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‘Solo’ Currently Flying Low For Disney ‘Star Wars’ Opening With $105M-$115M 4-Day
Deadline Hollywood ^ | May 26, 2018 | Anthony D'Alessandro

Posted on 05/25/2018 3:05:07 PM PDT by C19fan

UPDATED, 10:47AM: Industry estimates this morning are pegging around $33M today for Disney’s Solo: A Star Wars Story with a $80M-$90M three-day and $105M-$115M play over four days. That’s a very early read on opening figures, which do not come from Disney. We could see a different picture by tonight. We hear that exit polls showed a four-out-five stars and that there should be a promising turnout by boys tomorrow.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: disney; scifi; soloastarwarsstory; star; starwars; wars
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Hate to say this but HA HA!!! I a Generation Xer. Star Wars is the cultural marker for my generation. I have seen everyone movie, not counting the cartoon, at the theatre. But I have zero interest in this one from the beginning. I could not help but ask WHY??? Then Disney announced it will be doing a Boba Fett movie for freakin' secondary character. What is next Young Jar Jar Binks??? I want originality like "Rogue One". Notice the best of the Disney releases was the one without any original characters except for cameos by Darth Vader and a CGI Grand Moff Tarkin. I heard "Solo" has a Social Justice Warrior Feminazi robot. What everyone said when Disney bought the franchise has come true. Disney and Kathleen Kennedy appears to be running the franchise into the ground to squeeze every last cent.
1 posted on 05/25/2018 3:05:08 PM PDT by C19fan
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This ain’t Disney in so many ways.

One, Star Wars isn’t Disney. Yeah, they bought it, they now own it. But Disney didn’t create it.

Two, Even if Disney had created it, Disney didn’t make sequel after sequel squeezing whatever could be gotten out of something. Walt Disney always went on to new things and didn’t do sequels, with few exceptions, e.g. Three Little Pigs, which he recognized as inferior and exploitive.


2 posted on 05/25/2018 3:13:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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They should have waited about three to four years before releasing this. It’s like iphone coming out too close together and too similar in appearance or function.


3 posted on 05/25/2018 3:24:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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A 45% drop is unbelievably massive for a franchise like Star Wars. The damage Disney has done to it, on top of the damage Lucas did to it with the prequel trilogy, has also killed the nostalgia for this GenXer as well.

Had Star Wars not become infected by Communists I would have been the first person in line at the theater. Now? I won’t even watch it for free, because I know it will be political propaganda with poor writing and acting, and way way way too much dependence on CGI graphics to carry the show.


4 posted on 05/25/2018 3:31:53 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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Rogue One was the best Star Wars movie since “The Empire Strikes Back”. I went in expecting the worst from this first Disney project and was blown away.

I’m fine with Disney cranking out all the silly Star Wars sequels they want to, since every now and then someone just might manage to make a brilliant movie in spite of the corporate group-think.


5 posted on 05/25/2018 3:40:51 PM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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Han Solo was my favorite character. They should have made a movie about his life way before when Ford was younger. Star Wars now is complete garbage and the idiots of Disney will run it into the ground as a flaming propaganda machine, pandering to the freak class and ruining the integrity of its original cinematographic intent.


6 posted on 05/25/2018 3:46:48 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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One of the young men at our church who is a BIG Star Wars fan put out a text that stated his elderly grandmother passed away earlier this week but after seeing the new Solo movie last night, his grandma’s passing is only the second worst experience of the week. Just passing it on.....


7 posted on 05/25/2018 4:24:12 PM PDT by Shark24
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Not a bad opening considering its up against a couple of monster movies out there right now (IW and DP2).


8 posted on 05/25/2018 4:24:47 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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It is called “going to the well too many times.”


9 posted on 05/25/2018 4:32:13 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Not a bad film—really. Saw it last night. Has some good lines and special effects.


10 posted on 05/25/2018 4:35:04 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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Not a bad film—really. Saw it last night. Has some good lines and special effects.


11 posted on 05/25/2018 4:35:24 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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Saw it for free.

I was overcharged.


12 posted on 05/25/2018 5:16:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I hate to break it to you, but Star Wars had been infected by the Communists since 1973 when Lucas wrote the first film, and by extension the entire franchise to basically be Viet Cong propaganda and a subtle attempt at demonizing the Vietnam War effort by America.

And honestly, even without my already being on boycott on Disney due to rank stupidity Disney’s done with their films and media since their live action remake of Beauty and the Beast, I’m probably not going to see the film, since I suspect it’s just going to be badly done.


13 posted on 05/25/2018 5:16:56 PM PDT by otness_e
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To: C19fan

“I’m shocked!” Said by no one.


14 posted on 05/25/2018 5:22:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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As I heard one DJ say today, you already know they come through everything OK, so where’s any suspense?


15 posted on 05/25/2018 5:27:30 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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As the Vietnam War was demonic to begin with, I don’t terribly mind a protest against it.

What we have here today in the new SW movies is a completely different animal, propaganda wise. Unlike the original there’s nothing even slightly subtle about it.


16 posted on 05/25/2018 6:10:53 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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Just saw it and really, really, really loved it! One of the best in the series, I think. Terrific!


17 posted on 05/25/2018 7:00:42 PM PDT by freepertoo
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I saw it this afternoon. I enjoyed it. I thought the actor that played Han did a good job of evoking Harrison Ford’s Solo in some moments. I was entertained and I think most Star Wars fans will like it. I have to say I like Rogue One and TFA and TLJ a little more, but all the new ones are so much better than the old one with the ewoks that I am happy enough.


18 posted on 05/25/2018 7:06:37 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Star Wars. Harry Potter. Hunger Games. All hang leftist oppression onto a fascist “rightist” hook. Classic psychological projection.


19 posted on 05/25/2018 7:26:16 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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I’m Darth Nihlus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUb3aWsK1wc


20 posted on 05/25/2018 7:32:48 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
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