'Solo' bombs at the box office taking in only $83 million over the weekend and $101 million by Memorial Day (DIS)

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• "Solo: A Star Wars Story" earned an estimated $83 million over three days, $101 million by Memorial Day.
• That's $29 million under original industry low-end projections for the movie.
• This marks the lowest opening for a "Star Wars" movie since 2002's "Attack of the Clones" (not counting inflation).
  
• "Solo" is the latest victim of disappointing Memorial Day weekend releases.

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It turns out "Star Wars" is not bulletproof.

The beloved franchise released its latest "A Star Wars Story" movie over Memorial Day weekend by telling the origin story of space scoundrel Han Solo, and it greatly underperformed.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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