Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Donald Glover hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time last night and appeared in nearly every sketch. His monologue revolved around his pre-fame auditions for the show. The Star Wars highlight was his turn in ‘Lando’s Summit’, which points out how few black people there are in the franchise (and, by extension, on Saturday Night Live itself).
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Solo ticket presales are doing well. Fandango (via Deadline) reports that the film sold more tickets in its first 24 hours than Black Panther. It’s second only to Avengers: Infinity War. Not bad for a movie “no one asked for.”
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Lucasfilm has put a scene from Solo up on Youtube. It’s an expansion of the “190-years-old” bit we’ve seen in some of the promotional spots.
Remember the nifty Lando dining set we were all swooning over? Well, it’s finally up for order -ala carte – at ThinkGeek. You can get the Lando Salad Plate Set ($19.99), Lando Highball Glass ($7.99 each), Lando Dinner Plate Set ($34.99), Lando Bottle Stopper ($9.99) and the Han Highball Glass ($7.99 each).
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There was no official pre-announcement and little fanfare, but U.S. Solo tickets are now on sale – or should be shortly, depending on your theater/chain. (Still waiting, local chain.)
The movie is tracking for a big debut – not The Force Awakens big, mind, but the predictions have it at a quite respectable $160 million opening weekend. That means it could easily beat Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($139.8M) to set a new Memorial Day record – or even outpace Rogue One’s $155.1M.
The movie is set for a world premiere May 10 in Los Angeles and an out-of-contention screening at the Cannes Film Festival before it officially debuts on May 25.
In the meantime, here’s a new commercial:
Lucasfilm and Force for Change are launching Roar For Change, their latest initiative for Solo. Share your Chewie roar on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #RoarForChange, and Force for Change will donate $1 to UNICEF USA, for up to $1 million.
Solo director Ron Howard is all over today’s new The Star Wars Show, talking about the film and helping the crew out with an Arrested Development spoof.
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We saw some illicit theater videos of this earlier, but here’s Donald Glover’s tour of Lando Calrissian’s Millennium Falcon from Solo, all nice and official-like.
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Lucasfilm dropped a new Solo featurette on us this afternoon, giving us a lot of new looks at the film – particularly Corellia, Mimban and the sabacc game. (Plus more from his first meeting with Chewbacca!) There’s also talk from Ron Howard, Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke and Lawrence Kasdan.
Another Solo commercial has arrived. This time: A look at Qi’ra in Lando’s cape closet!
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