13 Movies That Shocked At The Box Office In 2018

11. Solo: A Star Wars Story

Box Office: $392.9 million

And now for something a little less successful - that is to say, not at all. Though many fans and critics believed the Star Wars brand to be commercially bulletproof, the financial failure of Han Solo prequel Solo persuasively proved otherwise.

With an estimated budget of $275-300 million - factoring in those pricey Ron Howard re-shoots - Solo needed $500-600 million to break even, which it somehow didn't even come close to.

If the expectation was that Star Wars fans are basically slaves to the brand and would go see the new movie regardless of how decidedly average it looked, they were clearly deterred by the so-so marketing, abundance of negativity surrounding its troubled shoot, divisive response to The Last Jedi, competition from Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War and the mere fact that nobody really asked for a Han Solo origin story.

The greatest irony of all, though, is that Solo actually turned out pretty decent despite its tough production. Even so, more audiences paid to see the likes of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Rampage, The Grinch and Hotel Transylvania 3 than they did a freaking Star Wars movie.

Any time somebody tells you you've got a crackpot box office prediction, point them to Solo as proof that anything can happen in Hollywood.