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‘Ant-Man’ stumbles but still tops box office

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Disney’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania fell off a cliff but managed to top the North American box office with an estimated $32.2 million in ticket sales.

A scene from Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’

Industry analyst Exhibitor Relations said the latest Marvel superhero film was down a sharp 70 percent from its strong opening weekend but still topped the field. 

Paul Rudd plays the size-changing title ant and alter ego Scott Lang, while Evangeline Lilly is heiress Hope van Dyne and the Wasp.

In second, at $23.1 million, was a new horror comedy with a different sort of star: a drug-crazed bear. Universal’s Cocaine Bear is based, if loosely, on the true story of a black bear that finds a large cache of lost cocaine in the Tennessee woods – and eats it.

Chaos, gore, and wackiness ensue in a movie that also stars Keri Russell of Felicity fame. Exhibitor Relations playfully calls the film “Jaws in the Woods on Crack.”

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In third place was another new release, Lionsgate’s Jesus Revolution, at $15.5 million. Fourth spot went to 20th Century’s blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water, adding a respectable $4.7 million in its 11th week to a global total now over $2.26 billion. And in fifth, also showing durability in its 10th week in theaters, was Universal’s family-oriented Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, at $4.1 million.

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