Jumanji mbox office7/13/2023 ![]() Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg’s The Post came in fourth with $12.1 million, putting its domestic total just over $45 million. The blatant Heat rip-off pulled in $15.3 million and, according to Box Office Mojo, outperformed its expectations. Just behind 12 Strong was another debut: STX Films’ Den of Thieves. 12 Strong did receive an “A” grade from Cinemascore, so people generally liked what they saw, but, clearly, needed more horses and fewer soldiers to appeal to a wider base. Jumanji’s stiffest for this weekend was 12 Strong - better known as the Horse Soldier movie with not enough horses - which came in second with about $16.5 million on its opening weekend. That’s to be expected only one January opening has ever topped $42 million domestically, and that was 2015’s American Sniper. Of course, it helps that Jumanji’s competition has not been, uh, the most impressive. Once you see this movie, it makes total sense. What I’m saying is, the Jumanji sequel dominating the box office is a surprise only if you haven’t seen Jumanji. When my theater gave Jumanji a brief standing ovation, I wasn’t even that perplexed. This movie is wild.) That Jumanji’s numbers started picking up pace around the holidays makes sense - it’s accessible and family-friendly, if you can stomach a couple of penis jokes. (There’s even a part at the end that made me shed a literal tear of joy, and it involved Nick Jonas’s character. It’s not giving you anything you haven’t seen before in a tentpole blockbuster, but the principal cast - Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan - has superb chemistry, the humor is surprisingly fresh, it has a frenetic pace, and the entire thing leaves you with a warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from the movie’s very earnest heart. Here’s the thing: To my genuine surprise, and despite what purist Claire McNear thinks, Jumanji is awesome. It is Sony’s highest-grossing movie that has nothing to do with Spider-Man. It is the seventh-highest-grossing movie of 2017, above superhero movies like Thor: Ragnarok and Justice League. Jumanji’s performing better than Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and it came out a week before it. The movie has been out for five weekends and just won the weekend box office for the third week in a row, pulling in $20 million. You know what is surprising? Said blockbuster being Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. ![]() So it’s not surprising that a December blockbuster crosses into the next year and still reigns supreme in the middle of January. The box office becomes a barren wasteland, and competition is thin. Since the eligibility window for Oscar movies closes at the end of the calendar year - and lots of folks go on vacation around this time - January is typically a dumping ground for bad movies.
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