tries to warn Frank and the other products of the reality of the "Great Beyond"[16]
* Craig Robinson as Mr. Grits, an African-American box of grits and a member of the Non-Perishables. He has a grudge against crackers, a pun on the pejorative term
* Paul Rudd as Darren, the manager of Shopwell's who is nicknamed the "dark lord" as he disposes of expired food and spilled items[16]
* Nick Kroll as Douche, a nasty douche and Frank's arch-nemesis who seeks revenge on him for accidentally breaking his nozzle and preventing his arrival to the "Great Beyond"[14][15]
* David Krumholtz as Kareem Abdul-Lavash, a Middle Eastern lavash who has an on-and-off rivalry with Sammy. His name is a play on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar[12][14][15]
* Edward Norton as Sammy Bagel Jr., a neurotic Jewish bagel who has an on-and-off rivalry with Lavash. His name is a play on Sammy Davis Jr.[12][14][15]
* Salma Hayek as Teresa del Taco, a Mexican lesbian taco who is attracted to Brenda[14][17]
* Scott "Diggs" Underwood as:
* Gum, an intelligent but paraplegic wad of chewing gum. He is a parody of Stephen Hawking.
* Twink, a gay Twinkie who is a member of the Non-Perishables
* Anders Holm as Troy, a sausage who likes to pick on Barry
* Lauren Miller Rogen as Camille Toh, a shopper who purchases Frank and Brenda's packages. Her name is a pun on "camel toe".

Additional character voices were provided by Alistair Abell, Iris Apatow, Sugar Lyn Beard, Ian James Corlett, Michael Daingerfield, Brian and Michael Dobson, Ian Hanlin, Maryke Hendrikse, Nicole Oliver, Kelly Sheridan, Jason Simpson, Vincent Tong, Underwood, Sam Vincent and Harland Williams, as well as directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan.

An archival recording of Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" was used for the singing voice of a meatloaf grocery-based caricature of him.[18]

## Production

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Seth Rogen has said that he worked for eight years to get the film made but the content worried most film studios.[19] Noting that the film came from "an innocent place", Rogen stated that "'What would it be like if our food had feelings?' We very quickly realized that it would be fucked up."[20] Evan Goldberg revealed the project to Indiewire in July 2010, stating it was a "top secret super project". Initially, Indiewire was skeptical that the project was real and not a hoax on Goldberg's part, but after vetting, it did confirm that it was in the works.[13] In November 2010, Jonah Hill independently confirmed to MTV News that he was working on an R-rated 3D animated film.[21] Goldberg and executive producer James Weaver said that they had specific targets—Disney and Pixar and DreamWorks films, which they have "ripped apart". Goldberg said, "We're just kind of taking all the conventions of children's movies, and making them disgusting and insane".[12]

The film was formally announced in September 2013 as a partnership between Sony Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, and Rogen, Goldberg and Weaver's Point Grey Pictures.[22] On May 29, 2014, it was announced that the film would be released on June 3, 2016,[23] but the release date was later revised to August 12, 2016. In January 2014, Rogen, Hill, James Franco, and Kristen Wiig were announced as the leads in the film. The other cast includes Edward Norton, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz and Nick Kroll.[15] On April 9, 2014, Salma Hayek was set to lend her voice to the film as Teresa the Taco.[17] It was also announced that Paul Rudd, Danny McBride and Anders Holm would voice characters in the film.[16]

When Rogen originally submitted the film to the Motion Picture Association of America, they gave it an NC-17 rating due to the visibility of pubic hair on Lavash's scrotum during the climactic food orgy scene. Once said pubic hair was removed, the film received its final R rating for "strong crude sexual content, pervasive language and drug use".[24][25][26][27] The film was granted a −12 certificate by France's film classification commission, which was criticized by Catholic groups in the country.[28] The British Board of Film Classification classified the film at 15, although the Blu-Ray release was classified 18 because of supplemental material.[2] In Australia the film was rated MA15+.[29]

