HAN SOLO MEMORIAL (day weekend) THREAD | Solo Flops Domestically with 83M/101M weekend. Spectacularly Bombs Overseas with 65M weekend.

[Celedhring]

1 minute ago, YLF said:

I haven't seen the prequels. :/

Don't.

[The Futurist]

Asia s indiferrence to Star Wars is a headscracher.

They really don't give  a fuck about it, not in the least.

A huge blindspot for one of the biggest brand in the world.

Not sure there is a remedy or a solution.

Something about Star Wars just doesn't interest them.

 

As some pointed out, when you see how IW performed there ... Japan excluded maybe ...

[Mekanos]

3 minutes ago, opkoad said:

Well said. One of the reasons I like the OT far more than the PT is the intimacy of the interactions and the economy of the visual storytelling. For the latter, it seems that Lucas would not have had it that way, if not for the budgetary and technical constraints of the time. So a large part of the appeal of SW for me is something Lucas did against his will.

As a kid I never touched the OT because the prequels were my first major exposure to Star Wars and they bored me out of my mind. It wasn't until my 20s I really sat down and watched the OT proper and they clicked with me (well... at least the first two movies). There is definitely an intimacy lost in the prequels and part of that is Lucas being terrible at directing actors, and the other part is deciding to depict the Jedi as a bunch of boring Vulcans.

[Krissykins]

After Deadpool 2 and Solo let’s start just taking $5-20m off the low end of industry tracking for the rest of the summer lol. 

[The Futurist]

The only man who can defeat the MCU now is :

 

 

He s our only hope of seeing uber batshit box office numbers again I'd say in the  next 5 years ...

 

Like I said many times, all the biggest franchises have peaked now ... and there is no new blood on the horizon ...

Edited May 26, 2018 by The Futurist

[XO21]

Deadline is reporting $300m plus for the budget..yep they gonna lose a ton of money on this. 

[Darth Lehnsherr]

3 minutes ago, Mekanos said:

That would be cool. That's also one of the (many) problems with the prequels. The Jedi are supposed to be mysterious and detached but they're really just Space Cops there. I think there is room to experiment but I feel like one of the reasons I was uninterested in the old EU is they tried to play so close to the prequels' depiction of the Jedi which doesn't do anything for me.

The mistake of the EU (and I feel some Star Wars fans) is that Luke wouldn't have recreated the Jedi Order like the prequels. The point is that the Jedi Order in the prequels were wrong (which is reinforced in The Clone Wars and The Last Jedi). So those clamouring that the "real" Luke would have set up a Jedi Academy like in the EU IMO are mistaken. That definitely wasn't what George Lucas was thinking about as you can see in some of his sequel trilogy treatments. 

 

[Brainbug]

6 minutes ago, YLF said:

I haven't seen the prequels. :/

 

Dont watch Phantom Menace, but listen to its soundtrack. The same for Attack of the Clones. Hail John Williams.

 

Watch Revenge of the Sith though. It is hilarious if you are familiar with most of the memes.

[oMeriMombatti]

	rank	film	dis.	screens (chg)	fri	3-day (-%)	4-day	total	wk #
	1	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Dis	4,381	$36.5M	$92.6M	$114.5M	—	1
	2	Deadpool 2	Fox	4,349	$11.6M (-78%)	$41.2M (-67%)	$52M	$216.7M	2
	3	Avengers: Infinity War	Dis	3,768 (-234)	$3.9M (-46%)	$15.3M (-48%)	$19.7M	$624.9M	5
	4	Book Club	Par	2,810 (+29)	$2.6M (-45%)	$9.6M (-29%)	$12.2M	$34.6M	2
	5	Life of the Party	NL/WB	2,937 (-719)	$1.3M (-41%)	$4.9M (-36%)	$6.3M	$40.2M	3
	6	Breaking In	Uni	1,985 (-552)	$1.1M (-47%)	$4.2M (-38%)	$5.5M	$37M	3
	7	Show dogs	GR	3,212	$792k (-44%)	$3M (-51%)	$4M	$11.6M	2
	8	Overboard	LG/MGM	1,196 (-624)	$649K  (-44%)	$2.76M (-40%)	$3.6M	$42.1M	4
	9	A Quiet Place	Par	1,524 (-803)	$583K (-48%)	$2.1M (-46%)	$2.7M	$180.3M	8
	10	RBG	Mag	415 (+37)	$250K (-21%)	$964K (-23%)	$1.2M	$5.7M	4

[opkoad]

3 minutes ago, Mekanos said:

As a kid I never touched the OT because the prequels were my first major exposure to Star Wars and they bored me out of my mind. It wasn't until my 20s I really sat down and watched the OT proper and they clicked with me (well... at least the first two movies). There is definitely an intimacy lost in the prequels and part of that is Lucas being terrible at directing actors, and the other part is deciding to depict the Jedi as a bunch of boring Vulcans.

That's cool to hear that they clicked with you more, despite the age of those movies when you saw them. I was 5 when Empire came out so I've been with it almost since the beginning.

[Brainbug]

Uggh that 11,6M for Deadpool seems...uggh. But i still think it can recover.

[opkoad]

2 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

 

Dont watch Phantom Menace, but listen to its soundtrack. The same for Attack of the Clones. Hail John Williams.

 

Watch Revenge of the Sith though. It is hilarious if you are familiar with most of the memes.

There's a big lightsaber battle in Clones though, if you want to check that out YLF.

