Jack Blackhas accomplished a rare and impressive box office achievement with his three biggest franchise. After his breakout role in 2000’sHigh Fidelity, Jack Black went on to star in a number of movies, largely in the comedy genre. Some of his most notable movies from the 2000s includeShallow Hal,Nacho Libre,School of Rock, andThe Holiday.
Over the course of his career, Jack Black has appeared ina number of movies that have either spawned franchises or been continuations of a pre-existing franchise. One of his most notable franchise roles is voicing the title character Po in DreamWorks’Kung Fu Pandamovies.
Other franchise installments starring Black includeI Still Know What You Did Last Summer,Ice Age, 2005’sKing Kong,Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,The NeverEnding Story III,The Muppets,Goosebumps, andBorderlands. However, his three biggest franchises share a box office record that none of his others have been able to match.
Jumanji, Minecraft, & Super Mario Bros. Are Jack Black’s Biggest Franchises
He Plays Major Characters In All Three
The star’s three biggest film franchises areMinecraft,Super Mario Bros., andJumanji, two of which feature him as iconic pre-existing characters.The most recent of the three isMinecraft, which debuted withA Minecraft Moviein 2025. TheJack Black video game moviefeatures the actor as the iconic character Steve, who originated in the game.
Super Mario Bros.is another video game franchise with recent provenance, asThe Super Mario Bros. Movie, in which Black voices the iconic villain Bowser, debuted in 2023. While there have been other live-action and animated projects adapted from theMariogames,the 2023 animated movie is a standalone and the first to be produced by Illumination.
Illumination is an animation studio known for theDespicable MeandMinionsmovies.
Black’s other biggest film franchise is theJumanjimovies. He joinedJumanjiin its second installment, 2017’sWelcome to the Jungle, a standalone sequel about teenagers being trapped as characters in a jungle survival video game. Black portrayed one of these characters, scientist Professor Sheldon “Shelly” Oberon, which wasa role he reprised in the 2019 sequelThe Next Level.
Every Entry In These Jack Black Franchises Have Made Over $800 Million
He Has Several Huge Hits Under His Belt
WhileThe Super Mario Bros. Movieis the highest-grossing of Jack Black’s franchise installments (and of his career in general) with a whopping $1.361 billion gross,all four installments of this trio of his biggest franchises have grossed more than $800 million apiece. Below, see a breakdown of the movies' box office performance:
$962.5 million
$801.7 million
$1.361 billion
A Minecraft Movie(2025)
$954 million
On top of this record, Black’s three biggest franchises eachreached $900 million with the first installment in which he appears. These whopping grosses see the four movies in question making up nearly 40% of the total box office of Jack’s entire filmography, which has hit a cumulative $10.689 billion.
Jack Black’s Box Office Success Is Good News For These Franchises' Futures
The Most Recent Updates Are Promising For Their Longevity
The fact that Jack Black is at the center of so many modern hits is good news for the franchises involved, asall three of them have new installments in various stages of developmentthanks to their initial installments' theatrical success.
This includes asequel toThe Super Mario Bros. Movie, which was announced to be in development in November 2023, after the end of the writers strike. It was later announced thata follow-upSuper Mario Bros.movie has been slated for release on July 03, 2025.
That same year will see the release of a newJumanjimovie, which is set to be the final installment in theWelcome to the Jungletrilogy and is currently scheduled to premiere on August 12, 2025.
TheWelcome to the Junglemovies also star Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart, and Nick Jonas alongside Jack Black.
Additionally, while thepossibleA Minecraft Movie 2has not been officially greenlit, Warner Bros. executives Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy recently toldDeadlinethat an announcement may be imminent. Ultimately, a follow-up seems inevitable, considering the fact that theJack Blackmovie grossed nearly $1 billion against its reported budget of $150 million.
