SONY PICTURES CORE

Enjoy a cinema experience in the comfort of your own home with select exclusive Sony Pictures premieres and hundreds of movies to rent or buy on your PlayStation console1.

What is SONY PICTURES CORE?

A new entertainment app for PS5® and PS4® consoles that brings cinema-quality features into your home, including exclusive benefits for PlayStation® Plus members4. Get it now from the Media space on your PS5 console, or via PlayStation™ Store on your PS4.

Up to 2,000 titles to rent or buy

Watch the best of Sony Pictures entertainment on-demand, including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Uncharted, 65, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife1.

Exclusive bonus content

Dive into behind-the-scenes content, director's commentaries, and exclusive offers, only with SONY PICTURES CORE2.

A cinematic experience at home

Experience the largest collection of IMAX Enhanced movies available on any service, plus access to the highest quality formats including 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos sound3.

Exclusive PlayStation Plus benefits

Enjoy exclusive SONY PICTURES CORE benefits as a PlayStation Plus member

Sony Pictures Catalogue access

PlayStation Plus Premium members have access to a curated catalogue of up to 100 movies4 to stream on demand from SONY PICTURES CORE.

Stream Crunchyroll episodes

Content from Crunchyroll, including episodes from popular series such as Eighty Six, Iruma-Kun and To Your Eternity, is now available on the Sony Pictures Catalogue as part of the PlayStation Plus Premium membership. 

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

The world’s favorite bad boys are back — but this time, Miami’s finest are on the run. Don’t miss the summer’s biggest action comedy, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Buy or rent now on SONY PICTURES CORE.

SONY PICTURES CORE FAQs

SONY PICTURES CORE is an entertainment app for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles where you can rent, buy, or stream movies.

There are three ways to watch movies on SONY PICTURES CORE, but each begins with launching the app and creating an account.

Once signed into your account, you can select a movie, TV show, or other content by clicking on the artwork, and from there you will have the option to rent, buy or (in some cases) instantly stream the content:

  1. When renting a movie, you will have 30 days to initiate playback and 48 hours to finish the movie after pressing play.
  2. When buying a movie, it will be added to your Library, and you’ll be able to access that movie as many times as you like when signed into your account on SONY PICTURES CORE.
  3. If the movie is part of a streaming package included with a PlayStation Plus Premium/Deluxe subscription or other streaming offer, you will be able to watch (stream) at no additional cost.  

No, you don’t need to be a Plus member to buy or rent movies from SONY PICTURES CORE, but active PlayStation Plus Premium/Deluxe members will have access to exclusive benefits not available to everyone else.

It’s free to sign up for an account. Once you’ve created your account in the app, you can buy or rent movies. You may be eligible for additional content based on your active PS Plus Premium/Deluxe subscription.

Depending on the country in which you’ve created your account, you can choose from up to 2,000 Sony movies to buy or rent.  Availability varies by territory. 

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age by which you can legally enter into contracts under the law of your jurisdiction, to create an account, view content, and complete transactions on the app.

Sony Movie Credits FAQs

Sony Movie Credits will allow Sony Pictures Core users on eligible PlayStations to claim credit(s) within the Sony Pictures Core application that can be used to redeem for movies.

Note: Please see the CREDITS portion of the FAQs for information regarding credits.

Users who purchase an eligible device or participate in an eligible promotion can qualify for movie credits. Your eligibility for and use of Movie Credits is subject to the terms of any applicable promotion and the Sony Picture Core terms found here: https://www.sonypicturescore.com/termsofservice/EN/CA.

Note: If you think that you are entitled to credits and have not received credit(s), please reach out to our Customer Service team.

Users who participate in an eligible promotion can claim their credits in one of the following ways, depending on the details of the offer: 

  1. Launch the Sony Pictures Core application on PlayStation, click the highlighted MY LIBRARY icon in the navigation menu, and claim your credits within that tab. 
  2. For some offers, a credit voucher code will be emailed to your Sony Pictures Core associated email. Navigate to account settings in the app and – under the “Redeem Voucher” tab – enter the voucher code found in your email.

Note: Once Credit(s) are claimed, the number of credit(s) will be updated within the ticket icon in the bottom left corner of the application.

To use movie credits, navigate to the movie you want to redeem and select the REDEEM button.

Credit balance will be shown within the movie ticket icon at the bottom of the left navigation menu.

If a  refund is issued for an item purchased as part of a promotion that awards movie credits, the associated credits will be removed alongside the refunded item.

Note: If you have had your credit(s) removed and think that you should have credits, please reach out to our Customer Service team.

Titles and availability vary by market. Access requires a Sony Pictures Core app account, subject to Sony Pictures Core Terms of Service. Must be age 18+.

2 Bonus content may not be available on all consoles.

3 Supported titles and format availability varies by market.

4Availability of content varies over time.

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5Offer valid between June 26th to July 10th, 2024. Number of movie credits varies based on plan and membership status. PS Plus is subject to a recurring subscription fee taken automatically until cancellation. Terms apply: play.st/psplus-usageterms. Separate download of the Sony Pictures Core App is required to redeem movie credits. Must be 18+ to register for a Sony Pictures Core account. Movie credits must be claimed and redeemed in App by July 10th, 2025. Sony Picture Core terms apply: https://www.sonypicturescore.com/termsofservice

6Exclusions apply.