Solo: A Star Wars Story opening weekend underwhelms

Just five months after the last Star Wars film had been released, Solo: A Star Wars Story premiered in cinemas this weekend. However, the second anthology film falls far short of monetary expectations in its opening weekend. Although the film earned a typically rather decent $83 million in the USA in its first weekend, its preceding "Star Wars Story" Rogue One earned $155 million on the first weekend, while Episode VII generated a whopping $247 million and episode VIII an equally stellar $220 million. Things are even more dire outside of the American box office. Outside the United States it took in just $65 million. This means that the film generated a total of $148 million dollars in cinemas revenues worldwide.