Solo: A Star Wars Story director Ron Howard is the one to thank for making the film's shocking cameo a reality. When Howard hopped aboard Solo mid-production, the identity of the secret character hadn't been decided, but the filmmaker pushed hard to have one extra-special individual fill the role.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story features a Game of Thrones actress in its main roster (Emilia Clarke as Qi'ra), and apparently, the creatives took a page from the HBO series' secret-holding book in keeping an ultra-tight lid on the biggest cameo in the film.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story flew lower than expected at the box office this weekend, and now, director Ron Howard is addressing the situation. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, the film was projected to earn between $130 to $150 million upon launch, but only pulled in $83.3 million over the three-day weekend.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story is flying a little low at the box office. The movie opened to a disappointing $83.3 million over the three-day weekend, suggesting a $101 million four-day debut.This is severely down from initial tracking, which had the movie pegged for a $130 to $150 million debut.
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True to form, the movie is a menagerie of aliens, droids, and rebel scum, and believe it or not, a few of those characters come into play in other Star Wars stories.
Read MoreAhead of Thursday night's opening of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Disney has lifted the lid off a brand-new featurette for the film. The clip shows Alden Ehrenreich (Han Solo), Emilia Clarke (Qi'ra), Donald Glover (Lando Calrissian), and Woody Harrelson (Beckett) chatting about their outlaw characters.
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In Solo: A Star Wars Story, young Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich wasn't supposed to do a spot-on impersonation of Harrison Ford, but even still, hints of another famous actor made their way into Ehrenreich's performance. Here's how Jack Nicholson influenced the actor's performance.
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With Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover had some major shoes to fill in starring as a young Lando Calrissian, the infamous (and infamously suave) gambler originated by Billy Dee Williams. Thankfully, Williams gave Glover some sage advice ahead of playing Lando. Here's what the actor said.
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In exciting box office news, Solo: A Star Wars Story is eyeing a record-breaking $130 million-plus domestic opening over the long Memorial Day weekend. In not-as-exciting box office news, Solo is tracking for an opening that comes in lower than recent Star Wars movie releases.
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While Donald Glover may seem like the kind of guy who can do it all, Solo: A Star Wars Story presented him with an enormous feat some weren't sure he could achieve: playing a young Lando Calrissian, the character originated by Billy Dee Williams. Here's how Williams feels about Glover's performance.
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While some Star Wars auditions, like Daisy Ridley's for Rey in The Force Awakens, go swimmingly, others are super awkward. Phoebe Waller-Bridge suffered the latter fate when she auditioned for her role as Lando Calrissian's droid companion L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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While many Star Wars franchise fans have imitated Chewbacca's roars, none have fully mastered the language he speaks. Solo: A Star Wars Story actors Alden Ehrenreich and Joonas Suotamo are here to change that, explaining how to speak the Wookiee language, Shyriiwook.
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The Star Wars series' Lando Calrissian has long been known as the single sexiest figure in the movies' universe — and apparently, his passion knows no limits, baby. A recent comment from the screenwriter of Solo shed some light on the galactic gangster's love life — and it involves robots, too.
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The first reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi are here, and they are out of this world. A few lucky people got to see the film at its swanky Los Angeles premiere on Saturday night, and they for the most part have great things to say about Rian Johnson's franchise outing.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story isn't set to fly into cinemas until May 25, but a handful of lucky people got to board the Millennium Falcon and journey to the galaxy far, far away ahead of time. Those who attended Solo's world premiere have spilled their thoughts on the Ron Howard-directed standalone.
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Benicio del Toro will join the Star Wars universe soon with The Last Jedi, but like just about everything else about the Lucasfilm property, details about his character have been kept very strictly under wraps.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi will reveal the results of one of The Force Awakens' most anticipated moments, in which Rey (Daisy Ridley) finally finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) on the deserted planet of Ach-To.
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The light side of the Force is front and center in nine new posters for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The posters, released to IGN, show off stylized versions of fan favorite characters like C-3PO, R2-D2, BB-8, and, of course, a porg.
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Star Wars fans were treated to a little something extra ahead of the official release of The Last Jedi trailer on Monday.
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On Friday, Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson held an impromptu poll on his Twitter account, asking his legion of followers to correctly answer which of the franchise's films had the most wipes.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story is poised to become an intergalactic box office success. The movie's Fandango pre-sales have already doubled those of Marvel's box office juggernaut Black Panther in just the first 24 hours.
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As deep as the saga's background can get, it's also a little ridiculous at times.
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Some potential (and potentially great) Star Wars movies were rumored, discussed, started…and then disappeared.
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The original Star Wars trilogy, as it was originally released, has stood the test of time as a fantastic set of movies. The story isn't vastly complex or Oscar-fodder, it's just a great, entertaining film series. Then came the prequels. We all paid to see them...
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When it comes to Star Wars, we know prequel films don't really work out so well. While no one ever really asked to see the Muppet Babies version of Star Wars, it's happening again anyhow. But with any luck and without George Lucas to crash the ship, this new slate of movies might not be half bad.
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In all the excitement surrounding the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it's easy to forget that we know almost nothing about anyone who wasn't a character in previous films. The movie that includes a few familiar faces is also jam packed with plenty of unfamiliar ones.
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Star Wars fans love a good backstory. In the old Expanded Universe, every minor character in every scene had an elaborate and thrilling story to tell, from droids all the way down to the heartless little pig guys who worked the freezing chambers on Bespin.
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