Posted on 05/03/2018 9:41:36 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Disney/Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story has landed on tracking and the Memorial Day release per industry projections (not Disney) are forecasting a Friday through Monday start of $170M-plus at the domestic box office.
Sources tell Deadline that Solo‘s tracking is “pretty strong” with an unaided score of 28 that’s higher than Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($155M, 23 score) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($146.5M, 23). Unaided awareness indicates how strong the buzz is on a title among those who are unprompted in polling and it’s a priceless stat off which studios buy their TV ads. Definite interest of 55 is higher than Spider-Man: Homecoming‘s 53 and that latter pic opened to $117M. Males under and over 25 are the dominant demo here for Solo.
As we always report, these are estimates and we’re still three weeks away from the pic’s May 25 opening. There’s always a chance for fluctuation. Should Solo debut to $150M+ over four-days, that’s still phenomenal for a Memorial Day release considering the top two openings belong to Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($139.8M) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($126.9M). The first TV spots that dropped during and following The Super Bowl endured some criticism from fans for various reasons, however, looking at this estimates for Solo, business should be fine for this Star Wars spinoff. Every devoted fanbase is going to have their passionate criticism and as we saw with the bold moves that Star Wars: The Last Jedi took in its plot twists, that didn’t hinder ticket sales from that film from reaching $620M stateside, $1.3 billion worldwide.
Like the NYTimes and book rankings (where publishers would ghost purchase books) I believe Disney is doing the same with tickets as a marketing ploy.
From what I’ve seen in the trailer, the quality of the writing is lower than usual, even for a Star Wars movie. Not to mention the wretched acting (as expected).
Lifelong Star Wars fan here and I could not possibly be less excited about Solo. It’s a movie that never needed to be made.
I see “firefly” as a form of “the former adventures of Han Solo”.
Disney has ruined the franchise.
The first time in my life I saw all of this “pre-release” sales hype was with that recent movie with the black superhero. This is the second. I’m seeing a trend.
Disney has ruined the franchise.
At the end of the day, they are just movies. And as movies go, they are not all that bad. I say this as a guy that saw the very first movie in the theater 27 times.
Lucas ruined the franchise with the horrendous prequel trilogy, but Disney’s ethnic cleansing poured gasoline over the remains and lit it on fire.
Sorry Disney, SW is as dead to me as the nfl.
I am surprised “Solo” didn’t make his back story that he was born a female and had sexual reassignment operation at age 11 or so.
People who still watch SW movies after them almost destroying the canon in “the farce awakens” (aka “A New Hope 2.0”) and the crapped all over it in “lost plot” (aka “Empire 2.0.”) baffle me.
I’m a SW fan who was not too enthused (Han without Harrison???), but I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve done with the character. I’ll go.
And then record a 3 hour youtube review explaining exactly how it ruined their childhood.
You could not drag me to a Disney Star Wars movie. They have all stunk. I watched the first 2 out of curiosity and hated both. It will be a cold day in hell before I watch another Star Wars or Star Trek movie. Both franchises have been irreparably destroyed.
Young people have no clue how awful these movies are because their standards are so low after 2 decades of mostly dreadful rancid movies coming from hollywood. I cant remember the last movie made after 2015 I really liked and was satisfied after.
Hollywood is dead. Nothing but crap cmes from them anymore. Really dismal.
Disney only finished ruining what Jar Jar Binks began.
To me, there are only 3 star wars movies.
Agreed!
I loved that show.
That pretty much sounds like Hayden Christensen's acting in episodes 2 and 3.
Back when “The Force Awakens” was in theaters, I oberheard two guys talk as they passed me in a parking lot.
“I can’t stand that new Star Wars movie - it put me right to sleep!”
I wanted to yell out “That can’t be! ‘The Force Awakens!’”
They lost me after the “cute teddy bear” film. But I don’t put anyone down for liking the SW movies. We all have our favorite forms of escape.
Really, only 2-1/2 movies. The Ewoks were pretty bad. That being said, I did like “Rogue One.”
Also, I’d like to get the original trilogy on Blu-Ray untainted by the CGI (and the Hayden Christensen cameo) that Lucas added to the re-issue.
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