The most successful of the latter group, The Da Vinci Code, made $77.1 million when it was released in May 2006, and that’s about six million less than the $83.3 million that Solo: A Star Wars Story has made in the last three days (you can check out all of the numbers in my box office report).
This wouldn’t be that big a deal if Ron Howard had spent his entire career making small independent dramas, but the truth of the matter is that he is a seasoned blockbuster director.
In 1995 it was Apollo 13 that really launched him into the world, but he’s also the guy who directed all three movies in the Dan Brown trilogy.