17 hours ago, themensch said:

For a minute I read that as "most unpleasant" and thought of a few other groups, but you said "most unpleasable" and I think you might be right there.

Well, you're not completely wrong...

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/21/17886892/star-wars-release-schedule-disney-bob-iger

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I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake that I made — I take the blame — was a little too much, too fast. You can expect some slowdown, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to make films. J.J. [Abrams] is busy making [ Episode ] IX . We have creative entities, including [ Game of Thrones creators David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss, who are developing sagas of their own, which we haven’t been specific about. And we are just at the point where we’re going to start making decisions about what comes next after J.J.’s. But I think we’re going to be a little bit more careful about volume and timing. And the buck stops here on that. Bob Iger

I'd say this puts the issue of pause/slow down to bed.

Well, you have to remember Disney is also competing with itself with the Marvel films. A big chunk of the reason Solo underperformed is that it came out right on the heels of Infinity War. A lot of people had to choose theater visits, and they chose Avengers. Had Solo come out a few months later, it might well have done better financially.

18 minutes ago, ErikModi said:

Well, you have to remember Disney is also competing with itself with the Marvel films. A big chunk of the reason Solo underperformed is that it came out right on the heels of Infinity War. A lot of people had to choose theater visits, and they chose Avengers. Had Solo come out a few months later, it might well have done better financially.

My thoughts are along a similar line.

Honestly, I think Solo would have done better either as an end-of-summer or mid-fall release rather than coming out right on the heels of Avengers: Infinity War, which pretty much had a decade's worth of hype behind it from a studio that at this point can't seem to do any wrong in terms of making films that are wildly financially successful. And even then I think that film turned out to be bigger than Disney and Marvel Studios were anticipating.