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‘Cocaine Bear’ Wasn’t Weekend’s High Box Office Draw, But Grossed $23.1M

The much-talked-about, R-rated horror comedy movie “Cocaine Bear” in its debut weekend brought $23.1 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

  • “Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was still No. 1 with an estimated $32.2 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, but second-weekend sales fell dropped a steep 69.7%, compared to its first week, amid bad reviews and audience scores.
  • Universal Pictures’ “Cocaine Bear,” which was made for about $35 million.]
  • The movie is based on the real story of a 175-pound black bear that died in the Georgia mountains in 1985 after eating from a duffle bag of cocaine that had fallen from a smuggler’s plane.
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