Movie Solo: A Star Wars Story (1 Viewer)

[Sun Wukong]

The OW box office numbers for Solo are looking pretty dire. Like Justice League territory, which is unfathomably bad for a Star Wars movie. Internal projections from Disney had been an opening in the 130-150 million range for the extended weekend, but it's looking like it's going to do less than 90 million 3-day and barely crack 100 with Memorial Day added in.

Lots of questions will be asked after this. Did they over-saturate the market with too many movies too quickly? Is this just a minor movie that people skipped on? Is it backlash from The Last Jedi actually manifesting? This may be something that fundamentally changes their approach to Star Wars going forward. These numbers are bad. And the international numbers are even worse at $65 million for the weekend. That's...just not even defensible. That's a terrible number.

When you account for the fact that they basically had to reshoot the whole movie after Lord and Miller got canned...there's very real chance this thing doesn't turn a profit on theatrical. That's crazy to say about a Star Wars movie, but it's very likely given the circumstances.

 

[Saint_Ward]

The OW box office numbers for Solo are looking pretty dire. Like Justice League territory, which is unfathomably bad for a Star Wars movie. Internal projections from Disney had been an opening in the 130-150 million range for the extended weekend, but it's looking like it's going to do less than 90 million 3-day and barely crack 100 with Memorial Day added in.

Lots of questions will be asked after this. Did they over-saturate the market with too many movies too quickly? Is this just a minor movie that people skipped on? Is it backlash from The Last Jedi actually manifesting? This may be something that fundamentally changes their approach to Star Wars going forward. These numbers are bad. And the international numbers are even worse at $65 million for the weekend. That's...just not even defensible. That's a terrible number.

When you account for the fact that they basically had to reshoot the whole movie after Lord and Miller got canned...there's very real chance this thing doesn't turn a profit on theatrical. That's crazy to say about a Star Wars movie, but it's very likely given the circumstances.

And this one actually was pretty good.

I think word of mouth will give this a little big of legs next week. But it's been a crazy movie month.. Infinity War, Deadpool 2, not even counting a few other decent movies that got lost in all that.

I wasn't planning on seeing Solo this weekend, but it just sort of happened. The kid was bored, and tickets were available for reserved seating.

But the box office sure is getting ahead of its self. They're estimating $23M for today.. today hasn't even happened yet... But yes, Friday was about one third of what The Last Jedi was. And about half of Rogue One.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

The OW box office numbers for Solo are looking pretty dire. Like Justice League territory, which is unfathomably bad for a Star Wars movie. Internal projections from Disney had been an opening in the 130-150 million range for the extended weekend, but it's looking like it's going to do less than 90 million 3-day and barely crack 100 with Memorial Day added in.

Lots of questions will be asked after this. Did they over-saturate the market with too many movies too quickly? Is this just a minor movie that people skipped on? Is it backlash from The Last Jedi actually manifesting? This may be something that fundamentally changes their approach to Star Wars going forward. These numbers are bad. And the international numbers are even worse at $65 million for the weekend. That's...just not even defensible. That's a terrible number.

When you account for the fact that they basically had to reshoot the whole movie after Lord and Miller got canned...there's very real chance this thing doesn't turn a profit on theatrical. That's crazy to say about a Star Wars movie, but it's very likely given the circumstances.

i get the feeling they decided to bury the movie after the very public problems with it
publicity-wise i just did not see that big of a push for it - they seemed to take a "live to see another day"
that being said, with the things being discussed in the spoiler tags, i do see this being a full trilogy eventually

 

[Saint_Ward]

i get the feeling they decided to bury the movie after the very public problems with it
publicity-wise i just did not see that big of a push for it - they seemed to take a "live to see another day"
that being said, with the things being discussed in the spoiler tags, i do see this being a full trilogy eventually

I wonder if the trilogy being created by Rian Johnson will be in this timeline or before.

Trilogy spoiler?

Not sure they'd bring him to do a Han story.. and not sure a trilogy about the crimson dawn and Maul...

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I wonder if the trilogy being created by Rian Johnson will be in this timeline or before.

Trilogy spoiler?

Not sure they'd bring him to do a Han story.. and not sure a trilogy about the crimson dawn and Maul...

Fingers crossed for KOTOR

 

[Booker]

Did they over-saturate the market with too many movies too quickly? Is this just a minor movie that people skipped on? Is it backlash from The Last Jedi actually manifesting?

Probably a little of all three, but it will be interesting to see how they spin it after the numbers are official.

Fingers crossed for KOTOR

I would love to see that depicted, but not with Rian Johnson involved.

 

[Saint by the Bay]

I would love to see that depicted, but not with Rian Johnson involved.

I'm not interested in seeing anything from Rian Johnson in the SW Universe or any other established franchise. He clearly has no respect for the lore or writing something inside the confines of an established universe.

He should stick to doing his own thing where he can do his own thing. Writing in established properties requires a degree of conformity he's obviously not comfortable with.

 

[St. Geezy]

The most important development of this movie....

The Imperial March theme song is actually in-universe?!

 

[billinms]

The most important development of this movie....

The Imperial March theme song is actually in-universe?!

Does that make John Williams an Imperial composer?

 

[St. Geezy]

I thought Lando repeatedly calling him Han with the short 'a' sound to annoy him was a pretty nice touch.

 

[Wisco Steve]

I came in with limited expectations and was thoroughly entertained and impressed with this film. With it leaving off right as Han/Chewy appear headed to Tatoine it really leaves it at a perfect spot for a follow up movie that could incorporate the Hutts, maybe Boba and even Obi-Wan.

 

[SaintRob]

I enjoyed the movie. I also think the actor did a good job of just "being" Han Solo, especially considering it is supposed to be a very young Han Solo that hasn't become his well-known cynical self yet. Several good easter eggs throughout the movie as well.

I do have a timeline question that would be a spoiler, though. Should we start another thread or does the spoiler tag really work across all platforms? Don't want to give anything away.

Kind of spoilerish without actually spoiling it....

semispoiler

For your spoiler, if it's the one I think it is, the timeline fits because of additional info in the animated series that explains why you saw what you saw when you don't think you should have seen it.

 

[Jeff Miller]

Saw the movie and completely enjoyed it. The anti - star wars internet hate machine has to be the biggest bunch of spoiled cry babies i have ever seen. All they seem to want are the "good old days" where they can buy their 8th copy of the original trilogy, with a bonus interview by GL.

The movie is good and entertaining. Worth seeing.

 

[Jeff Miller]

I think Disney has been pretty clear about their intentions to milk this space-walrus-titty dry, so yeah, we might actually get all of those things. And I agree, we don't really need to know more about Boba Fett and what makes him tick, but I think it would be cool just to see him in action, and if they can come up with a good story, a Star Wars bounty hunter movie by the director of Logan has a lot of potential.

no one buys a franchise for 4 billion to make art house flicks once every 10 years.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Saw the movie and completely enjoyed it. The anti - star wars internet hate machine has to be the biggest bunch of spoiled cry babies i have ever seen. All they seem to want are the "good old days" where they can buy their 8th copy of the original trilogy, with a bonus interview by GL.

The movie is good and entertaining. Worth seeing.

While I think this movie won't pull typical Star Wars numbers, I am sure their numbers will improve due to word of mouth of actual movie goers.