With Solo: A Star Wars Story beginning its global rollout in a few short hours, Deadline is reporting that the second Star Wars Anthology movie is tracking a worldwide opening of between $285 million and $340 million.
Domestic projections suggest that Solo is looking at a four-day Memorial weekend of between $135 million and $170 million, with a further $150 million to $170 million from the international markets. This includes a debut of between $10 million and $25 million in China – a market where Star Wars traditionally struggles.
On U.S. soil, Solo could set a Memorial Day weekend record, currently held by 2007’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, which debuted to $139.8 million. It may also surpass 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($155 million), although – unsurprisingly – it isn’t going to challenge Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($247.9 million) or Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($220 million).
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A new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
Solo: A Star Wars Story features Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!) as the famous smuggler, Donald Glover (Atlanta) as Lando Calrissian, Woody Harrelson (War for the Planet of the Apes) as Tobias Beckett, Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) as L3-37, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Qi’Ra, Thandie Newton (Westworld) as Val, Ian Kenny (Sing Street) as Rebolt, Harley Durst (Wonder Woman) as Moloch, Jon Favreau (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Rio Durant, Tien Hoang (Now You See Me 2) as Moloch’s henchman, Paul Bettany (Avengers: Infinity War) as Dryden Vos and Warwick Davis (Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) in an as-yet-unrevealed role.
