One thing that certainly helps Solo: A Star Wars Story’s box office prospects is that it has no direct competition, but it will be facing Deadpool 2 in its second weekend, which we’re predicting will take in $80.2 million over the four-day holiday.
While early projections have indicated that Solo: A Star Wars Story will set a new Memorial Day holiday weekend record, and we’re predicting that it will break the box office record, but not by as much as believed before.
This year, only one studio will be doing so, with Disney and LucasFilm bringing Solo: A Star Wars Story to theaters, with no other competition in wide release, a rarity for any Memorial Day or any holiday weekend, which are often times quite jam-packed with three or four tentpoles in wide release.
The Memorial Day holiday weekend is often one of the biggest box office weekends of the year, with studios often rolling out some of their biggest movies of the year.