FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS TO RELEASE MAMORU HOSODA’S ‘SCARLET’ EXCLUSIVELY IN IMAX® ON FEBRUARY 6, 2026
The subtitled version of the film will receive a one-week qualifying run in IMAX this December before expanding nationwide in standard theaters on February 13, 2026
NEW YORK (November 19, 2025) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release the subtitled version of SCARLET exclusively in IMAX on February 6, 2026 before expanding nationwide on February 13, 2026 with both subtitled and dubbed versions of the film in standard theaters. The film, written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Mamoru Hosoda, will have a one-week qualifying run on IMAX screens in 10 cities on December 12, 2025 prior to its wider release in the new year. The animated film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival before making its North American and New York debuts at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival, respectively.
From visionary filmmaker Hosoda comes a powerful, time-bending animated adventure about SCARLET, a medieval-era, sword fighting princess on a dangerous quest to avenge the death of her father. After failing at her mission and finding herself gravely injured in the Otherworld that exists somewhere between life and death, she encounters an idealistic young man from our present day who not only helps her to heal but shows her the possibility of a future free of bitterness and rage. When confronted again by her father's killer, Scarlet faces her most daunting battle: can she break the cycle of hatred and find meaning in life beyond revenge?
SCARLET is produced by Yuichiro Saito under Studio CHIZU, the animation studio co-founded by Saito and Hosoda, Toshimi Tanio under Nippon TV and Nozomu Takahashi, under Studio CHIZU. Sony Pictures co-produced and co-financed, in addition to Studio CHIZU and Nippon TV. Sony Pictures Releasing International is distributing SCARLET throughout the rest of the world for Columbia Pictures.
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Michael Barker and Tom Bernard serve as co-presidents of Sony Pictures Classics—an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment they founded with Marcie Bloom in January 1992—which distributes, produces, and acquires independent films from around the world. Barker and Bernard have released prestigious films that have won 42 Academy Awards® (38 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered 190 Academy Award® nominations (164 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best Picture nominations for I’M STILL HERE, THE FATHER, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, WHIPLASH, AMOUR, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.
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