One Hit Franchise After The Other - 'Jumanji', 'Spiderman' & 'Venom'

Over the past decade, he’s produced megahit Spider-Man movies, the smash success of Venom, and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the latter of which grossed nearly a billion dollars on its own worldwide.

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We are in times where it has actually become rather difficult to have a sustainable franchise going as there are always instances of how a second or third film doesn't necessarily speak success right away.

In such times, to have one mega success after the other is rare but producer Matt Tolmach has managed to do that rather successfully. Over the past decade, he’s produced megahit Spider-Man movies, the smash success of Venom, and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the latter of which grossed nearly a billion dollars on its own worldwide. His latest, Jumanji: The Next Level, arrived today and is already scheduled to rake in bigmoney.

However, when it comes to Tolmach himself, his good reputation stems in part from his nose for hits.

“I like commercial movies that are about characters who are on some kind of journey to figure out who they are. ‘Who am I?’ Maybe that’s a question I’m asking the universe, but every time I’m developing a movie, there’s a note on the page that asks, ‘Who am I?’”

When asked how he’s applied lessons from his time as an executive to his work as a producer, Tolmach says the major lessons learned come from before he embarked on a Hollywood career.

“I feel blessed to have had a really great education,” he says. “I went to a tiny school where I was taught that reading and having a point of view and not being afraid to speak it was the most important thing in the world. It was why I got promoted out of the mail room, and it’s been the thing that’s been most meaningful to me in every incarnation of my professional life.”

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