Lucasfilms’ standalone Han Solo origin pic is faltering at the global box office, where it will top out in the $400 million range.
To borrow one of Han Solo’s lines from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, “that’s not how the Force works!”
It’s an apt way to sum up the troubled performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story. In one of the biggest box-office surprises in recent times, Solo is badly underperforming and will become the first of the Star Wars movies made by Disney and Lucasfilm to lose money.
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