Sony Locks In Two Major Films for Holiday 2027
Sony has claimed two of the most valuable weekends on the 2027 calendar. According to release plans reported by Variety, Ridley Scott's "Treasure Island" remake, starring Hugh Jackman, will open on Nov. 11, 2027, while the comedy sequel "24 Jump Street" lands on Dec. 10, 2027. The pairing gives the studio a prestige tentpole in the run-up to Thanksgiving and a high-profile comedy positioned squarely in the heart of the December moviegoing corridor.
The scheduling move is less a coincidence than a portfolio strategy. Sony is effectively bookending the holiday moviegoing season, a stretch that runs from the first weekend of November through New Year's Day and routinely produces the highest-grossing weekends of the year. The studio declined to be quoted on internal strategy in the Variety report, and no budget or cast figures beyond Jackman's involvement have been confirmed. What is confirmed is the calendar: two dates, six weeks apart, both aimed at audiences with time off and gift cards in hand.
Release-date announcements this far out serve several functions. They signal confidence to exhibitors, who build their premium-format and staffing plans around known anchors. They stake out territory before rival studios plant flags of their own. And they give marketing teams a fixed clock. With roughly fourteen months between the announcement and the first of the two openings, Sony has handed itself an unusually long runway.
What We Know About 24 Jump Street
The third "Jump Street" film has been one of Hollywood's most speculated-about projects for years, and the confirmed 24 Jump Street release date finally converts rumor into scheduling. Variety exclusively reported in June that the sequel was moving forward, and the Dec. 10, 2027, date formalizes that momentum.
Read next 1963 : le tube yéyé qui a enflammé la France — reconnaîtrez-vous cette voix ?For context on what that date is carrying, look at the franchise's own numbers. "21 Jump Street," released in March 2012, turned a premise that sounded like a joke — a movie version of a late-1980s TV cop drama, played for meta-comedy — into a genuine hit. Produced on a reported budget in the range of $42 million, it grossed roughly $201 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. Two years later, "22 Jump Street" did what sequels rarely manage: it grew the audience. The 2014 follow-up opened to about $57 million domestically on its way to roughly $331 million worldwide against a reported $50 million budget.
Those multiples matter more than the raw grosses. Both films returned several times their production cost, the kind of efficiency that keeps a franchise alive even through years of developmental fits and starts. The directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill became synonymous with the property's comedic voice, and audience anticipation for a third entry has been building since the mid-2010s.
That said, the gap is now well over a decade. The two leads have become significantly bigger stars, their availability has been a persistent logistical puzzle, and the film's long gestation has been the subject of trade reporting for years. The Dec. 10 slot suggests Sony believes the nostalgia is an asset rather than a liability. December has historically been a forgiving home for broad comedies, which can leg out through the holidays as casual audiences return to theaters with family and friends in town.
Hugh Jackman and Ridley Scott Reimagine Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" has been adapted for screens more than a dozen times, from the 1950 Disney version to 1990s cable retellings to animated and spacefaring variations. Sony's Nov. 11, 2027, version arrives with two names that separate it from that crowded field: Ridley Scott directing and Hugh Jackman starring.
Scott's recent commercial record gives the project real weight. "Napoleon," his 2023 historical epic with Joaquin Phoenix, grossed roughly $220 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo, a solid result for an adult-skewing historical drama in a theatrical market still finding its footing after the pandemic. "Gladiator II," released in November 2024, opened to about $55 million domestically and went on to gross more than $450 million worldwide, demonstrating that Scott — at 87 when that film opened — remains one of the few filmmakers who can open a big-budget period epic to a global audience. Few directors working today have Scott's track record of turning historical and literary material into event cinema.
Jackman brings his own gravity. After seventeen years and ten credited appearances as Wolverine — culminating in 2024's "Deadpool & Wolverine," which grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide — he is one of the most reliably bankable stars in the industry. His post-Wolverine drawing power extends beyond superheroes: "The Greatest Showman" became a slow-burn phenomenon, and his stage work in "The Music Man" kept him in the cultural conversation. Casting him in a literary adventure property lets Sony sell the film on star wattage rather than IP alone.
The pairing is strategically pointed at the Thanksgiving corridor. A mid-November date places "Treasure Island" squarely in the window that has launched franchises and awards contenders alike. No cast members beyond Jackman have been confirmed, and no plot specifics have been released. For now, the announcement rests on the pedigree of its two principals.
Why the Holiday Window Matters for Both Films
The corridor from the first week of November through the end of December is the most lucrative stretch on the theatrical calendar, and studios pay for the privilege. According to Box Office Mojo's annual records, the highest-grossing domestic weekends of the year routinely fall in this six-week span. Disney's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" opened to $181 million in November 2022. "Spider-Man: No Way Home" delivered a $260 million domestic opening weekend in December 2021, on its way to nearly $2 billion worldwide. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "The Last Jedi" both launched in mid-December and finished above $1.3 billion globally.
The economics behind those numbers are structural. Families are together, school is out, and consumers have both leisure time and discretionary spending. Box office analysts note that films released in the holiday corridor benefit from multiple high-attendance days — Thanksgiving weekend, Christmas week, New Year's — that can soften second-weekend drops and extend theatrical runs well into January. A well-received December release can still be playing in multiplexes as the Super Bowl approaches.
The two Sony dates also avoid direct collision. Six weeks separate Nov. 11 and Dec. 10, enough distance for "Treasure Island" to hold screens through Thanksgiving before "24 Jump Street" arrives to capture the pre-Christmas crowds. That sequencing echoes strategies studios have used before: pair a broad-appeal tentpole with a comedy or family film and let the two feed off the same high-traffic season rather than cannibalize each other's opening weekends.
What This Means for the 2027 Box Office Landscape
Sony's announcement is an early land-grab in a year whose calendar is still filling out. By planting flags on Nov. 11 and Dec. 10, the studio forces competitors to either schedule around those dates or accept a head-on collision — a calculus that has reshaped many a release calendar before a single trailer drops.
For "24 Jump Street," the December date is a statement of faith in a franchise that has been dormant for over a decade, but one whose two prior installments combined for roughly $530 million worldwide on combined budgets under $100 million. For "Treasure Island," the November slot signals a big-budget, four-quadrant play anchored by a director with decades of event-movie credibility and a star coming off one of the highest-grossing films in history.
Both films now have fixed clocks, defined audiences, and prime real estate. What remains to be seen — and won't be known for more than a year — is whether the 2027 holiday corridor has room for two Sony bets, or whether the season's other studios have plans of their own.
Source: Variety
