‘Solo’ Box Office Tracking Suggests A Record-Breaking Opening Weekend
One day, audiences may grow tired ofStar Warsmovies. But that day is not today. EarlySolobox office tracking hints at a record-breaking opening weekend for the latestStar Warsfilm.
Solo Box Office Tracking
Solo: A Star Wars Storyblasts into theaters this weekend, and early reports indicate it’s going to be big. PerDeadline, “domestic projections over the four-day Memorial Day holiday are ranging from $135 million-$170 million, with overseas projected at $150M-$170M.” If this ends up being correct, it’ll be the first $100 million-plus Memorial Day weekend opening sinceX-Men: Days of Future Pastin 2014. The current Memorial Day weekend record holder is another Disney film – 2007’sPirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, which took in $139.8 million. There’s every indication thatSolowill end-up beating that. In other words, it’s good to be Disney.
Advance ticket sales forSolohave already surpassed the record-breakingBlack Panther(anotherDisney film!), and ifSologarners good word-of-mouth over its opening weekend, you may expect its box office intake to skyrocket. Disney and Lucasfilm have set things up so that we essentially get some sort ofStar Warsfilm every single year, and while such an idea might inspire a sort-ofStar Wars-fatigue, that hasn’t happened yet. Next year will see the release date ofStar Wars: Episode 9. You can expect yet another spin-off film (probably the long-rumoredObi-Wan Kenobi movie) in 2020. And then there’s thenew trilogybeing developed byRian Johnson, and additionalStar Warsfilmsbeing penned byGame of ThronescreatorsDavid BenioffandD. B. Weiss. I’m no psychic, but I’ll go out on a limb and say all these movies will end up making a ton of money as well.
Solo: A Star Wars Storyco-starEmilia Clarkerecently appeared onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonto promote the latestStar Warsfilm. Clarke brought a clip from the film with her, which you’re able to watch above. In the clip, Clarke’s character Qi’ra is reunited with her childhood friend Han (Alden Ehrenreich) after fate (and the Empire) separated them. Han’s goal inSolois to return home with his own ship and rescue Qi’ra, but midway through the movie he encounters Qi’ra in an unlikely place, and learns that she might not need rescuing.
This is a fairly low-key, l0w-action clip from the film, but it highlights the banter between the characters pretty well. There’s also an appearance here fromWoody Harrelsonas Han’s sort-of-mentor Tobias Beckett.
