‘Solo’ had the biggest opening ever … for a heist movie
June 3, 2018Han Solo has got himself in a whole bunch of money troubles again — Earth money this time, not galactic credits.
Solo: A Star Wars Story made $101 million at the U.S. box office over the four-day Memorial Day weekend. That was far short of the $130 million Disney had projected, and the weakest opening weekend for any Star Wars live action film since 2002’s Attack of the Clones.
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But if you set its stellar expectations aside, Solo has already smashed box office records … from a certain point of view.
Not only was it the strongest May movie opening since 2014, but the genre that Solo belongs in — the heist movie — has never seen numbers like this. Mega-hits like Inception, Fast Five and Ocean’s Eleven, not to mention Oscar winners like Argo, could only dream of a $100 million opening weekend. (Numbers below courtesy of Box Office Mojo.) Read more…
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