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IS Jack Black The world’s biggest star? Ask virtually anyone and they’ll likely – and very quickly – Say no”. But the statistics don’t lie: In a year in which major A-listers have struggled to open movies, they include established reliables like Dwayne Johnson and Julia Roberts as well as rising stars. glen powell And Sydney SweeneySpectators are lining up in large numbers to see both of Black’s 2025 star vehicles. And it’s even more impressive when both of those films are comedies, a genre that has been largely shut out of theaters, and critically panned comedies at that.
This Christmas week, Black Can be seen in the 1997 reboot of the iconic monster movie AnacondaIn which Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube were terrorized by a giant snake. New Anaconda It’s deliberately funnier than the very flashy original, in which Black played the lead role. Anaconda Superfan who decides to remake the film with his best friend, played by Paul Rudd. Heading into the Amazonian jungle, the pair unfortunately encounter an actual, real-life 25-foot snake.
New Anaconda Critics panned it, but it is estimated to gross at least $20 million in its opening weekend in the US, which would immediately put it into profit given its low budget of only $45 million. And it could follow a similar trajectory to April the minecraft movieIn which Black played a doorknob salesman and ventured into the world of video games, it grossed a whopping $958m at the global box office.
has long been removed from his acclaimed, star-making performances in films like high fidelity And rock schoolBlack has not led a single live-action film since 2017 that was a hit with critics. That’s when their other nineties reboot happened Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle It received enough positive reviews to receive a 77 percent average score on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
Despite such creative stagnation, his work appears to reliably print money. welcome to the jungle and its 2019 sequel next level grossing nearly $2 billion collectively at the box office (another sequel is due out next Christmas). last years if fu panda 4The latest installment of the franchise trading primarily on his comic persona (in panda form) grossed half a billion. Even his disappointing straight-to-streaming 2024 comedy Dear Santa has seen success, with the film being one of the most watched films on Paramount+ at the time of writing. (An outlier? Last year’s disastrous video game movie Limit – but maybe money could have been made from it if it had put Black on center stage instead of just asking him to voice a robot?)
It doesn’t matter that critics have been largely unkind to Black’s recent output. I am writing a review about it the minecraft movie, IndependentFilm critic Clarisse Loughrey particularly lamented Black’s performanceWriting: “He delivers lines in the desperate style of a clown at a poorly attended children’s birthday party.” Yet, exit polls in the US suggested the same 28 percent viewers liked it the minecraft movie Simply because of Black, suggesting that they would follow him anywhere.
Somewhat unusually, Black admitted this week to focusing on the success of his films. “It’s cheesy and I shouldn’t reveal it, but I like to go on Box Office Mojo and see how well a movie did over the weekend,” he said. many times“How are the stats? It’s a fun game, It’s a competition,”
he will be happy Anaconda At least, one that is set to attract large numbers of people over the Christmas holidays and New Year – despite threats from people like Timothée Chalamet. Marty Supreme and sydney sweeney thriller home maidOn that note, a lot has been said about Sweeney recent box office crisisBut there may be a simple solution: throw him into something with Jack Black, and possibly let the money keep coming.
‘Anaconda’ is in theaters