fronzelneekburm: Yet they keep releasing them for some strange reason. Maybe it's out of loyalty to the brand. Maybe they figure that earnings in the double-digits are better than no earnings at all. But I honestly don't think they're actually counting on these films suddenly becoming massive hits by some miraculous twist of fate.
As I understand there's a limit on how many foreign movies can be shown in China every year. I wonder if this might be the case of Disney wanting to screw over the competition by using up as much of that limit as possible, regardless of how much sense that makes for a particular film.
zlaywal: Star Wars fatigue anyone? I remember at last year May the 4th day, my 6 years old nephew who had cables in his house said "Star Wars again, Star Wars again.".
I was hoping to go see Solo with a much bigger group. In the end NONE of the people I went to see the three previous movies with even mentioned maybe wanting to see it, and they are huge SW fans who always bought tickets a month in advance. Another one when I asked him to come with us yesterday outright said he just doesn't feel like it.
It was the opening weekend, a Star Wars movie, and the room was mostly empty. It was kind of surreal honestly.
zlaywal: And according to the NYTimes, there are 9(!) in development.
Plus there's a live action tv show and a new animated one in the works.
That's why I said before they might have to take a break and go back to the drawing board. Disney was certain they can make Star Wars work just like Marvel, but SW isn't Marvel. They fell into the same trap that other studios did trying to ape the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I don't want them to stop making SW movies altogether, I don't want them to fail, after all I did have fun with Solo, but it's obvious this model isn't working.
To put thing in perspective - many people called Justice League a box office disaster (which was always a bit of an overstatement, but whatever), and that had a similiar budget (and also due to reshoots) as Solo, and it had a global opening weekend of 280 million. Solo has 150. Just let that sink in.