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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Oops! I wrote Chassidic. Meant Chassids, i.e. Chabad.
A bit of unsolicited trivia. Michael Crichton is the only person to have the #1 TV show, movie, and book at the same time.
Tim Allen also did that back in 1994.
I believe in Chabad, so, I trust them. They don’t say the world is going to end. They say Moshiach, the Messiah, will arrive, and the world will be transformed to a more Divine place.
I’m taking care of myself by following the religion that believes and acts on Hashem’s word. BTW, Hashem is their word for G-d.
I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up.
Well last night “Solo” was available to buy and watch and I did so.
I have only watched the first half of the movie. My take on it, it’s not that great, but it isn’t that bad. Acting is fine and so far I like it. As for Ron Howard doing this film, he was a huge mistake. Howard is not an action director and a film like this needs a full blown action director to make it work and it could have worked better.
While the guy playing Solo would not be my first choice, he’s okay, I would have gotten someone taller with a little more screen presence.
If this film could have been made for less than $100 Million and marketed better it would have made money instead of losing money.
There were just way too many expectations for this film and it set itself up for failure along with those that made it.
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