## Music

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Sausage Party

Film score by

Alan Menken and Christopher Lennertz

Released| August 5, 2016
Recorded| 2016
Genre| Film score
Length| 74:49
Label| Madison Gate Records
Sony Music Masterworks
Producer| Alan Menken
Christopher Lennertz
Alan Menken film scores chronology
| Mirror Mirror
(2012)  | Sausage Party
(2016)  | Beauty and the Beast
(2017)

|
|

Christopher Lennertz chronology
| The Boss
(2016)  | Sausage Party
(2016)  | Smurfs: The Lost Village
(2017)

|
|

The film's score was composed by Alan Menken and Christopher Lennertz. The film's soundtrack album was released on August 5, 2016, by Madison Gate Records and Sony Music Masterworks.

Track listing

All music is composed by Alan Menken and Christopher Lennertz, except as noted.

No.| Title| Writer(s)| Artist(s)| Length

|
|
|
|

1.| "The Great Beyond"|

* Alan Menken (music)
* Glenn Slater
* Seth Rogen
* Evan Goldberg
* Ariel Shaffir
* Kyle Hunter (lyrics)

| Sausage Party cast| 3:13
2.| "Darren, the Dark Lord"|  |  | 0:55
3.| "Chosen"|  |  | 1:50
4.| "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"| Jim Steinman| Meat Loaf| 5:14
5.| "The Crash"|  |  | 2:34
6.| "Douche Loses It"|  |  | 2:16
7.| "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"| George Michael| Wham!| 3:50
8.| "Our Heroes"|  |  | 2:31
9.| "He's Coming"|  |  | 1:47
10.| "Food Massacre"|  |  | 3:15
11.| "Hungry Eyes"|

* Franke Previte
* John DeNicola

| Eric Carmen| 3:47
12.| "True"| Gary Kemp| Spandau Ballet| 5:31
13.| "The Spooge"|  |  | 3:46
14.| "Magical Sausage"|  |  | 1:40
15.| "Gone"|

* Joshua Epstein
* Mike Higgins
* Dan Nigro
* Daniel Zott

| JR JR| 3:46
16.| "We're Home"|  |  | 3:29
17.| "The Cookbook"|  |  | 1:26
18.| "I Have Proof"|  |  | 3:06
19.| "Big Speech"|  |  | 3:04
20.| "The Big Fight"|  |  | 2:37
21.| "Final Battle"|  |  | 4:04
22.| "It's Your Thing"|

* Ronald Isley
* O'Kelly Isley Jr.
* Rudolph Isley

| The Isley Brothers| 2:46
23.| "Finale"|  |  | 2:24
24.| "Joy to the World"| Hoyt Axton| Three Dog Night| 3:14
25.| "The Great Beyond Around the World"|

* Alan Menken (music)
* Glenn Slater
* Seth Rogen
* Evan Goldberg
* Ariel Shaffir
* Kyle Hunter (lyrics)

| Sausage Party cast| 2:44
Total length:| 74:49

## Release

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Sausage Party was originally set for release on June 3, 2016, but was pushed back to August 12, 2016. A rough cut of the film was shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 14, 2016.[11] The final cut of the film screened at Just for Laughs on July 30, 2016.[30] It premiered one final time in Westwood before the film was theatrically released in the United States on August 12, 2016.[31] The film was released in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2016.[32]

### Box office

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Sausage Party grossed $97.7 million in North America and $42.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $141.3 million, against a budget of $19 million.[7] The film was the highest-grossing R-rated animated film of all time, replacing South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (which held the record for 17 years),[33] until it was surpassed in 2020 by Demon Slayer: Mugen Train.[34] It made a net profit of $47.06 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.[35]

In the United States and Canada, Sausage Party was released on August 12, 2016, alongside Pete's Dragon and Florence Foster Jenkins, and was initially projected to gross $15–20 million from 2,805 theaters in its opening weekend.[5] However, after grossing $3.3 million from Thursday night previews (more than the $1.7 million made by Rogen's Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising in May) and $13.5 million on its first day, weekend projections were increased to $30–35 million. The film ultimately grossed $33.6 million in its opening weekend, finishing second at the box office, behind Suicide Squad.[36]

