Box Office: 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Looks to Edge Past $100 Million For Holiday Weekend

REUTERS - Estimates for "Solo: A Star Wars Story" are continuing to fly low. Disney and Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" prequel is now looking to make $101 million in North America during its four-day holiday weekend debut. The Han Solo origin film's three-day estimate currently hovers around $83 million. Tracking earlier this week suggested "Solo" would lift off with $130 million to $150 million. The film, directed by Ron Howard, follows Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo, who befriends his future co-pilot and Wookie companion Chewbacca, and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover). Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Paul Bettany, Joonas Suotamo, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge round out the cast. Early estimates predicted "Solo" could secure the best Memorial Day weekend opening, but it looks like "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" will continue to hold the crown with its $139.8 million in 2007. "Solo," the second standalone "Star Wars" anthology film, has fallen far behind 2016's "Rogue One," which landed a three-day weekend opening of $155 million. The most recent installment in the franchise "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" opened less than six months ago. The second film in "Star Wars'" sequel trilogy debuted with $220 million domestically. With "Solo" as the only new release of the weekend, the rest of the North American box office will be bolstered by a number of holdovers.