[Rebeccas]

7 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

After Deadpool 2 and Solo let’s start just taking $5-20m off the low end of industry tracking for the rest of the summer lol. 

Not for IW! 

[Krissykins]

2 minutes ago, Rebeccas said:

Not for IW! 

Not a summer film. 

[Krissykins]

7 minutes ago, oMeriMombatti said:

	rank	film	dis.	screens (chg)	fri	3-day (-%)	4-day	total	wk #
	1	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Dis	4,381	$36.5M	$92.6M	$114.5M	—	1
	2	Deadpool 2	Fox	4,349	$11.6M (-78%)	$41.2M (-67%)	$52M	$216.7M	2
	3	Avengers: Infinity War	Dis	3,768 (-234)	$3.9M (-46%)	$15.3M (-48%)	$19.7M	$624.9M	5
	4	Book Club	Par	2,810 (+29)	$2.6M (-45%)	$9.6M (-29%)	$12.2M	$34.6M	2
	5	Life of the Party	NL/WB	2,937 (-719)	$1.3M (-41%)	$4.9M (-36%)	$6.3M	$40.2M	3
	6	Breaking In	Uni	1,985 (-552)	$1.1M (-47%)	$4.2M (-38%)	$5.5M	$37M	3
	7	Show dogs	GR	3,212	$792k (-44%)	$3M (-51%)	$4M	$11.6M	2
	8	Overboard	LG/MGM	1,196 (-624)	$649K  (-44%)	$2.76M (-40%)	$3.6M	$42.1M	4
	9	A Quiet Place	Par	1,524 (-803)	$583K (-48%)	$2.1M (-46%)	$2.7M	$180.3M	8
	10	RBG	Mag	415 (+37)	$250K (-21%)	$964K (-23%)	$1.2M	$5.7M	4

Yes for Book Club, great hold. 

 

Life of the Party and Breaking In having good holds this weekend too, both securing $40m+ totals, same with Overboard. 

 

Congrats to A Quiet Place for passing $180m, incredible. 

[Mekanos]

8 minutes ago, opkoad said:

That's cool to hear that they clicked with you more, despite the age of those movies when you saw them. I was 5 when Empire came out so I've been with it almost since the beginning.

I gave the OT another shot because of Red Letter Media's prequel reviews. I think Star Wars is slow to start but it's filled with iconic moments and it's hard to not have a big grin on your face when Luke blows up the Death Star. Empire is a masterpiece and puts almost every blockbuster in the last decade to shame. Jedi is... I really like the first act but after that it just feels anticlimactic and can't give anything interesting to its non-Luke protagonists. Not bad but disappointing I feel. I also think the Luke/Leia twist is still stupid but obviously there's no turning the clock back on that one.

Edited May 26, 2018 by Mekanos

[opkoad]

1 minute ago, Mekanos said:

I gave the OT another shot because of Red Letter Media's prequel reviews. I think Star Wars is slow to start but it's filled with iconic moments and it's hard to not have a big grin on your face when Luke blows up the Death Star. Empire is a masterpiece and puts almost every blockbuster in the last decade to shame since. Jedi is... I really like the first act but after that it just feels anticlimactic and can't give anything interesting to its non-Luke protagonists. Not bad but disappointing I feel. I also think the Luke/Leia twist is still stupid but obviously there's no turning the clock back on that one.

Haha, yeah I love those reviews. OK, getting super off-topic, sorry mods.

[eXtacy]

To be honest they just keep revisiting the same things in Star Wars. I want new characters and settings. 

[Fake]

Deadline projecting 114.5M for solo. That would require 30% jump from true Friday. I am thinking closer to 20%.

 

Big drop for Deadpool. Should finish with 300m. But Hey, it's beating a Star Wars movie...

 

Really hope the final nunber for IW is above 4M... otherwise $2B WW will be in danger.

[RealLyre]

14 minutes ago, oMeriMombatti said:

	rank	film	dis.	screens (chg)	fri	3-day (-%)	4-day	total	wk #
	1	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Dis	4,381	$36.5M	$92.6M	$114.5M	—	1
	2	Deadpool 2	Fox	4,349	$11.6M (-78%)	$41.2M (-67%)	$52M	$216.7M	2
	3	Avengers: Infinity War	Dis	3,768 (-234)	$3.9M (-46%)	$15.3M (-48%)	$19.7M	$624.9M	5
	4	Book Club	Par	2,810 (+29)	$2.6M (-45%)	$9.6M (-29%)	$12.2M	$34.6M	2
	5	Life of the Party	NL/WB	2,937 (-719)	$1.3M (-41%)	$4.9M (-36%)	$6.3M	$40.2M	3
	6	Breaking In	Uni	1,985 (-552)	$1.1M (-47%)	$4.2M (-38%)	$5.5M	$37M	3
	7	Show dogs	GR	3,212	$792k (-44%)	$3M (-51%)	$4M	$11.6M	2
	8	Overboard	LG/MGM	1,196 (-624)	$649K  (-44%)	$2.76M (-40%)	$3.6M	$42.1M	4
	9	A Quiet Place	Par	1,524 (-803)	$583K (-48%)	$2.1M (-46%)	$2.7M	$180.3M	8
	10	RBG	Mag	415 (+37)	$250K (-21%)	$964K (-23%)	$1.2M	$5.7M	4

@Nova

 

your $260M prediction for DP2 seems high now