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Solo : A Star Wars Story’sworldwide box bureau total finally make it the domestic opening weekend forAvengers : Infinity War … after 10 Day in theaters . Plagued by product issues , major changes , and dim marketing , the late from Disney and Lucasfilm ’s revival meeting of the iconic franchise is well on its path to becoming , by far , the least commercially successful of the entire franchise . That ’s despite garnering decorous limited review from critics and prescribed word - of - sass from audience .
Even the polarizingStar war : The Last Jedi , the modish properStar Warsfilm , was still a huge box position succeeder with over $ 1.3 billion worldwide . The first standaloneStar Warsanthology movie , Rogue One : A Star Wars Story , earned over $ 1 billion globally . However , it seems thatSolo : A Star Wars Storyisn’t going to come nigh to either of them in that regard . And its shockingly wearisome pace all around the world at the box bureau , as compared toInfinity War’shot start , illustrates how poorly the movie is perform - specially byStar Warsstandards .
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According toBox Office Mojo , Solo : A Star Wars Storyfinished its second weekend at $ 264.2 million worldwide . That ( at long last ) passes the $ 257 million thatAvengers : Infinity Warmade in its first weekend in the U.S. alone . Solois well behind the $ 286 million thatRogue Oneearned in its first two weekends domestically . A bounteous ground for that is because Solo is n’t performing well at plate . In the U.S.,Sologrossed under $ 30 millionin its second weekend , which include a77 pct Friday - to - Friday free fall . And it ’s distinctly not fare much better in foreign markets , either ; its $ 30.3 million outside 144 this weekend testify just how poorly the film is doing globally .
Solo : A Star Wars Story’sdisappointment at the worldwide box bureau - along with its reported$250 million output budget- points to aStar Warsfilm that could , spectacularly , give out to break even when all is said and done . By equivalence , Infinity Warcost over $ 300 million to make and yet could cross the $ 2 billion threshold worldwide before it bows out of theaters .
regrettably for Lucasfilm and director Ron Howard , the treatment surroundingSolomoving forrard will be what went wrong . There are many reason forwhySolo : A Star Wars Storyisn’t doing well commercially . The movie ’s production problems , headlined by the director shift from Phil Lord & Chris Miller to Howard , made it feel doomed from the start . And its oddly late selling push surely did n’t cheer confidence , either . In luminousness of the fact that Disney ’s first threeStar Warsmovies topped $ 1 billion worldwide , it ’s been an astonishing drop - off forSolo , to say the least .
honest or not , Infinity Warwill be the benchmark to which every major release will be compare in 2018.Deadpool 2doesn’t look nearly as bad , nearing the $ 600 million worldwide mark as it blows bySolo , specially oversea . It remains to be realise what Disney and Lucasfilm settle to do from here , but there ’s not likely to be much surmount back for perhaps the most famous dealership in Hollywood . But whatever Disney does , Solo : A Star Wars Storyhas now put the studios in a position where J.J. Abrams’Star Wars : Episode IXneeds to be a major bounce - back drive .
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