Why did nu metal die? It was pretty short lived as a genre. Are any of those bands even still playing?

really? It was always sort of irrelevant to me. None of those bands or that whole thing had anything like as big an impact as the grunge thing though, right?

nah. It was never that big, but it hung around for a long time.

Box office through 31July:

$212,783,601 domestic
$177,380,903 foreign

New Mission impossible opening weekend? 67 million. ‘Box office smash!’
Solo opening weekend? 80 million ‘it’s a catastrophe!’

Go figure.

Fallout has legs. It’s already made half as much as Solo in its first week. It’s going to well outgross it by the end of its run. And it cost less. And it isn’t an installment of (what at least used to be) the most popular franchise on the planet. Solo making under $400 million worldwide is pretty shocking. Disney fucked up to an epic degree.

I'm with you until that final sentence.

KEEP LAPPIN UP THAT MOUSE CUM BOIIIII!!!!!!!!!

I dunno. They knew what they were doing. They owned everything it came out against including avengers and except deadpool. I don’t get the reasoning behind it but there was one. It’s not like all the executive heads of departments at Disney suddenly went oh fuck! We put them all out at the same time!

That few weeks was the most populated Disney output I can remember. I’d say they wanted to see how much their franchises actually do cannibalise each other if set against each other.

They ‘lost’ 500 million on Solo? Maybe. Are they bothered? Doubtful. If it had been a Christmas release it would have undoubtedly done around a billion.

Like I said I’d say it was an experiment.

If you buy that they didn’t want Solo interfering with Mary poppins at the box office, read my post again

Keeping SOLO at Memorial Day or moving to XMas still gives you the same mediocre movie. Maybe it makes a few extra bucks during the holiday season but you wouldn't get a better film.

do not go against the all-knowing arbiter of star wars