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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story Director Responds To Film's Underwhelming Box Office Opening

Solo: A Star Wars Story flew lower than expected at the box office this weekend, and now, director Ron Howard is addressing the situation. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, the film was projected to earn between $130 to $150 million upon launch, but only pulled in $83.3 million over the three-day weekend.

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Julia Bianco

Solo: A Star Wars Story Has Disappointing $83.3 Million Three-Day Opening

Solo: A Star Wars Story is flying a little low at the box office. The movie opened to a disappointing $83.3 million over the three-day weekend, suggesting a $101 million four-day debut.This is severely down from initial tracking, which had the movie pegged for a $130 to $150 million debut.

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Collin David

Small Details You Missed In Solo: A Star Wars Story

From name-checked bounty hunters to familiar face masks and so much more, here are the small details you may have missed in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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Sarah Szabo

The Ending Of Solo: A Star Wars Story Explained

Luckily, we've got some tricks up our sleeve to help even the scruffiest-looking nerf herder make some sense of it all. In short, you're all clear, kid — let's explain the ending of this thing and go home.

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Scott Harris-King

Solo: A Star Wars Story's Biggest Unanswered Questions

We're here to help sort through all the dangling plot threads and loose ends so you can focus on what, exactly, the final act of the saga's latest anthology entry leaves us with. Here are the biggest answered questions in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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Andrew Handley

Characters In Solo: A Star Wars Story With More Meaning Than You Realized

True to form, the movie is a menagerie of aliens, droids, and rebel scum, and believe it or not, a few of those characters come into play in other Star Wars stories.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story: How Jack Nicholson Influenced Alden Ehrenreich's Performance

In Solo: A Star Wars Story, young Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich wasn't supposed to do a spot-on impersonation of Harrison Ford, but even still, hints of another famous actor made their way into Ehrenreich's performance. Here's how Jack Nicholson influenced the actor's performance.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story: Original Lando Calrissian Actor Gave Donald Glover Some 'Really Helpful' Advice

With Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover had some major shoes to fill in starring as a young Lando Calrissian, the infamous (and infamously suave) gambler originated by Billy Dee Williams. Thankfully, Williams gave Glover some sage advice ahead of playing Lando. Here's what the actor said.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story Tracking For $130 Million-Plus Opening Weekend

In exciting box office news, Solo: A Star Wars Story is eyeing a record-breaking $130 million-plus domestic opening over the long Memorial Day weekend. In not-as-exciting box office news, Solo is tracking for an opening that comes in lower than recent Star Wars movie releases.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story: What Billy Dee Williams Thought Of Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian

While Donald Glover may seem like the kind of guy who can do it all, Solo: A Star Wars Story presented him with an enormous feat some weren't sure he could achieve: playing a young Lando Calrissian, the character originated by Billy Dee Williams. Here's how Williams feels about Glover's performance.

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AJ Caulfield

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Explains Her Awkward Solo: A Star Wars Story Audition

While some Star Wars auditions, like Daisy Ridley's for Rey in The Force Awakens, go swimmingly, others are super awkward. Phoebe Waller-Bridge suffered the latter fate when she auditioned for her role as Lando Calrissian's droid companion L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story Actors Detail How To Speak The Wookiee Language

While many Star Wars franchise fans have imitated Chewbacca's roars, none have fully mastered the language he speaks. Solo: A Star Wars Story actors Alden Ehrenreich and Joonas Suotamo are here to change that, explaining how to speak the Wookiee language, Shyriiwook.

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Sarah Szabo

Star Wars' Lando Is Pansexual, According To Solo Writer

The Star Wars series' Lando Calrissian has long been known as the single sexiest figure in the movies' universe — and apparently, his passion knows no limits, baby. A recent comment from the screenwriter of Solo shed some light on the galactic gangster's love life — and it involves robots, too.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story: What The Critics Are Saying

Solo: A Star Wars Story is fast approaching, gearing up to fly into cinemas on May 25, and some fans worried whether the movie would live up to its predecessors

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story First Reactions Revealed

Solo: A Star Wars Story isn't set to fly into cinemas until May 25, but a handful of lucky people got to board the Millennium Falcon and journey to the galaxy far, far away ahead of time. Those who attended Solo's world premiere have spilled their thoughts on the Ron Howard-directed standalone.

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Sarah Szabo

Star Wars: Report Claims Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie Scheduled To Film In 2019

Star Wars has another story to tell about a character we thought we knew. According to a report by Star Wars news site Fantha Tracks, pre-production has begun on a spinoff movie focusing on the adventures of the famed Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, with filming set to commence in spring 2019.

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Julia Bianco

Solo: A Star Wars Story Advance Ticket Sales Outpacing Black Panther's

Solo: A Star Wars Story is poised to become an intergalactic box office success. The movie's Fandango pre-sales have already doubled those of Marvel's box office juggernaut Black Panther in just the first 24 hours.

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Ricky Derisz

How John Wick Changed Action Movies And No One Noticed

Here's how John Wick rewrote the rules for the modern action genre.

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AJ Caulfield

The Solo: A Star Wars Story Scene That George Lucas Changed

Though Lucasfilm passed on Star Wars franchise creator George Lucas' vision for the current film trilogy, Solo: A Star Wars Story director Ron Howard wasn't going to turn down input from the legend himself. Howard has revealed that Lucas offered insight that ended up altering the Han Solo prequel.

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AJ Caulfield

Solo: A Star Wars Story Tracking For $170 Million Domestic Debut

Solo: A Star Wars Story is slated to make a statement at the box office later this month. Early tracking projections forecast that the Alden Ehrenreich-starring film will score a $170 million-plus domestic opening when it officially debuts on Friday, May 25.

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Christopher Gates

What To Know Before You See Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story takes us back to our favorite smuggler's early days, but what do you need to know before you head to the theater?

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AJ Caulfield

Star Wars Congratulates Avengers: Infinity War On Record-Breaking Opening Weekend

Following the confirmation that Avengers: Infinity War officially earned the biggest domestic opening weekend of all time, taking home $258.2 million across North America towards a $630 million international pull, Star Wars franchise owner Lucasfilm congratulated Marvel Studios on a job well done.

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AJ Caulfield

Alden Ehrenreich Set To Play Han Solo In Future Star Wars Movies

The fresh face behind the scruffy-looking nerf herder is here to stay. Actor Alden Ehrenreich inadvertently revealed that his role as young Han Solo in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story isn't a one-time-only thing.

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AJ Caulfield

New Solo: A Star Wars Story Character Posters Bring The Crew Together

We're just about a month out from Disney and Lucasfilm launching Solo: A Star Wars Story onto silver screens near us, and the companies have been doubling down on their promotional rampage. The latest bit of Solo marketing material came on Monday, in the form of nine new character posters.

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Ziah Grace

How The Last Jedi Changed Star Wars And No One Noticed

From shifting the focus away from dynasties to a parental revelations and the evolution of Force powers, here's a look at some of the ways The Last Jedi changed Star Wars and no one noticed.

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