Yeah, and diversity makes sense as the US is becoming more diverse and thus it appeals to a larger audience.

$250m was the production budget according to the article I read, the highest of any Disney Star Wars movie so far, because they had to film almost the entire movie twice, Ron Howard reshot almost every scene in the movie after he took over from Lord and Miller. The budget was planned to be only around $125-150m apparently, the lowest of any of the Disney Star Wars movies. So, with a production budget of $250m, the break even point after marketing and the cut that theaters take is $500m.

As I said though, even if Solo does flop, I doubt it will affect Disney's plans for future character based anthology movies, they'll just shoot them with a lower budget and pick better release windows for them. If future character based anthology movies have the $125-150m production budget that Solo was originally supposed to have, they will easily be profitable. 

Disney doesn't care about breaking even.They care about having a substantialROI. They also don't care about long game. They want as much money as fast as possible. If Disney wanted to slightly profit slowly they would invest the money in stocks and bondsI

$250m was the production budget according to the article I read, the highest of any Disney Star Wars movie so far, because they had to film almost the entire movie twice, Ron Howard reshot almost every scene in the movie after he took over from Lord and Miller. The budget was planned to be only around $125-150m apparently, the lowest of any of the Disney Star Wars movies. So, with a production budget of $250m, the break even point after marketing and the cut that theaters take is $500m.

As I said though, even if Solo does flop, I doubt it will affect Disney's plans for future character based anthology movies, they'll just shoot them with a lower budget and pick better release windows for them. If future character based anthology movies have the $125-150m production budget that Solo was originally supposed to have, they will easily be profitable. 

I do think they care about the long game but try to pander to consumers/popular opinions from media and are kinda lost in that aspect.

If the break even point is $500m like the article suggests, then they stand to make at least $200m profit on Solo from it's theatrical release alone, even more once you take into account the DVD/Blu-ray/Digital release, streaming/tv rights deals, and merchandise (Solo movie themed toys). I'm sure they would have been happier if the movie made a bigger profit like the other 3 Disney Star wars movies made, but that was never going to happen after the budget was nearly doubled by the reshoots and after they chose to release in May, shortly after Avengers and Deadpool. 

If every character based anthology movie can make the $700m+ at the box office that Solo will likely make, but with the smaller $125-150m budget that Solo was originally supposed to have before the reshoots, Disney stands to make a nice profit from the character focused anthology movies, especially if they start releasing more than 1 Star Wars movie a year, which they very likely will since they already have 5 Star Wars movies in development, with many more being planned and considered. Alot of the single character focused Marvel movies only gross in the $500m-900m range and Disney is happy with them.