Sony Pictures Animation's emoji movie—which was announced last summer—is still happening.

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During a presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Sony Pictures Animation president Kristine Belson revealed new details on the still-unnamed film.Written by Eric Siegel (Men at Work) and Anthony Leondis (Lilo & Stitch 2), the emoji film will center on "industrious emoji" who live and work "inside your phone" in a secret world. Viewers will enter through the "text app" to discover the emojis' home, Emoji Valley.As reported by The Wrap , the emojis will enter the home screen—called "the world of the wallpaper"—to find new, massive worlds inside each individual app. Major music streaming service Spotify is the first smartphone app to be revealed as a film tie-in, sources at The Wrap said. Sony's emoji project is expected to hit theaters in 2017.

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