A Very Jonas Christmas Movie has become an instant success on streaming. The new holiday comedy, which follows the pop band’s members Nick, Kevin, and Joe (playing themselves) having wacky hijinks while trying to make their way from London to New York for Christmas, is the first narrative feature starring all three brothers since the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.
According to Disney+‘s proprietary chart of the most-watched titles on the platform (which mixes both movies and television shows) in the United States, A Very Jonas Christmas movie has debuted at No. 3 shortly after premiering on the platform on November 14.
The only movies ahead of it on the chart are the 2025 comedy Freakier Friday and the superhero movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps. It is one of just two holiday-themed titles that charted in the Top 10 on November 16, which marks almost exactly two weeks until Thanksgiving in the United States. The other is 2006’s The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause at No. 9.
It remains to be seen how long the new holiday movie remains on the chart. However, the runway is clear for it to continue to find an audience hungry for holiday content. Disney+ does not currently have any other holiday-themed releases scheduled until after Thanksgiving, with Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol debuting on November 28 followed by new seasons of Holiday Baking Championship on November 29.
If A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (which features seven new Jonas Brothers songs) continues to chart, potentially even hitting No. 1, it could become a major streaming hit before long. Should that be the case, it could encourage the Jonas Brothers to continue pursuing roles together in narrative features.
The Jonas Brothers starred in multiple narrative projects prior to 2010, playing versions of themselves in the 2009 sitcom Jonas and playing fictional characters in the features Camp Rock and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
However, after breaking up in 2013 and reuniting in 2019, the band’s media output was restricted to documentaries such as 2020’s Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film and specials including 2021’s Jonas Brothers Family Roast and Olympic Dreams Featuring Jonas Brothers, though they did guest star as themselves in a 2020 episode of Netflix’s Dash & Lily, which Nick Jonas executive produced.
The success of A Very Jonas Christmas Movie could very well change this pattern, allowing them to return to the screen together as actors at a similar rate to what they did when they were at the height of their original Disney Channel fame.
