"Jumanji 3" Delayed

Sony’s Columbia Pictures has shifted the release date for the “Jumanji” threequel to Christmas Day, two weeks after its planned December 11 release.

The move shifts “Jumanji 3” to hit theaters after the launches of “Dune: Part Three” and “Avengers: Doomsday” on December 18 — a box office standoff called “Dunesday.”

The “Jumanji” reboot franchise — which follows a group of teenagers who find themselves trapped inside a video game — stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan.

Danny DeVito, Nick Jonas, Marin Hinkle, Bebe Neuwirth, Lamorne Morris, and Rhys Darby also return for the next installment, with Dan Hildebrand and Jack Jewkes joining as new cast members.

Jake Kasdan helmed the first two installments of the big-budget series and returns to direct the third film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg.

Matt Tolmach, Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and Kasdan produced the movie.

For now, the only other titles slated to open on Christmas Day are Robert Eggers’ creature feature "Werwulf" from Focus Features, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Paramount’s Untitled John Tuggle Project about “Mr. Irrelevant” of the 1983 NFL Draft.

Also set for the Christmas corridor is Paramount’s "The Angry Birds Movie 3" on December 23.

The Christmas corridor has historically been the release window for family-friendly “Jumanji” movies, going back to the 1995 action-adventure comedy starring Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst, which opened on December 15 that year.

The original followed a group of kids who unleash a safari game into the reality of their hometown.

Then, Kasdan and Johnson had a way in to reboot the franchise — one that centered on a bunch of kids getting stuck in a video game with alternative-version avatars from who they are in real life.

The first installment of the new “Jumanji” franchise, 2017’s “Welcome to the Jungle,” launched on December 20 and became a box office smash.

It earned over $960 million worldwide to become the fifth-highest-grossing film of the year.

The sequel, 2019’s “Jumanji: The Next Level,” also was a massive haul, grossing over $800 million worldwide.

The trilogy has banked more than $2.02 billion around the globe.