An estimated $60 million debut places the sequel among the top three live-action comedies of the last 10 years.
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in 22 Jump Street
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22 Jump Street opened this weekend with an estimated $60 million, almost twice the debut of 21 Jump Street, which opened in March 2012 with $36.3 million. It's also the best-ever opening weekend for stars Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, and Ice Cube — although not for the film's white hot directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, whose The LEGO Movie opened with $69.1 million in February and remains the top grossing film of the year domestically.
But here is where it gets interesting: A live-action comedy hasn't opened this well since 2011's The Hangover Part II ($85.9 million) — and before that, no live-action comedy opened past $60 million before 2003's Bruce Almighty ($68 million). Adjusting for inflation brightens the picture for live-action comedy only a bit more, pushing 2008's Sex and the City to a $63.2 million opening in 2014 dollars.
Otherwise, you have to go back to the start of the 2000's before live-action comedies did this well at the box office, including 2002's Austin Powers in Goldmember ($73.1 million), and 2001's Rush Hour 2 ($67.4 million) — and 2003's Scary Movie 3 ($63.5 million, adjusted), 2001's American Pie 2 ($63.5 million, adjusted), 2000's The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps ($62.8 million, adjusted), and 2000's Scary Movie ($62.5 million, adjusted).
Animated features and franchise action movies that are packed with laughs have certainly thrived over the past decade — The Avengers, one of the highest grossing films of all time, has some of the best laugh-out-loud moments of any movie in recent memory. But as those aforementioned numbers bear out, for the past 10 years, live-action comedies have struggled to come close to the same box office heights as films that aren't exclusively engineered to make audiences laugh.
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