Jumanji: The Next Level Budget

What is the budget of Jumanji The Next Level?

"Jumanji The Next Level," an adventure released in 2019, was directed by Jake Kasdan and stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart. The production budget was $125,000,000, placing it in the high-budget range for adventure productions of its era.

Key Budget Allocation Categories

While specific budget breakdowns are not publicly available, typical cost drivers for an adventure production like this include:

• Stunts, Action Sequences & Visual Effects: Action films allocate a substantial portion of their budget to choreographing and executing practical stunts, pyrotechnics, and CGI-heavy sequences.
• Above-the-Line Talent (Cast & Director): A-list talent commands significant upfront fees plus backend participation.
• Production Design, Sets & Locations: Action films frequently require multiple international shooting locations, large-scale set construction, vehicle acquisitions and modifications, and specialized equipment , all of which drive production costs well above those of dialogue-driven genres.

What were the major cost factors in Jumanji The Next Level?

Several factors contributed to the overall production costs of "Jumanji The Next Level."

• Stunts: Stunts, Action Sequences & Visual Effects is one of the primary cost drivers in adventure productions of this scale.
• Above-the-Line Talent (Cast: Above-the-Line Talent (Cast & Director) is one of the primary cost drivers in adventure productions of this scale.
• Production Design: Production Design, Sets & Locations is one of the primary cost drivers in adventure productions of this scale.

How Does Jumanji The Next Level's Budget Compare to Similar Films?

At $125,000,000, Jumanji The Next Level sits in the high-budget range. Here is how it compares to productions with a similar budget:

• Artemis Fowl (2020): Budget $125,000,000
• Assassin's Creed (2016): Budget $125,000,000, Worldwide Gross $240,700,000
• Batman & Robin (1997): Budget $125,000,000, Worldwide Gross $238,207,122
• Chaos Walking (2021): Budget $125,000,000, Worldwide Gross $26,508,132
• Clash of the Titans (2010): Budget $125,000,000, Worldwide Gross $493,214,993

The median budget for wide-release adventure films in the 2010s ranges from $30 to 80M for mid-budget to $150M+ for tentpoles.

Jumanji The Next Level Box Office Performance

"Jumanji The Next Level" earned $320,314,960 domestically and $801,693,929 worldwide at the box office. Against a production budget of $125,000,000, the film performed strongly at the box office.

A film typically needs to earn approximately twice its production budget to cover marketing and distribution costs. For "Jumanji The Next Level," that break-even threshold was roughly $250,000,000. With worldwide earnings of $801,693,929, the film cleared that threshold comfortably.

• Production Budget: $125,000,000
• Worldwide Gross: $801,693,929
• Net Return: $676,693,929
• ROI: approximately 541.4%

At 541.4%, "Jumanji The Next Level" earned roughly $6.41 for every $1 invested in production.

Awards and Recognition

2 wins & 10 nominations total

Jumanji: The Next Level Production History

Jumanji: The Next Level was greenlit at Sony Pictures after Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle grossed $962 million worldwide in 2017 and 2018. Director Jake Kasdan, screenwriters Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, and producer Matt Tolmach returned. Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan reprised their avatar roles, with the picture introducing Danny DeVito as grandfather Eddie and Danny Glover as his estranged friend Milo, both swapped into the game as Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart's avatars for much of the running time.

Principal photography began in January 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, and continued through April 2019 with location work in Alberta, Hawaii, and New Mexico. The Alberta sequences provided the snowy mountain pass set pieces, while Hawaii and New Mexico stood in for the desert and oasis biomes. The all-in production cost reached approximately $125 million, modestly above the prior film.

Sony released the picture on December 13, 2019, with a holiday family campaign focused on Danny DeVito and Danny Glover's avatar swaps and the new desert and snow biomes. The opening weekend posted $59 million domestically, with sustained holiday legs, including a third weekend bump driven by Christmas school break attendance.

Critical Reception

Jumanji: The Next Level holds a 71 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic score of 58. CinemaScore audiences awarded the film an A-, indicating strong audience satisfaction. Glenn Kenny at The New York Times wrote that the picture "finds new comedic life in the avatar swap structure, particularly in Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart playing Danny DeVito and Danny Glover." Brian Tallerico at RogerEbert.com awarded three stars and praised the chemistry between Johnson and Hart in their new performance registers. Owen Gleiberman at Variety described the film as "engineered with more skill than the wider sequel slate it sits within." Some critics noted that the swap concept began to thin out by the third act when characters returned to their original avatars. Industry observers credited the strong CinemaScore and sustained holiday legs with the picture's ability to gross more than 6.4 times its production budget worldwide, an unusually strong multiple for a $125 million franchise release.