Analysts believe that Solo: A Star Wars Story may not manage to crack $250 million at the domestic box office in its entire theatrical run. It’s predicted that the latest addition to the Star Wars franchise will fail to pass $250 million domestically, a figure that Star Wars: The Force Awakens almost smashed in its opening weekend alone. To put that $250 million total in context, Disney’s previous Star Wars movies, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Rogue One, all passed $1 billion worldwide.
The film’s mammoth overshoot on production costs hasn’t helped, with a directorial change and lengthy reshoots causing costs to double from a budgeted $125 million to a queasy $250 million. Solo will have to hit $500 million worldwide just to break even. At the moment, analysts are predicting a $30 million take on home turf this weekend, and with the weekend after that said to be even lower, $250 million is suddenly looking like an impossibility.
Despite the low numbers, however, the film is receiving critical praise for the performance of Alden Ehrenreich as the titular character, Han Solo, and Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian.
Directed by Ron Howard from a script written by Lawrence Kasdan and son Jon Kasdan, the film stars Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, Paul Bettany and Ian Kenny.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is now playing in theaters.
Source: Deadline
