Unlock Hours of Smurf-tastic Family Fun With the SMURF-O-VISION 2 App Available on the App Store

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Papa Smurf, Smurfette and Clumsy Smurf come alive for fans of all ages with the new Smurf-O-Vision 2 app from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE). The app, available for free from App Store for the iPad^®, iPhone^® and iPod^® Touch, was first released in the fall of 2011 and boasts more than 800,000 downloads to date. The second installment of the app features two new ‘Smurf-a-rific’ updates, Magic Movie Maker and Smurfy Seek and Find. Now, families can unlock hours of enhanced, interactive activities in advance of Sony Pictures Animation’s THE SMURFS 2, debuting exclusively on the Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D™ Combo Pack* Dec. 3.

Magic Movie Maker challenges fans to share their creative look at THE SMURFS 2 by creating their own, customized mini-movies starring their favorite characters and backdrops, along with the option to include personal dialogue or narration, and final touches, such as music, sound effects and magic spells. Mini-movies can be saved to the producer’s device, and then shared with family and friends.

Fans can extend their ‘Magic Movie’ making capabilities by exploring the app’s second activity, Smurfy Seek and Find, which is played by syncing the app to THE SMURFS 2 2D Blu-ray and engaging with key scenes from the film. The game challenges fans to find hidden Smurfs and objects within each scene on the television. Each level unlocks new characters, backgrounds, sound effects, magic spells and more, which can be collected to make the Smurf-iest of movies possible with the Magic Movie Maker.

*Blu-ray 3D™ Combo Pack includes Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital HD UltraViolet^™

*Blu-ray Combo Pack includes Blu-ray, DVD & Digital HD UltraViolet^™

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Sony Pictures Animation produces a variety of animated and family entertainment for audiences around the world. The studio is following its worldwide comedy hits—the 2012 monster hit comedy Hotel Transylvania, the hybrid live action/animated blockbusters The Smurfsand The Smurfs 2, and the 2009 mouth-watering Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs—with the family comedy Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 in theaters now. Sony Pictures Animation also released a brand new mini-movie on DVD and television this Fall, The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow. The studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas; and the Academy Award® nominated stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. In 2007, Surf’s Up also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The division, whose first feature film Open Season led to a very successful movie franchise, turned 10 in 2012. Sony Pictures Animation is an operating unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions.