Will Soft 'Solo' Box Office Cause Disney to Rethink 'Star Wars' Strategy?

Hollywood Reporter ^ | May 28, 2018 | Pamela McClintock

[C19fan]

Lucasfilm and Disney are facing a moment of reckoning.

Over Memorial Day weekend, they were jolted when Solo: A Star Wars Story battled hard to hit $100 million domestically and bombed overseas with $65 million. The film badly trailed the launch of fellow stand-alone pic Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which debuted to $155 million domestically in 2016 on its way to topping $1.056 billion globally. At its current rate, Solo may not gross much more than $400 million all in.

[Secret Agent Man]

He hated vii and viii.

[avenir]

Stupid movie from the first one to the last. I stood in a line that stretched around a big theater (The Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth) when Star Wars came out. That was what I remember most. Back then movies were a big deal that drew big crowds.

Many moons later I've seen a lot of cinema and now look at Lucas as a total lightweight. He did good and upped the tech game with his Lucasfilm, I'll give him that.

Want to see an adult movie that will show how stupid and empty SW is? Watch THE INVITATION. It's on Netflix now. Made for a million bucks. Evokes the delusional times of est, the Mansons, the Hills, awful reunions, figuring out when the point of no return has arrived, etc. but in a modern setting. Slow burner you don't forget (unlike cotton candy movies we're choking on these days).

[avenir]

As a further note on THE INVITATION, it’s box office so far is $354,835 USD. The SOLO creators are kvetching about $100+ MILLION!

A reflection of the world. Flash and trash win the world. Depth and quality languish in obscurity.

(Not saying this movie is the greatest example, but it’s a recent one.)

[mylife]

I have come to despise all things CGI

AVATAR was a puke fest of CGI masturbation
No one makes cinema anymore.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sorcerer+movie+youtube&&view=detail&mid=361DCA42712EC95507B9361DCA42712EC95507B9&&FORM=VRDGAR

[avenir]

Okay, that was cool. Need to see that. Roy Scheider was in so many great movies.

[mylife]

It aint a great film but I bet its better than SOLO

Sorcerer was based on a French film from the 50s called “the wages of fear”

[mylife]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/

[Sam Gamgee]

Funny thing is they were using a negative sales pitch for Force Awakens. They claimed how much better it was than the awful prequels. Frankly the darker prequel where Annakin becomes Darth Vader I liked way more than Force Awakens. FA was just dusting off the old story line and trying to pretend it was a new one. (Sort of like the newer Star trek movies)

[Sam Gamgee]

Call me sick, but this is the one thing that redeemed Netflix’ Punisher for me. No apology whatsoever for the violence. It is over the top and I love it.

[editor-surveyor]

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Movies are dead.

There is nothing left to make a movie about, and fake causes are guaranteed flops.

Movies are either boring, or insult your intelligence with their far fetched plots.

[Widget Jr]

"Fire Kathleen Kennedy"

Fire Rian Johnson. Cancel his trilogy. Do not let him write, direct, or produce anything Star Wars ever again. Whatever he does for Star Wars is dead to the fans because of how Disney has treated them.

Fans aren't going to see Solo because they are fed up with being called sexist and racist for pointing out the problems The Last Jedi has. I honestly think there is a unorganized boycott of Solo because of this. So fans are trying to send Disney a message:

"Don't make bad Star Wars films, and don't blame us when you make a bad movie if you want our money."

[TruthFactor]

Answer to all your questions is no. I saw the movie today. Liked it.

[YogicCowboy]

You speak for me. E VI (SW 3) was a letdown. The man who played Darth hardly looked or sounded awe inspiring. The Ewoks were the harbinger of the dismal future. The dialogue had alrewdy descended to self parody.

The first two movies are the only ones I truly enjoyed. E V (TESB) was the early peak for the franchise.

[Rastus]

Mainly, he has to make sure not to bend over in front of Lando, who they made “pansexual” here.

[CodeToad]

They are liberals, so in their stupidity they’ll double down and make it even worse and blame white people for not watching it.

[discostu]

Time of year doesn’t matter that much for the overall release, but individual days it does. Other not that unrelated movies does. Money and time are finite. 3 hardcore nerd movies in a row can strain some people’s finances and schedule. It’s not just about the hardcore fans, to make the $200 to $300 million you want for a serious tentpole requires casual fans by the droves.

[Glad2bnuts]

I really enjoyed the Marvel movies, and some of the DC. With that said, Agents of Shield without commercials is much better. It is America vs Hydra, Aliens, evil people are fought by people protecting well the USA and the world. Just like the comic books of my youth. Even the powerful “superhumans” are not very good without teamwork and alliances with humans.

[avenir]

Wow, I was thinking of that when I watched your link. WAGES OF FEAR is one of the greats. What a shame so many miss it because "I hate subtitles!" or "It's FRENCH!" Grow up, people. You're missing some truly great movies. (I feel like saying)

Criterion has a Blu-Ray of Wages I'd love to see...

[otness_e]

Yeah. Just ask JJ Abrams and how he handled the failure of The Last Jedi. That guy basically had the audacity to claim that the audience “feared women heroes”, apparently forgetting that most of the audience looked up to Princess Leia in the Original Trilogy, who last I checked was a woman hero. Something similar occurred with Chuck Wendig with his awful Aftermath novel, where he took to his blog and basically denounced his detractors as being for the Empire with the implication that the Empire was composed of homophobes (he apparently forgot that an earlier book in the Disney canon, Lords of the Sith had an explicitly lesbian moff, who was open enough with her sexuality that she even was “married”. Now, Legends-verse Empire, I probably could agree they weren’t fond of sexual deviancy, but not the Disney-verse Empire.).