--- description: Sony Pictures Animation will be making a movie about emoji. The deal comes after a bidding process with Warner Bros. and Paramount title: An Emoji Movie Is In the Works image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5bf9900309fb8f4e/69885be15f570f0184b1c8ac/ap_125099713336.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # An Actual Emoji Movie Is in the Works ## Video: 30 Second Tech Trick: How To Beat Twitter's 140 Character Limit [Watch (HLS stream): 30 Second Tech Trick: How To Beat Twitter's 140 Character Limit](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/syrPXCgJ.m3u8) (0:34)  _Published 2014-12-08. Here’s a crafty way to break the Twitter limit: Just type out a super-long tweet, take a screenshot of it, and post that screenshot. Boom! You’ve beaten the limit_ by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 22, 2015 4:57 AM CUT  Fans wearing emoji masks watch a Hong Kong Seven rugby match in Hong Kong on March 28, 2015 Fans wearing emoji masks watch a Hong Kong Seven rugby match in Hong Kong on March 28, 2015AP by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 22, 2015 4:57 AM CUT Hollywood is impeccably good at turning a profit on insipid fads. In the five years since Universal Pictures released the animated film _Despicable Me_, a cultish cottage industry has sprung up around the Minions, the film’s manic yellow lozenges who ultimately proved lucrative enough to earn their own spinoff. They’re globally ubiquitous — you have Minion Tic Tacs, Minion-themed [weddings](http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardhjames/this-couple-had-a-minion-themed-wedding#.feKnW6mA5 "undefined") in Britain, a curious [Minion-inspired burger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF%5FWRid5RUg "undefined") at McDonald’s restaurants in Hong Kong — and the producers are laughing all the way to the bank. It’s not terribly surprising, then, that Sony Pictures Animation will be making a movie about emoji, the delightful little ideograms you use to caption your Instagrams or pepper your messages. [The planned project](http://deadline.com/2015/07/emoji-movie-sony-pictures-animation-anthony-leondis-kung-fu-panda-secrets-of-the-masters-1201482768/ "undefined"), Deadline reports, comes after a supposedly heated bidding process between Sony, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures that culminated in a deal in the high six figures. There’s money to be made in twee hieroglyphics. Or maybe it’s simply low-hanging fruit, given that the emoji library is less a typeface and more a means of illustrating the world at large. Your cast, setting and props are ready to go. The ensemble could be colossal: Apple’s emoji library is populated by 93 individual little yellow people, 15 families of four, 10 happy couples and seven anthropomorphic cats. Santa Claus could make an appearance. The library’s latest iteration offers 42 national flags, so it could be set anywhere — Israel! South Korea! In any event, the movie won’t be completely revolutionary. The emoji-as-medium approach to filmmaking has earned some mileage as a music video strategy already, the best example thus far coming in [Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “Drunk in Love.” ](https://vimeo.com/88073857 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3967098/emoji-movie-sony-pictures-animation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3967098/emoji-movie-sony-pictures-animation/"},"headline":"An Actual Emoji Movie Is in the Works","datePublished":"2015-07-22T04:57:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:24.452Z","description":"No word yet on which members of Apple's vast emoji library will be making an appearance","url":"https://time.com/3967098/emoji-movie-sony-pictures-animation/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Hollywood","Sony","entertainment","emoji"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5bf9900309fb8f4e/69885be15f570f0184b1c8ac/ap_125099713336.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5bf9900309fb8f4e/69885be15f570f0184b1c8ac/ap_125099713336.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hong Kong Rugby Sevens: beer, costumes and, somewhere, a result","caption":"Hong Kong Rugby Sevens: beer, costumes and, somewhere, a result","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3967098/emoji-movie-sony-pictures-animation/","name":"An Actual Emoji Movie Is in the Works"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"30 Second Tech Trick: How To Beat Twitter's 140 Character Limit","description":"Here’s a crafty way to break the Twitter limit: Just type out a super-long tweet, take a screenshot of it, and post that screenshot. 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