Sony Pictures’s CinemaCon 2016 presentation showcased upcoming aniamted films

Kristen Belson takes the stage to talk about the upcoming animated projects

On the Sony Pictures Animation front, five different projects were brought up, including Smurfs: The Lost Village (4/7/17), The Emoji Movie (8/11/17), an untitled nativity story, told from the point of view of a donkey and his animal friends (12/8/17), Hotel Transylvania 3 (9/21/18) and the animated Spider-Man film written by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (12/21/18).

Describing The Emoji Movie as “a movie that’s about the power of self expression,” Sony Pictures Animation President Kristine Belson teased a storyline set inside an iPhone. The Emojis within live in a place called Emoji valley and wind up having to leave the village to head into the “world of wallpaper.” From there, every icon on a phone becomes its own distinct location.





“We’re going to bring in some really, really funny new monster recruits,” Belson then teased of the next Hotel Transylvania while keeping relatively mum on the animated Spider-Man film.

“This is a vision of Spider-Man that will take your breath away,” she said. “It will break new ground for both animation and the superhero genre.”