“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” closed 2017 as the year’s highest-grossing release and the seventh highest-grossing domestic movie of all time with $517.1 million. Those veracity of those alleged production costs have raised eyebrows around town given the film’s Hawaii location and starry cast, but regardless of creative accounting and aggressive spinning, the result is impressive.
Sony claims that “Jumanji” has a $90 million budget. It also scored with “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” a reboot of its wall-crawler franchise, and “Baby Driver,” but failed to turn “The Dark Tower” into a viable movie property. The “Jumanji” sequel has also done well internationally, racking up $350 million worldwide, and has provided a much-needed hit for a studio that has struggled to keep pace with the Disney’s and Warner Bros.’s of the world. It now has a hefty $185.7 million domestic gross and should continue to draw crowds in 2018. The fantasy reboot, which finds Johnson, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart transported into a video game world, has outperformed expectations, picking up a lordly $66.5 million over the holiday weekend. In a battle of box office heavyweights, Luke Skywalker just managed to hold off Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the world rang in another year.ĭisney and LucasFilm’s “ Star Wars: The Last Jedi” retained first place for the four-day New Year’s holiday weekend despite steep competition from Sony’s “ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.” “Last Jedi” picked up an estimated $68.4 million, bringing its domestic haul to $533.1 million.ĭon’t weep for “Jumanji,” however.
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