I still think Ron Howard is a class act... and his latest interaction with fans just re-enforces my opinion.
It seems there is news saying Solo won't make money... but this seems to be more a function of the chaos around the film... than the quality of the final product... i.e. re-shoots because of changes in directors.
Solo may be the type of film that makes its money in the aftermarket, which isn't the goal of course, but its better than an outright loss all around... and I don't think thats a discredit to Howard, he may have been the person to bring the project to "break even" in the theaters and set it up for success in the aftermarket.
We predicted Solo: A Star Wars Story would earn about $30 million during its second weekend of release and it earned $29.3 million over the weekend. I’m calling that a victory. It did fall 65%, but this is a standard decline for a tentpole release after a holiday weekend. The film has $148.89 million after 10 days of release and is on pace to top $200 million domestically. Internationally it has $115.3 million, including $30.3 million this past weekend. It doesn’t open in Japan until the end of June, but once it does, it should reach $400 million worldwide. Had the film not needed extensive reshoots, this would have been enough to break even, eventually.