It also offered fun new variations on what fans liked about Welcome to the Jungle while offering several solid action sequences to boot. Jumanji: The Next Level pulled, save for China, grosses comparable to Aquaman with far less fanfare and far more competition. As such, movies like Disney’s Ant-Man and the Wasp are written about and discussed on social media to a greater extent than Universal’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, despite doubling the MCU sequel’s domestic and global take. Their films and TV shows, be it the MCU movies, the Star Wars flicks or the toons, are calibrated, intentionally or not, to be excessively meme or gif-friendly and to be endlessly speculated upon before and during release. While Disney had a ridiculous year in 2019 (nearly $12 billion in global grosses), they have also mastered the ability of dominating the media news cycle. Moreover, it pulled this off with arguably a fraction of the media coverage that greeted Frozen II, Star Wars IX and even the hyperventilating reaction to Cats. Sure, it helped that Cats, Black Christmas, Richard Jewell, Bombshell and Spies in Disguise underwhelmed or outright flopped, but it also had the incredibly leggy Frozen II ($478 million from a $130 million debut and $1.45 billion worldwide) on its tail. It’s an 800 lbs gorilla thriving despite opening almost concurrently with a 1600 lbs gorilla. They have earned absolutely top-tier box office, especially in North America, despite having another mega-movie playing right alongside. That’s the oddest thing about the last two Jumanji movies. Jumanji 3 had to fend off Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which earned $516 million domestic and $1.074 billion worldwide. It came within $18 million of Joker and Aquaman, the latter of which was the unmitigated mega-movie of Christmas 2018.
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