Opening Weekend: $84,751,000
OUCH!! What's the budget? Anyone know? Finally fans are speaking out or maybe cause it has a guy as lead they're raging Han isn't pansexual or a woman.
In China the 2nd biggest film place it only made $10.1 million... lawl. Kathleen must be fisting her pussy right now in rage at the sale numbers.
$250 million before Ron Howard reshot most of the film. $50 million minimum added with reshoots. Then add millions more for promotion.
Then to really top it off, toys aren't selling which is usually where most of the profit comes from.
$103,000 million opening weekend when you add Monday. Some boycotters were going to delay seeing this movie until the 2nd or 3rd weekend. The percentage drop-off for upcoming weekend should be interesting. I'm hoping boycotters just skip it altogether.
I guess the Chinese figured out it was a Star Wars movie even though Disney tried to trick them by leaving the title off. LOL.
whats astounding about the China numbers (10m opening) is that Star TREK (Beyond) had a 30m opening there..as did Alien Covenant!! (as well as Rogue 1 and TLJ)... its actually similar to the megabomb Blade Runner 2 that also had a disastrous weekend with 7.5m
and just look at the diminishing box office for each recent SW movie in China - guess the Chinese must just really hate SW lol
Disappointing Opening Weekend in Germany: 330000 visitors compared to 1.1 million for Rogue One..
shareBlade Runner 2 is not a valid comparison. Blade Runner is a cult movie... but not a mainstream one, like Star Wars. It was never a box office hit, not even the original one. That type of movie are rarely hits (unless the director is English, his name is Christopher and the writer is his brother).
Problem with it were the over-expectations.
Star Wars, on the other side, it's the very definition of mainstream pop-corn.
i know which makes Solos comparisons to BR2 even worse!
but BR2 was expected to do ALOT better than it did
Don't forget China and India have their own self-contained movie industries to cater to such huge populations, with literally THOUSANDS of home-grown characters in THOUSANDS of movies over many, many years. They probably have their own version of Star Wars, especially China, with their own mythology to draw on.
Asking the Chinese to take an interest in the Western World's Star Wars is like if we seek out China's or India's highest-rated and most popular big movies, and most of us are not going to do that.
The Chinese are smart and are as fed up with Uber-PC being shoved down our throats as we are. They also recognize the sharp drop in quality from each new release. Disney is crafting paper-thin storylines for their Star Wars films.
While badly-written, Lucas' prequels were at least creative stories if nothing else. Disney is basically taking cookie-cutter Star Wars elements and cobbling them together to make generic movies.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-28/disney-s-china-puzzle-unsolved-as-another-star-wars-film-flops
Seems like they gave it a chance with TFW but then saw the western agenda stuff and just puked and stopped going altogether. Mind you they have their own movies that cater to them as well. Have you seen any Asian films show in your theaters? Usually about every couple of months or less I see 1-2 Chinese films from China appear in our theaters which did well over in there but not so much here though where I live there is a large Asian presence so that probably makes up for it to some degree.
For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_China
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wolfwarrior2.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mermaid2016.htm
Ron Howard responds to low sales
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/solo-a-star-wars-story-box-office-ron-howard-responds-1201968990/
So I am assuming they'll need to make $625 million to break even from the reshoots and such.
Good. They deserve it.
To those who keep thinking that only a tiny minority of fans were angered by The Last Jedi--think again. The money doesn't lie. Disney made a HUGE and PERVERSE mistake in letting Rain Johnson take a string of steaming dumps all over Star Wars and it cost them big.
Expect these diminishing returns to become the status quo for Disney Star Wars.
And to those still in doubt--you watch as that "vocal minority" causes the box office to lower further for each subsequent film.
Don't fuck with a fabase, Disney. This isn't just some Tom, Dick and Harry franchise--this is STAR WARS.