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According to Smuggler’s Run - A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure, which is a Star Wars: The Force Awakens prequel novel, and therefore part of the new canon, Chewie was at the Battle of Kashyyyk in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. And moreover, the book states he's 180 years old. That battle takes place in the year 19 BBY*, not long before the birth of the twins, means Chewie was 180 years old when they were born, when Han was all of 10.
Everywhere I've frequented online (rather a lot of places) it's being described as 'underwhelming' I'd suggest at this point that franchise fatigue has set in - still just over another year for the next. hey ho
it's being described as 'underwhelming' I'd suggest at this point that franchise fatigue has set in
they just need to learn that they don't shit gold and lots of thought and TLC needs to go into making a quality film. Although I thought I was going to be proved wrong, people aren't going to watch something just because it says "Star Wars" on the front. This poor start will put it on track for a $500 million gross which is what I predicted a few weeks ago. I didn't think it was going to happen though. Hopefully this will give them pause for though for the future and make them carefully consider who they get to do the films and how they do them. Out of the zillions of actors who must have auditioned for the role of Han, who picks somebody who can't flipping act?
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Weekend Estimates: Solo Opens Lower than Expected with $101 million, Still Dominates Competition
Solo: A Star Wars Story opened with an estimated $83 million / $101 million over the three-day / four-day weekend. It had the best Memorial Day long weekend since 2014, when X-Men: Days of Future Past opened with $111 million over four days. In fact, this result is the fourth best Memorial Day long weekend opening in the past decade. That said, it was much lower than expected and some are calling it a box office failure. That’s complicated. The film was originally going to cost $150 million to make, making it the cheapest installment in the new Star Wars franchise. However, they reportedly had to reshoot 70% of the movie, which lifted the price to $250 million. The box office needed to break even during the film’s initial push into the home market rose from about $500 million to $650 million. And with an initial international debut of $65.0 million in 54 markets, this film is just not going to get there. The unending talk of behind-the-scenes trouble seems to have hurt the film’s box office chances and even its good reviews and its A minus from CinemaScore won’t be enough to turn things around. That said, it is far from a complete disaster and the franchise will continue, although it might be wise for Disney to not release so many installments in the franchise so quickly. Three in 18 months is a bit too much.
It was a heist movie in the Star Wars universe, filling in some of the Han/Chewie/Lando & Millennium Falcon back-story.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story fell 65% to $29.40 million over the weekend for a two-week total of $148.99 million. The film is on pace to reach $200 million domestically, which would have been enough to break even eventually, had the film not needed extensive and expensive reshoots. Disney should still be very happy with the overall franchise, but will hopefully slow down the number of films that come out to one every other year.
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I think Disney had braced themselves for the film to perform poorly after the problems they had in production and I am not sure if they thought Ron Howard could turn it around or salvage it and protect the franchise - otherwise why pay so much to reshoot so much of the film?
I am also not sure why they released it so near Infinity War and Deadpool since the franchises are big this year.
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I saw it on Friday night and loved it. I especially loved the imperial military recruitment video that used John Williams’ Imperial March as its theme tune.
I don't know many people that actually didn't enjoy it.
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Even folk who disliked TLJ really liked it.
yup, that is why it is doing so well
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I am also not sure why they released it so near Infinity War and Deadpool since the franchises are big this year.
I can't remember the reasoning for it but originally it was planned for xmas like the other new Star Wars movies and they made the decision to bring it forward to May.to coincide with the release dates of the earlier movies.
Solo: A Star Wars Story has “only” garnered $264 million at the box office. While $264 seems like a lot of money (note: if anyone wants to give me “only” $264 million, I’d be fine with that), it’s a low figure for a Star Wars movie. The bad box office has inspired a plethora of takes. Some blame franchise fatigue; some think the film should’ve moved to a December release date, since December seems to be the new home for Star Wars; some think the behind-the-scenes production woes, like the firing of original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, turned off fans. But maybe the real reason Solo failed is marketing.
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