Outside North America, the biggest markets are the United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Germany, Russia, and Israel, where the film grossed $10.2 million, $6.8 million, $4.1 million, $3.5 million $2.6 million and $2 million, respectively.[37]

### Home media

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Sausage Party was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on November 8, 2016.[38]

## Reception

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### Critical response

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On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 82%, based on 237 reviews, with an average rating of 6.80/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Sausage Party is definitely offensive, but backs up its enthusiastic profanity with an impressively high laugh-to-gag ratio—and a surprisingly thought-provoking storyline."[39] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 66 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[40] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[36][41]

Vince Mancini of Uproxx wrote that "Sausage Party's most charming quality is that it feels exactly like a group of 13-year-olds trying to entertain themselves, with excessive C-bombs and constant groan-worthy food puns."[42] Richard Roeper gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "Despite all the cursing and envelope-pushing and bat-bleep crazy sexual stuff, Sausage Party isn't mean-spirited. It's just... stupid. But also pretty smart. And funny as hell."[43] Lindsey Bahr of Associated Press gave the film a positive review, writing, "There is no one out there making comedies quite like Rogen and Goldberg. They are putting their definitive stamp on the modern American comedy one decency-smashing double entendre at a time."[44]

### Awards and accolades

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Award  | Date of ceremony  | Category  | Recipient(s)  | Result  | Ref.

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Annie Awards | February 4, 2017 | Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated Feature Production  | Kevin Pavlovic  | Nominated  | [45]
Central Ohio Film Critics Association  | January 6, 2017  | Best Animated Feature Film  | Sausage Party | [46]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | November 17, 2016  | Best Original Song – Animated Film | "The Great Beyond" – Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter  | [47][48]
Houston Film Critics Society | January 6, 2017 | Best Animated Feature Film  | Sausage Party | [49][50]
Indiana Film Journalists Association  | December 19, 2016  | Runner-up  | [51]
Best Vocal/Motion Capture Performance  | Nick Kroll | 2nd Place
2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards | May 7, 2017  | Best Comedic Performance | Seth Rogen  | Nominated  | [52]
Village Voice Film Poll | January 6, 2017  | Best Animated Feature  | Sausage Party | 5th place  | [53]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | December 5, 2016 | Best Animated Feature | Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan | Nominated  | [54]

## Controversy

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After the film's release, controversy emerged after anonymous comments attributed to the animators on a Cartoon Brew article suggested that the animators at Nitrogen Studios worked under poor conditions and were forced by co-director Greg Tiernan to work overtime for free. A total of 36 of the 83 animators were blacklisted and went uncredited in the film, believed to be due to their complaints; comments made in anonymous interviews by some of the animators involved in the project by Variety, The Washington Post and The Hollywood Reporter alleged that the comments were accurate. All the animators in the film were reportedly told outright that they would be blacklisted if they refused to work overtime without pay.[55][56][57] In late March 2019, the British Columbia Employment Standards Branch ruled that workers were entitled to receive overtime pay for their work on the film.[58]

## Future

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### Possible sequel

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Rogen has expressed interest in making a sequel to Sausage Party and more animated films aimed for adults. When asked about the possibility of a sequel, Rogen stated: "It's something we talk about, yeah. That's one of the reasons why we took away the [original] ending[59] because we thought, well, if that was the first scene of the next movie it's probably not what you would want it to be, with them just seeing us and finding us basically. But the idea of a live-action/animated movie, like a Who Framed Roger Rabbit?-style hybrid, is also very exciting, mostly because Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is one of my favorite movies of all time."[60]

### Follow-up series

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Main article: Sausage Party: Foodtopia

