Even a multiplier like the Hobbit movies (or Rogue One) gets it to $216 million, while a run like Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ($186 million from a $39 million launch), What Women Want ($181 million/$33 million) and Ocean’s 11 ($183 million/$38 million) gets it a domestic finish between $286 million and $330 million. Even if it’s not as leggy as the last movie, Jumanji: The Next Level has earned $60.1 million in its first three days. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is still the biggest non-Disney/non-Universal/non-comic book grosser since Paramount’s Transformers: Age of Extinction back in 2014. The closest thing that comes to mind is (by default) Universal’s Fast & Furious series, which began life as an overperforming B-movie franchise about street racing thieves and evolved into an A-level franchise that rivals the 007 series, the Mission: Impossible films and essentially anything else that isn’t the MCU, a Disney 90’s nostalgia play or a Star Wars movie. Jumanji was a movie that earned $100 million domestic in 1995 mostly on the strength of Robin Williams and then-groundbreaking CGI effects that brought the book’s boardgame adventure to life. The likes of Star Trek, The Force Awakens, Batman Begins, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Casino Royale and Jurassic World took formerly A-level franchises (the first two Star Trek movies both broke the opening weekend records in 19) and returned them, if only temporarily, to top-tier blockbuster status.
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