Posted on 06/02/2018 5:39:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1
With no serious competition opening at the box office, Solo has officially collapsed with a catastrophic -68 percent drop in its second weekend. After grossing a measly (we are talking about a Star Wars movie here) $82 million in its debut weekend, Solo bottomed out in week two with just $28 million. How bad is that?
In its second weekend, The Force Awakens was grossing $50 million A DAY.
The Last Jedi grossed $70 million.
Rogue One grossed $55 million.
In worse news, Solo is by far the most expensive Star Wars movie produced yet, with a reported price tag of $250 million. Add another $150 million for publicity, and we are talking about a $900 million worldwide breakeven point.
After The Force Awakens, Rogue One, and The Last Jedi grossed a domestic $936 million, $532 million, and $620 million, respectively, Solo will probably skid to a stop before it reaches $230 million.
The news is just as bad at the international box office, where Solo has only added $82 million, despite opening everywhere.
Solo is going to lose a fortune.
And our hopelessly corrupt entertainment media refuse to say why.
How desperate are the entertainment media to cover up the fact that Kathleen Kennedy’s obnoxious, story-killing, left-wing politics are killing Star Wars? Over at the far-left Washington Post, Steven Zeitchik, who is actually paid money to analyze the box office, blamed it on — try not to laugh — a late spring release date, the fact Solo is a spin-off, yes, Star Wars fatigue.
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The very last thing the world needed is another soft-headed star wars movie.
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The muddiness fits Solo's character well as a smuggler who does shoot first.
Now I want to watch the movie.
At least they nailed Chewbacca's recasting. :-)
Jar Jar Abrams.
That’s nice to hear.
I truly did not like The Last Jedi. Not for any other reason than this third trilogy feels so forced. I have no love for any of the new characters. I don’t love them, I don’t hate them, I feel nothing for them. Now Han is dead, Carrie Fisher has passed, Luke is a force ghost at best and Chewie just growls and the Falcon just flies around.
So no new charactersj to like and the best reason to watch number 9 is a space ship.
I will be the first to say the best NEW Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi was Rogue One. The characters worked, the story worked, the nostalgia factor was just enough without being overpowering. But, everyone died and they can’t use any of them again.....
Thanks for that review. I might just take the grand kids for a treat.
“Really?”
Thank you.
Tickets sold in US/Canada after 8 days:
Force Awakens: 50.6 million
Last Jedi: 35 million
Rogue One: 27.8 million
Solo: 13.9 million
Yeah. Same here...
Hoping in the next movie they go into the Wookie Life Debt and how Han earns his Correlian bloodstripes.
While I won't go quite as far as you do, overall I do think "SOLO" was a good movie, and it doesn't deserve the criticism its been getting.
And I think Disney made a good faith effort to stick to the Star Wars cannon by bringing in the same guy who wrote the screenplay for Episode V for this movie.
IMHO there are two reasons for the poor box office performance of "Solo": Harrison Ford's IS Solo, and this film only appeals to really hardcore Star Wars fans.
Saw the movie two nights ago as relatives urged us to go with them. Since I went with low expectations I was pleasantly surprised. The movie was enjoyable for the moment but predictable and will not be a memorable movie. I think I left the theater with eye strain from trying to see in the dark as almost all scenes were in dark places.
Here’s one example.
Billy D. Williams played Lando Calrissian in the original run of Star Wars movies.
Billy D. Williams may be a top-10 hetero dude, whether he’s playing Lando Calrissian, selling Colt 45 Malt Liquor, whatever. He exudes hetero maleness.
His character in Solo, played by a younger actor since BDW is getting up there, is “pansexual”, whatevertheheck that is.
Enough said.
As for myself, I walked out of Last Jedi after 30 minutes.
I guess when you scream how you are trying to change society and don’t what anybody thinks, you’re going to destroy your box office performance.
Who knew?
Kennedy in black.
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