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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. The force by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is weak with this one.

    1. Re:The force by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The FIRST Star Wars is still in the red, so this is perfectly normal.

      CAP === 'grateful'

  2. Re: Surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Force aWakens

  3. Re: No it won't by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Han Solo would probably approve of people tormenting the Solo movie anyway, he being a smuggler and pirate afterall.

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