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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. Re:Yawn ... by mOzone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't know if you noticed but last jedi toys are still roting on the shelfs ...Walmart has tons toys r us has crap tons even youtube videos where 80% price cut they are still sitting ..gonna take a long time for 250 million+ loss

  2. Re:It wasn't a terrible movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, it seems that Abrams had an outline for Ep. VIII written but Rian decided to completely ignore it and write his own story.