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Thanks to the kind folks at DK Publishing, I’ve got the official guide to Solo: A Star Wars Story in hand, and I’m starting the first of my deep dives […]
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In its third weekend, Solo: A Star Wars Story has been knocked out of the top spot in the box office by Ocean’s 8, which turned out to have a […]
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We’re still in pre-production for Star Wars: Episode IX, and the details are still very hush-hush. But there’s been a change in the working title of the movie, and it […]
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There are some folks who would have you believe that half of Star Wars fans thought The Last Jedi was the worst offense ever committed against the franchise. And those […]
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There was a time when making nearly $265 million in 10 days would have been considered remarkable! Not so anymore, considering the budget that Solo: A Star Wars Story had […]
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Okay, once more with feeling. The notion of “brand fatigue” can express itself in different ways. I took a very informal poll in a few Star-Wars-focused Facebook groups where it […]
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The first three new Star Wars movies were about 50/50 in terms of their North American box office versus their non-North-American box office. Solo: A Star Wars Story is not […]
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Yeah, yeah, Thor: Ragnarok came out in November, and Black Panther came out in February, and Avengers: Infinity War came out in April, and they were all boffo at the […]
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While we wait to see how Solo: A Star Wars Story does at the box office in its second weekend, I thought I’d take a deeper look at the idea […]
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Back in early May, I did an episode covering what Lucasfilm did to celebrate May the 4th (Star Wars Day). One of those things was to release a commercial that, […]