Solo Headed To Become A Flop? Yep, It Flopped.

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'Solo' Will Lose $50M-Plus in First Defeat for Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire

Lucasfilm's stand-alone Han Solo origin pic is faltering at the global box office, where it is expected to top out in the $400 million range.

To borrow one of Han Solo's lines from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, "That's not how the Force works!"

It's an apt way to sum up the troubled performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story. In one of the biggest box-office surprises in recent times, Solo is badly underperforming and will become the first of the Star Wars movies made by Disney and Lucasfilm to lose money.

Wall Street analyst Barton Crockett says Solo will lose more than $50 million. Industry financing sources, however, say that figure could come in at $80 million or higher, although no one knows the exact terms of Disney's deals for home entertainment and television, among other ancillary revenues.

Solo, directed by Ron Howard, isn't likely to gross much more than $400 million globally against a budget of at least $250 million and a major multimillion-dollar marketing spend. The movie lost major altitude in its second weekend of play to finish Sunday with a domestic total of $148.9 million and a global cume of $264.2 million.

***Read more at:  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/solo-will-post-first-loss-disneys-star-wars-empire-1116927

Well that about wraps it up... we officially have the first ever Star Wars bomb at the BO.  Thanks Kathleen Kennedy!

Is anyone honestly even looking forward to Episode IX at this point?  Because I sure as hell ain't.  It's going to be a very interesting next 18 months for this franchise, I'm curious to see if any other of the proposed "spinoff" movies get axed and if any shakeups come at Lucasfilm / the House of Mouse.

Edit:  Also, reason #9,872 why Solo was so bad... according to this post on Wired, that Darth Maul cameo (oh sorry, SPOILER ALERT for the two of you who care!) at the end of the film as the big baddie reveal was apparently a last minute decision by co-writer and nepotism beneficiary Jonathan Kasdan because - get this - Darth Maul was his favorite character in the Prequels.  I kid you not!  Oh, and also there's a "Women of the Galaxy" book coming out featuring an all-female cast of SW characters spotlighted by women and "non-binary" artists, because we need that apparently.  No Mara Jade of course, since she and all the other interesting EU characters that fans love have been banished to the netherworld.

https://www.wired.com/story/cantina-talk-61/

Last edited by NightDragon83 - on 05 June 2018