Video game adaptations are ten-a-penny these days, but what about movies that adapt video game adaptations? Okay, even we're confused now, but imagine your favorite video game and all the dangers within it suddenly breaking into the real world and terrorizing you. Now is that something you might be interested in? Throw in some NPCs, some avatar swaps and one of Sony's most successful franchises ever is born. And it's back for a fond farewell.
Sony Pictures has officially released the first trailer for Jumanji: Open World, bringing Dwayne Johnson back alongside Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan for the franchise's final installment. The movie arrives in theaters on December 25, 2026, and follows the gang as the dangerous video game world of Jumanji breaks free of its digital confines and begins wreaking havoc in reality.
The Jumanji franchise has been a gigantic success for Sony Pictures, grossing over $2 billion worldwide to date. The biggest hit remains 2017's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which earned an extraordinary $961.6 million against a $90 million production budget, while 2019's Jumanji: The Next Level followed with another $803.3 million worldwide. Together, the two newer films have generated more than $1.76 billion at the global box office, making the upcoming final installment a potentially enormous Christmas release for Sony.
What Is 'Jumanji: Open World' About?
This time, the avatars have escaped into the real world while Spencer (Alex Wolff), his mom Janice (Marin Hinkle) and others end up inserted into the world of Jumanji instead. So instead of body swapping, it's world swapping and far more is going to go wrong this way.
The new movie follows 2019's Jumanji: The Next Level, which reunited the cast after the enormous success of 2017's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Those movies reinvented the premise of the original 1995 adventure, which starred Robin Williams, by replacing the mysterious board game with a video game that transformed its players into larger-than-life characters.
Alongside the returning quartet, the cast includes Nick Jonas (Midway), Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), and Danny DeVito (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia). Wolff (Hereditary) and Hinkle (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) also return as Spencer and Janice, respectively.
Jumanji: Open World arrives exclusively in theaters on December 25, 2026.
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