Overview
- Sony released a new poster and fresh marketing materials on Monday that emphasize the film’s premise of the Jumanji game breaking out into the real world.
- The movie’s principal cast and creative team have returned, with Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan starring and Jake Kasdan directing from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg.
- Dwayne Johnson and studio posts describe the film as the final entry in the rebooted trilogy and say the production was dedicated to Robin Williams after Johnson marked the production wrap on social media.
- The studio moved the film into Christmas week, creating direct box-office proximity to other major tentpoles, and outlets currently report conflicting release days with Sony Pictures UK posting Dec. 23 and other official posts and trade coverage citing Dec. 25.
- The Jumanji reboot proved commercially strong—its two predecessors grossed more than $1.7 billion worldwide—so the holiday timing aims at families but raises questions about screen availability and staying power against competing December releases.