Disney’s A Quiet Place’s Emily Blunt as Dr. Lily Houghton, and Jack Whitehall as Lily’s younger brother and hesitant assistant McGregor Houghton. Lily recruits Frank to guide them down the treacherous Amazon river and through the arduous jungle as they search for the mystical Tree of Life, rumored to have healing powers that would greatly benefit modern medicine.
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The Rock’s film career has spanned over 20 years, going from a well-known professional wrestler to one of the most billable actors in Hollywood. Johnson began in ing roles in franchises and action movies before moving into lead roles in dramas and comedies, eventually helming his own blockbuster franchises, the latest of which being Jungle Cruise. In reflecting on the franchise successes of The Rock’s career, it's worth taking a look at how Jungle Cruise stands up to his prior box office earnings.
How Jungle Cruise's Box Office Compares To His Fast & Furious Movies
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Fast Five, The Rock’s first entry, brought in $109.6 million in its opening weekend. Keeping up with Fast Five’s momentum, Hobbs & Shaw's box office opening earned only $60 million.
Fast & Furious is a two-decade money-making franchise that makes it difficult to compare to Jungle Cruise, a family-friendly Disney franchise just standing up on its feet. Since the least performing film in The Rock’s contributions to Fast & Furious was Hobbs & Shaw with a $60 million opening weekend, Jungle Cruise bringing in a little more than half that number in the middle of a pandemic still bodes well. If Jungle Cruise’s momentum picks up in subsequent years with the pandemic subsided, it may not reach Fast & Furious’s speed, but could still perform competitively.
How Jungle Cruise's Box Office Compares To Jumanji
As Jumanji: The Next Level, outperformed both of its predecessors with a $59.2 million opening. Considering Jungle Cruise also performed well on streaming, bringing in another $30 million in its opening weekend, its performance so far parallels Jumanji’s track.
How Jungle Cruise's Box Office Compares To The Rock's Other Franchises
In The Rock’s debut film role, he ed The Scorpion King, a prequel to The Mummy about his eponymous character, which only earned $36 million in its opening weekend.
Again taking over in a Brendan Fraser-led franchise, The Rock ed the Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which brought in $27.3 million from its box office opening weekend. Jungle Cruise already performing higher than the 2012 established franchise film means it will likely have a longer future than the Journey films.
With Snake Eyes at $13.3 million, although the latter is being released during a pandemic.
Why Jungle Cruise's Box Office Is Good For The Rock
Although difficult to compare The Rock’s franchise box office earnings for the films he ed after the series was established compared to a brand new Jungle Cruise franchise, the contrasts seem to prove Jungle Cruise is headed on the right track. Earning $32 million at the box office in an opening weekend almost always signals success for a film, especially a family-friendly Disney movie opening simultaneously for streaming on Disney+. Although many of his other films earned around $100 million in their opening weekends, some of his more recent successful franchises brought in about the same as Jungle Cruise without a pandemic.
Bringing in over $30 million in theater box office revenue and another $30 million from streaming are great news for The Rock, meaning his fun persona is enough to bring families out of their homes and into theaters during a pandemic. Without the pandemic, Jungle Cruise likely would have brought in significantly higher revenue, so earning an opening of $32 million against a projected haul of $25 million proves The Rock’s power at the box office.
