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Originally Posted by Just Passin' By
Counting the Sunday estimate, Solo only cleared about $2.2m domestic this weekend. It's only cleared about $207m domestic to date, and it's not going to get to $250m. It probably won't get to $230m and might not get to $220m. Rogue One, by contrast, pulled in about $532m domestic.
At the foreign box, Rogue One pulled in just under $524m. Solo's currently sitting at under $162m, and probably won't make it to $170m. We're looking at a potential drop of something in excess of $650,000,000 at the box. That's a $650,000,000 drop and only a (generously estimated) $400,000,000 in sales.
With this disaster on top of the huge drop for TLJ, Iger would be crazy to keep Kennedy and Johnson in place.
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There is no reason to talk about domestic box office anymore unless its a small film. It's just a part now. No studio is going to make a $200+ million budget without considering how well its going to play internationally.
I think we can all agree that the total box office take is what makes a movie successful in the eyes of the decision makers at the studios, the ones who decide if a movie or a future movie is going to be made.
Guarantee you that every American studio is ramping up their Chinese focus film departments. 3 films over $500 million this year alone will get their attention.