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'Solo' Continues to Nosedive at Box Office

• https://www.thewrap.com, Jeremy Fuster

"Solo: A Star Wars Story" is continuing to fall fast at the box office, as industry estimates project a second weekend total of just $29 million.

On its second Friday, "Solo" only made $8.1 million, a staggering 77 percent drop from the already low $35.3 million the "Star Wars" anthology film made on its opening day. Even when taking out the $14.1 million from Thursday previews that counted towards the opening Friday total, the Friday-to-Friday drop is still 62 percent.

As for the weekend downtrend, a $29 million total would be a 66 percent drop-off from the film's $84.7 million Friday-Sunday launch. By comparison, the last "Star Wars" release, "The Last Jedi," had a drop-off of 67 percent.

But at least there were some mitigating factors for "Last Jedi." That film opened to $220 million and had its second weekend fall on the same weekend as Christmas Eve, historically one of the slowest box office days of the year. And ultimately, "Last Jedi" became the highest grossing release of 2017 with $1.33 billion, while "Solo" is on pace to become the lowest-grossing "Star Wars" film ever with a global total of $400-450 million.


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