On October 26, 2022, Sausage Party: Foodtopia, a sequel was greenlit from Amazon Studios to produce 8 episodes with a 2024 release date, with most of the cast involved and co-produced by Sony Pictures Television, Annapurna Television and Point Grey Pictures.[61] In May 2024, it was announced the series would premiere on July 11, 2024.[62]

### Mobile game

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Frank and Brenda, the two main characters of the film, made guest appearances in the mobile fighting game Sausage Legend, released by Milkcorp for iOS and Android, as part of a limited special event that ran from March 6 through July 31, 2017. As this game involves dueling with sausages, players in this game can unlock and control Brenda, who swings Frank around to battle other sausages.[63]

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## External links

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* Media related to Sausage Party at Wikimedia Commons
* Quotations related to Sausage Party at Wikiquote
* Official website
* Sausage Party at IMDb
* Sausage Party at Rotten Tomatoes

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Films directed by Conrad Vernon

* Shrek 2 (2004)
* Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
* Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
* Sausage Party (2016)
* The Addams Family (2019)
* The Addams Family 2 (2021)
* Shrek 5 (2026)

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Films directed by Greg Tiernan

* Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009)
* Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue (2010)
* Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels (2011)
* Sausage Party (2016)
* The Addams Family (2019)
* The Addams Family 2 (2021)

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Point Grey Pictures

Films|

* 50/50 (2011)
* This Is the End (2013)
* Neighbors (2014)
* The Interview (2014)
* The Night Before (2015)
* Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
* Sausage Party (2016)
* The Disaster Artist (2017)
* Blockers (2018)
* Game Over, Man! (2018)
* Long Shot (2019)
* Good Boys (2019)
* An American Pickle (2020)
* Console Wars (2020)
* Joy Ride (2023)
* Cobweb (2023)
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
* Miller's Girl (2024)
* 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank (TBA)
* The Wrong Girls (TBA)

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* Preacher (2016–19)
* Future Man (2017–20)
* Black Monday (2019–22)
* The Boys (2019–present)
* Invincible (2021–present)
* Santa Inc. (2021)
* Pam & Tommy (2022)
* The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022)
* Paul T. Goldman (2023)
* Gen V (2023)
* The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down (2024)
* Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024)
* Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2024)
* The Studio (2025)

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Sony theatrical animated features

Sony Pictures Animation

* Open Season (2006)
* Surf's Up (2007)
* Open Season 2 (2008)IR
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
* Open Season 3 (2010)IR
* The Smurfs (2011)
* Arthur Christmas (2011)
* The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
* Hotel Transylvania (2012)
* The Smurfs 2 (2013)
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
* Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
* Goosebumps (2015)
* Open Season: Scared Silly (2015)IR
* Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
* The Emoji Movie (2017)
* The Star (2017)
* Peter Rabbit (2018)
* Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
* Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
* The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
* The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)LR
* Wish Dragon (2021)IR
* Vivo (2021)LR
* Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)IR
* Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
* KPop Demon Hunters (2025)LR

Upcoming|

* Goat (2026)
* Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027)

Madhouse

* Memories (1995)
* Metropolis (2001)
* Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
* Paprika (2006)

Aniplex/Funimation/Crunchyroll

* Rurouni Kenshin: The Motion Picture (1997)
* Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
* Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
* Your Name (2016)
* Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017)
* Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2018)
* My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
* Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
* Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
* Sing a Bit of Harmony (2021)
* My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)
* Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
* Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
* Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night (2021)
* Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village (2022)
* The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
* Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
* One Piece Film: Red (2022)
* Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends (2022)
* That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie – Scarlet Bond (2023)
* Suzume (2023)
* Psycho-Pass Providence (2023)
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Hashira Training (2024)
* Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out (2024)
* Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2024)
* Spy × Family Code: White (2024)

Live-action/animated

* Stuart Little (1999)
* Stuart Little 2 (2002)
* Pixels (2015)
* Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)
* Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)
* Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
* Paddington in Peru (2025)

