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Ant-Man shrinks as Cocaine Bear gets high at the box office

February 27, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania might have stayed atop the U.S. box-office in it’s sophomore frame with $32.2 million, but Universal’s Cocaine Bear inflicted quite the bump with it’s own impressive opening. 

Ant-Man 3‘s 69.7% drop was the worst second-week decline for an entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, stealing that unwanted title from 2021’s Black Widow, which took a 67.8% hit, but had a global pandemic and same-day digital release to contend with. Unfortunately the hits keep on coming for Quantumania, because it also took the award for the largest drop of any superhero film opening to $100 million or more from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which tumbled 69.1% in 2016. 

As it stands Ant-Man 3 has taken its domestic tally to $167.3 million, with an additional $196.3 million internationally, for a worldwide gross that currently stands at $363.6 million. You can blame the fall-off on poor word-of-mouth, middling reviews, or even that oft-banded term ‘superhero-fatigue’, but it’s clear that a certain coked-up bear will have taken a chunk out of the Marvel money.

Universal’s Elizabeth Banks directed high-concept comedy Cocaine Bear out-performed expectations to post a debut of $23.1 million. The well-received bear on a bender caper (read our review ★★★★ here) also posted $5.3 million overseas for a budget-surpassing first weekend global tally of $28.4 million. Expect Hollywood writing rooms this Monday morning to be full of whiteboards with “Speed Turtle” or “Crack Cow” written on them. 

Elsewhere there was a notable opening for the prayer-pound, with faith-based film Jesus Revolution rising from nowhere to take $15.5 million (read our ★★ review here). 

Check out all of the noughts and ones over at BoxOfficeMojo and let us know what you spent your ticket money on this weekend by heading to our social channels @FlickeringMyth…

 

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Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, cocaine bear, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe

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