{"id":1423,"date":"2022-03-13T14:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/13\/sony-pulls-crunchyroll-home-entertainment-releases-from-russia\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:50:55","slug":"sony-pulls-crunchyroll-home-entertainment-releases-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/13\/sony-pulls-crunchyroll-home-entertainment-releases-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony pulls Crunchyroll, home entertainment releases from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/12\/22974228\/sony-halts-crunchyroll-theatrical-releases-russia-ukraine\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/12\/22974228\/sony-halts-crunchyroll-theatrical-releases-russia-ukraine<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.727933541018\">\n<p id=\"5es5Bs\">Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has suspended all operations in Russia, halting home entertainment releases, such as <em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em>, and temporarily blocking access to its anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/sony-pictures-russia-spider-man-no-way-home-crunchyroll-1235202319\/\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>. The move will also pause any TV distribution deals in the country.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5zRMsF\">\u201cWe stand with many businesses around the world who have now paused their business operations in Russia, and in support of the humanitarian efforts currently underway in Ukraine and the surrounding region,\u201d SPE CEO Tony Vinciquerra said in an email to employees seen by <em>Variety<\/em>. \u201cWe have also halted our planned home entertainment releases, including \u2018Spider-Man: No Way Home,\u2019 and any future television distribution deals. And just this morning, Crunchyroll suspended its anime streaming service in Russia\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"0I8yB9\"><q>Sony already pulled <em>Morbius <\/em>and other theatrical releases<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"rQcn97\">Sony, which owns anime streaming service Funimation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/8\/9\/22617356\/sony-crunchyroll-att-funimation-acquisition\">purchased Crunchyroll last August<\/a> and later announced that it would be merging both services \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/1\/22956273\/crunchyroll-funimation-anime-library-merge-sony\">a process that has already started taking place<\/a>. As pointed out by <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/anime\/news\/crunchyroll-suspends-service-in-russia\/\"><em>ComicBook.com<\/em><\/a>, a translated message on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/crunchyroll-service-message\/index.html\">Crunchyroll\u2019s Russian website<\/a> says that it\u2019s \u201cforced to suspend its work in Russia,\u201d and notes that users won\u2019t be charged for their subscriptions while the service goes dark in the country. Funimation already <a href=\"https:\/\/help.funimation.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360047208731-Where-is-Funimation-available-\">isn\u2019t available in Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Le7sqz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/02\/morbius-russia-release-pulled-sony-marvel-1234962304\/\">Sony already pulled <em>Morbius <\/em>and other future theatrical releases<\/a> from Russia last month, with the Sony-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/9\/22969600\/sony-interactive-entertainment-playstation-suspending-hardware-software-shipments-russia-store\">PlayStation suspending all sales and shipments<\/a> to the country early this week. Sony\u2019s music division announced that it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/10\/1085814568\/sony-warner-universal-russia\">shutting down its operations in Russia<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lVW5ZI\">In addition to Sony, entertainment giants spanning television, movies, and gaming have also yanked sales and services from Russia, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-60566286\">Warner Bros., Disney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/paramount-sonic-the-lost-city-russia-1235192858\/\">Paramount<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/03\/universal-russia-economic-sanction-1234968417\/\">Universal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/6\/22964565\/netflix-shuts-down-services-russia-ukraine-invasion\">Netflix<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/4\/22961869\/nintendo-eshop-russia-maintenance-mode\">quite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/5\/22963195\/activision-blizzard-halts-new-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion\">a few<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/7\/22965890\/ubisoft-take-two-blocking-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion\">major<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/4\/22961445\/microsoft-russia-ukraine-sales-ban-xbox-azure-windows-office\">gaming companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/12\/22974228\/sony-halts-crunchyroll-theatrical-releases-russia-ukraine\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/12\/22974228\/sony-halts-crunchyroll-theatrical-releases-russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has suspended all operations in Russia, halting home entertainment releases, such as Spider-Man: No Way Home, and temporarily blocking access to its anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, according to a report from Variety. The move will also pause any TV distribution deals in the country. \u201cWe stand with many businesses around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","category-technology","tag-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sony pulls Crunchyroll, home entertainment releases from Russia - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/13\/sony-pulls-crunchyroll-home-entertainment-releases-from-russia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sony pulls Crunchyroll, home entertainment releases from Russia - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has suspended all operations in Russia, halting home entertainment releases, such as Spider-Man: No Way Home, and temporarily blocking access to its anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, according to a report from Variety. 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