SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Lead Alden Ehrenreich Believes Box Office Coverage Of The Movie Was Misleading

I thought it was a fun movie, but ultimately we really didn’t need to know how Han Solo became Han!

A Star Wars movie that only makes 392 million on a 300 million budget is a huge flop. It lost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Well the coverage was wrong as in everything gets blended together. Solo did not flop in the United States. It made more money than Venom did in the US. And that movie was a huge success. It made almost as much as Mission Impossible Fallout in the US and that movie was a huge success. The US numbers weren’t as good as we expect for a Star Wars movie but it did not flop in US, it did plenty good. But it absolutely fell flat on it’s face internationally. Complete flop. Absurdly flopped. Now there are reasons for this but it did. Big time. Add to that it’s hugely inflated budget because of being filmed twice and you get the stinkorama it is.

In some way yes and no. Financially for the studio it was a flop. The film cost $300 million to make and only made $393.2 million at the box office. For the studio to make a profit the film usually has to take 2-3 times its total budget. As percentage of takings are also taken by others such as the cinemas promoters and so forth. Usually the studio and its partners takes about 60% of cinema ticket prices for the first 2 weeks on the film then it goes down to 40% after that. If they agree to cinemas doing advance screenings it is usually on the condition the studio and its partners taking about 80-90% of the ticket price on advance screenings. The distributor usually gets about 10% of the ticket price. Promoters get a smaller percentage. The studio gets the rest. With some studios like Disney, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate and Paramount they distribute their own films, so they they only pay the promoter of the film. But even then if a studio makes a profit on the film they usually have to pay cast members and crew a share of the profits. Some of the cast and crew have it in their contracts they take a percentage of the ticket sales. Christopher Nolan for instance had it in his contract with TENET. Tom Cruise and Robert Downey JR have it in all their films. So financially it was a flop. But in the sense that it made close to $400 million at the box office then yes. Most Star Trek films if they take $400 million at the box office are considered a success. Same with a lot of films. But this is done because they are done on smaller budgets and so their fore take less money to be a financial success.