Buckle up for more body-swapping hijinks in Jumanji: Open World trailer

Let's face it, the mid-December box office will be dominated by Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three , but for those seeking fun holiday family fare, Jumanji: Open World opens the very next week on Christmas Day. Sony Pictures just released a new trailer for director Jake Kasd

Let's face it, the mid-December box office will be dominated by Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three , but for those seeking fun holiday family fare, Jumanji: Open World opens the very next week on Christmas Day. Sony Pictures just released a new trailer for director Jake Kasdan’s sequel to his 2019 hit, Jumanji: The Next Level , teasing the usual wacky hijinks with a twist that calls back to the original 1995 film. As previously reported , Kasdan gave the franchise a welcome major overhaul with the release of 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle , updating the original board game into a vintage video game and giving us a hugely entertaining action-adventure.

Welcome to the Jungle racked up over $960 million at the global box office and spawned the equally successful 2019 sequel Jumanji: The Next Level . A third film was always in the cards: The Next Level featured a tantalizing mid-credits scene in which a heater repairman (Lamorne Morris) visits Spencer Gilpin’s (Alex Wolff's) house, sees the broken video game console, and inadvertently triggers the game. The COVID-19 pandemic paused the third film’s development, but things picked up again in 2024, and here we are.

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