Posted on 06/05/2019 8:31:45 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Ron Howard has said that online trolls were partly to blame for the lacklustre box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who is currently promoting upcoming documentary Pavarotti, told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that “aggressive trolling” was a crucial factor in the film’s financial under-performance but that he still greatly enjoyed the creative experience of making the film.
“I wish it could have lived up to the box office expectations,” Howard said. “That’s disappointing. Why didn’t it? Maybe that’s the release [date], maybe it was too nostalgic, maybe pushback from the previous movie…some trolling, definitely. It was especially noticeable in several algorithms such as Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. There was an inordinate push down on the ‘Want to see’ [score on Rotten Tomatoes] and on the fan voting. There was a series of 0s and 1s on there…I didn’t take it pers
Solo: A Star Wars Story mustered $393M at the global box office off an estimated $275M budget. Released last May, the film arrived only six months after The Last Jedi. Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker, due for a December release this year, will be the fifth Star Wars universe film released since 2015. Meanwhile, web series The Mandalorian is set for a November release. Previous Star Wars spinoff Rogue One took more than $1BN in 2016.
Rotten Tomatoes has subsequently adjusted its audience participation parameters after a torrent of negative comments for Captain Marvel, prior to the film’s release.
During the audio interview, Howard also discussed the growing power of TV and questioned whether some of his previous movies – including multi-Oscar winner A Beautiful Mind — would have been made for the big screen today. Howard said he now watches more TV series than films.
Among the projects in early stages at his Imagine Entertainment is a series version of his fantasy feature Willow, which is being discussed for Disney’s upcoming VOD platform Disney +. Howard confirmed that the series is being imagined as a “continuation not a reboot”, that he hopes to direct some of the series and that he hopes Willow star Warwick Davis will return for it. Jon Kasdan, co-writer on Solo: A Star Wars Story, is another driving force behind the project’s script. “Jon has an inspired take on it,” Howard said. “There are some really serious discussions going on about it.”
The filmmaker also disclosed that he is developing an animated musical movie and is in development on several musical adaptations of films he has previously directed for Imagine.
Next up for Howard is Netflix movie Hillbilly Elegy, which will star Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett and Gabriel Basso.
The Last Jedi vs Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Hard to pick the worst
Out of the disney crap movies i thought Solo was pretty good as well as the side other one.
The two main movies especially the last one SUCKED.
I will NEVER pay to see a disney star wars movie ever.
“The Rise Of Skywalker”?
I got a sock draw that needs to be organized..maybe i’ll go watch my grass grow or watch paint dry.
Disney paid $4B for the Star Wars franchise. Talk about buying in at the top of the market .
My fellow students at school in 4th grade...”I saw Star Wars three times!”...another says “Oh Yea, I saw it FOUR times!” kid walks up “I saw it FIVE times!!!”
THAT will never happen again.
A cultural phenomenon..
I still remember walking through the movie theater parking lot with my parents that fateful night like it was yesterday.
The Last Jedi sucked BAD....disney realllly f’ed themselves with that pos.
You really should watch The Empire Strikes Back. It was the best Star Wars movie ever made. Continue on to Return of the Jedi, but stop when you see Ewoks, and avert your eyes from any of the episodes that came after that. And for the love of all that is holy, DO NOT watch The Last Jedi; it was hideous beyond description.
I guess the people in Hollywood are just too stupid to predict how a movie will do.
The Rocky movies also had very long lines for a long time.
“mustered $393M at the global box office off an estimated $275M budget”
I don’t know what anyone is complaining about. They made $118M.
Hell if I could make a movie and get $2M above budget I’d be ecstatic.
this is hysterical. The attempt to manipulate Rotten Tomatoes has been to HYPE the movie. I’ve seen screen shots of multiple reviews all identically worded. It’s so obvious it’s painful. Meanwhile the reviews panning the movies all look genuine.
Fonzy could have jumped the space shark.
When Hollywood pushes it’s crap and its agenda, it’s called being woke.
When average Americans resist or avoid Hollywood, they’re called trolls.
It actually was an ok movie, but it was coming on the heels of a very bad Star Wars VIII, that was over the top on feminism.
Harrison Ford’s “Han Solo” was an Alpha Male.
The current Hollywood Establishment, particularly the Disney establishment, will not permit a white, heterosexual, Alpha Male in their movies any more. They will grudgingly permit a non-white, but he is not permitted to outshine the kick-ass heroine.
Yea people bragging they saw it many multiple time.
It was CRAZY.
A lot of other great movie during those times too.
Life has changed....and it sucks.
I saw Rocky 2 16 times. The audience reactions were so much fun!
Superman was another with long lines.
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