Co-productions

* 1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
* The Magic World of Topo Gigio (1961)
* The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963)
* Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (1964)
* The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
* Jack and the Beanstalk (1974)
* American Pop (1981)
* Heavy Metal (1981)
* Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986)
* Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988)
* The Swan Princess (1994)
* Manuelita (1999)
* The Trumpet of the Swan (2001)
* Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
* Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
* Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
* The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
* Steamboy (2004)
* Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
* Monster House (2006)
* Persepolis (2007)
* The Sky Crawlers (2008)
* Waltz with Bashir (2008)
* Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)IR
* First Squad: The Moment of Truth (2009)IR
* Planet 51 (2009)
* The Illusionist (2010)
* Legend of the Millennium Dragon (2011)
* The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
* Adventures in Zambezia (2012)
* Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) IR
* Resident Evil: Damnation (2012) LR
* The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
* Sausage Party (2016)
* The Red Turtle (2016)
* Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017)LR
* Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)LR
* Ruben Brandt, Collector (2019) LR
* Tabaluga (2019)LR
* The Barkers: Mind the Cats! (2020) IR
* Secret Magic Control Agency (2021)IR
* Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)IR
* Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)IR
* The Garfield Movie (2024)

Franchises

* The Swan Princess (1994–2023)
* Stuart Little (1999–2005)
* Final Fantasy (2001–2016)
* Open Season (2006–2015)
* Resident Evil (since 2008)
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009–2013)
* The Smurfs (2011–2017)
* Starship Troopers (2012–2017)
* Hotel Transylvania (2012–2022)
* Marvel Anime (2013–2014)
* Goosebumps (2015–2018)
* The Angry Birds Movie (2016–2019)
* Sword Art Online (since 2017)
* Peter Rabbit (2018–2021)
* My Hero Academia (since 2018)
* Spider-Verse (since 2018)
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (since 2021)
* Dragon Ball (since 2022)
* Garfield (since 2024)

See also

* Sony Pictures Animation
* Unproduced projects
* Sony Pictures Imageworks
* Crunchyroll, LLC
* Madhouse
* Sony Pictures Television Kids
* Adelaide Productions
* Screen Gems Cartoons
* United Productions of America

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* LR Limited release

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Annapurna Pictures

Annapurna Interactive

Films|

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| Released|

* Passion Play (2011)
* Waking Madison (2011)
* Main Street (2011)
* Catch .44 (2011)
* Lawless (2012)
* The Master (2012)
* Killing Them Softly (2012)
* Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
* Spring Breakers (2013)
* The Grandmaster (2013)
* Her (2013)
* American Hustle (2013)
* Foxcatcher (2014)
* Terminator Genisys (2015; uncredited)
* Joy (2015)
* Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
* Wiener-Dog (2016)
* 20th Century Women (2016)
* The Bad Batch (2017)
* Detroit (2017)
* Brad's Status (2017)
* Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
* Phantom Thread (2017)
* Sorry to Bother You (2018)
* The Sisters Brothers (2018)
* If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018; uncredited)
* Vice (2018)
* Destroyer (2018)
* Booksmart (2019)
* Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019)
* Hustlers (2019)
* Wounds (2019)
* Bombshell (2019)
* Kajillionaire (2020)
* On the Count of Three (2022)
* She Said (2022)
* Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023)
* Nightbitch (2024)

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Upcoming|

* Not Fade Away (TBA)
* The Echo Wife (TBA)
* I Love Boosters (TBA)
* The Invite (TBA)

Animation|

| Released|

* Sausage Party (2016)
* Missing Link (2019)
* Nimona (2023)

Upcoming|

* Foo (TBA)
* Untitled film by Nick Bruno (TBA)
* Stray (TBA)

Television|

| Live-action|

| Ended|

* Soundtrack (2019)
* The Plot Against America (2020)
* Monsterland (2020)
* Pam & Tommy (2022)
* The Staircase (2022)
* I Love That for You (2022)
* Paul T. Goldman (2023)
* Dead Ringers (2023)
* The Changeling (2023)

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Animation|

| Ongoing|

* Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024)

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People|

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