Jumanji 3 is happening on Dec. 11, 2026, Sony has just announced. That’s the same pre-Christmas slot that Sony has launched the entire Jumanji franchise. The movie will have full command of Imax and PLF screens that weekend.
Director Jake Kasdan and star posse Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan are expected to return and in talks.
Nothing else is dated on Dec. 11, 2026, but Jumanji 3 opens one week before Disney’s untitled Star Wars movie and Warner Bros/Legendary’s supposed release of Dune 3 on Dec. 18.
The original Jumanji came out in 1995 with Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst starring grossing $262.8M worldwide; a hit back in the day. The movie followed a group of kids who unleash a safari game into the reality of their home town. The original movie was shot in Keene, NH.
But then Kasdan and Johnson had a way in to reboot the entire franchise and that entailed a bunch of kids getting stuck in a videogame with alternative version avatars from who they are in real life. 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle went on to gross $962.5M at the global box office followed by 2019’s Jumanji: The Next Level doing another $801.6M. The entire trilogy counts over $2.02 billion around the globe.
Kasdan and Johnson are reteaming this month on the $200M Amazon MGM Studios Christmas feature, Red One, which also stars Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons and Kiernan Shipka. The movie, opening on Nov. 15, follows the rescue of Santa Claus (Simmons) by his head of security (Johnson) and a notorious bounty hunter (Evans).