#SOLO A STAR WARS STORY MOVIE#
The movie had the misfortune to hit multiplexes just one week after the juggernaut opening weekend of Deadpool 2 (which has racked up $207.4 million to date) and in the long wake of one of 2018’s most successful movies, Avengers: Infinity War ($622 million after five weeks in theaters) - two splashy blockbusters widely seen as eating into Solo’s intended fanboy audience.
And arriving on the heels of December’s less-than-ecstatically received Star Wars: The Last Jedi - amid a hive of negative buzz about Solo’s legendarily troubled production - some fans viewed the “space Western” as a cynical exercise in franchise expansion, with some diehards even actively rooting for Solo’s floppage. So what happened? Related StoriesĪttempting to satisfy die-hard Star Wars aficionados while wooing younger filmgoers with the Dickensian origin story of franchise fan favorite Han Solo, the film didn’t make the jump to light speed with many critics, clocking a lackluster 70 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. But Star Wars is Disney’s premium product and Solo is showing every indication of underperforming previous franchise installments. Under normal circumstances, any opening above $100 million would be cause to break out Champagne on the back lot. Even worse, in an era when surging overseas ticket sales have taken up the slack for Hollywood’s domestic movie misfires, the prequel - which cost around $400 million to make and market - only delivered $68.2 million in foreign box-office receipts. Estimated by prerelease “tracking” reports to pull in as much as $150 million over its four-day Memorial Day weekend bow, the sci-fi thriller yielded a mere $101 million, according to ComScore, to become the lowest-grossing first weekend for a Star Wars installment (adjusted for inflation) to date. That is to say, Solo: A Star Wars Story, the stand-alone prequel to the reliably blockbuster Galaxy Far Far Away franchise, arrived well short of financial expectations over its opening weekend in theaters. The Millennium Falcon failed to achieve liftoff. Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo and Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca in Solo: A Star Wars Story Photo: Jonathan Olley/Jonathan Olley /Lucasfilm Ltd.
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