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'Solo' Will Lose $50+ Million In First Defeat For Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire (hollywoodreporter.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the just-wait-for-the-Boba-Fett-movie dept.

Zorro shares a report from The Hollywood Reporter: To borrow one of Han Solo's lines from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, "That's not how the Force works!" It's an apt way to sum up the troubled performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story. In one of the biggest box-office surprises in recent times, Solo is badly underperforming and will become the first of the Star Wars movies made by Disney and Lucasfilm to lose money. Wall Street analyst Barton Crockett says Solo will lose more than $50 million. Industry financing sources, however, say that figure could come in at $80 million or higher, although no one knows the exact terms of Disney's deals for home entertainment and television, among other ancillary revenues.

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  1. Surprised by Evtim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only surprise is that it did not happen after TFW.
    Disney decided that their public destruction and deliberate attack against world's mythology is bought by the masses....well most people on Earth and particularly the West are old(ish). The brainwahed kids don't know any better but we do....
    SW is dead, and good riddance! I'm gonna watch Ep5 tonight to remember what real story telling is about.

    1. Re: Surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The big problem with Solo was that Solo was not Harrison Ford but instead Literally Who the Jew whose father was Steven Spielberg's accountant. He was hired out of nepotism, not acting skill or looks. Ford was a real actor who looked good; Ehrenreich isn't skilled or handsome.

      The other problem is that Solo's backstory never should have been told. Mystery is better than a prequel.

  2. Re:Perfect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are a sodomite.