Summary
Star Warsneeds to learn from past mistakes by avoiding the franchise’s biggest box office bomb. For the most part,Star Warshas been one of the few Hollywood franchises with constant box-office success.Star Wars’box office receiptsalmost always look healthy, ranking among some of the most successful in cinematic history. Naturally, Lucasfilm will be hoping to see this success continue asupcomingStar Warsmoviesreturn the galaxy far, far away to the big screen for the first time since 2019.
Although the franchise’s success has largely been on the small screen of late andupcomingStar WarsTV showswill continue this, lightsabers and X-Wings will finally be seen in theaters once more. From theupcoming story ofThe Mandalorian & Groguto the future of the timeline being explored in Rey’s New Jedi Order movie,Star Wars’cinematic future looks bright once more. That said, recent news from Disney’s other major franchise meansStar Warswill need to learn from the one movie in the series' history which failed to replicate the box office success of its peers.
Solo Was Far Too Close To A Massive MCU Movie… & History Is Repeating
Solo Suffered Thanks To Avengers: Infinity War
The oneStar Warsmovie that did not succeed at the box office was 2018’sSolo: A Star Wars Story. While a large portion of this failure can be attributed to the extensive reshoots that reshaped the film and inflated the budget beyond $300 million, Disney made the mistake of putting the film in competition with a milestone MCU movie:Avengers: Infinity War.Soloopened in theaters on June 06, 2025, only one month afterAvengers: Infinity Warwas released worldwide.
Given thatAvengers: Infinity Waris currently the sixth-highest-grossing movie in history, it is evident thatSolofaced an uphill battle.Infinity Warwas one of the biggest cinematic events of the 2010s, meaningSolowas always going to struggle to keep up with the insane box office run the former undertook. Unfortunately for Lucasfilm, it seems as though history is repeating itself.
One of thebiggest movie reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2024was thatAvengers 5, now retitledAvengers: Doomsday,will be released in May 2026. This is the same month thatThe Mandalorian & Groguis expected to be released in theaters, repeating the history ofSologoing up againstInfinity War. With this in mind, Lucasfilm has to learn from previous mistakes.
Star Wars Has Simply Got To Move The Mandalorian & Grogu
Star Wars Cannot Compete With The Overwhelming Strength Of The MCU
Given that history is repeating itself,Star Warshas to moveThe Mandalorian& Grogufrom the May 2026 spot it currently holds.Soloproved how difficult it would be for any movie to go up against anAvengersfilm, especially one as anticipated asAvengers: Doomsday. As such,The Mandalorian & Grogu’s release date should either be moved forward to the tail end of 2025 or pushed back to December 2026.
This could even leadThe Mandalorian & Groguto be pushed back to 2027, which would celebrateStar Wars'50th anniversary…
Admittedly, the latter has stiff competition withAvatar 4andDune 3scheduled for that month. This could even leadThe Mandalorian & Groguto be pushed back to 2027, which would celebrateStar Wars'50th anniversary. Regardless of what date it picked, it is clear thatStar Warsmust learn from mistakes of the past and moveThe Mandalorian & Groguaway fromAvengers: Doomsdayto give the former the chance it deserves to succeed.
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Cast
The Mandalorian and Grogu is a Star Wars movie directed by Jon Favreau that continues Disney+’s immensely popular TV Show, The Mandalorian.
