‘Quantumania’ Still Worst Drop For MCU Title, ‘Cocaine Bear’ Real High With $23M & ‘Jesus Revolution’ Raising $15M+ – Sunday Box Office
SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after Saturday PM update: What did this weekend prove at the box office? It’s not just about tentpoles. The overall champs of the weekend were lower-budgeted releases, wit…
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‘Quantumania’ Still Worst Drop For MCU Title, ‘Cocaine Bear’ Real High With $23M & ‘Jesus Revolution’ Raising $15M+ – Sunday Box Office
Disney/Marvel’s official numbers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania still show the worst drop ever for a MCU title at -69, with $32.2M after an estimated $14.6M Saturday, +76%, for a running total of $167.2M.
One insider close to the film isn’t worried, telling us, “Marvel takes something away from each movie including Black Panther, including Avengers. I can say we’re incredibly proud of the film, Jonathan Majors does a fantastic job as Kang. It’s the movie we wanted to make. Box office is what it is. But it’s not going to stop people from going back to the theaters.”
The overall champs of the weekend were lower-budgeted releases, with Universal’s Cocaine Bear trampling its teen projections with $23.09M, and Lionsgate’s Jesus Revolution turning water into cash with $15.5M after being initially forecast in the $6M-$7M range.
However, both movies had something that propelled audiences: They had sticky titles. It doesn’t get much better than Cocaine Bear and Jesus in your movie titles when it comes to creating want-to-see marketing.
Said Universal Domestic Distribution chief Jim Orr, “This is a tremendous debut for Cocaine Bear, an outrageous comedy so well-crafted by director Elizabeth Banks. Audiences across North America were eager to see this original, hysterical film that continues what is shaping up to be a very good year at the domestic box office.”
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the huge drop for Ant Man is not surprising, the reviews were bad and even the audience score was below the MCU average
on the other hand Cocaine Bear did pretty well, is doing so well that the director is considering doing a sequel about the "Cocaine Shark"
unlike the bear the shark is just a fictional character, it was inspired by this news
Enough cocaine to supply New Zealand for 30 years found floating in Pacific Ocean
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/08/enough-cocaine-supply-new-zealand-30-years-found-floating-pacific/ Enough cocaine to supply New Zealand for 30 years found floating in Pacific Ocean Enough cocaine to supply New Zealand for 30 years has been found by police in bundles...
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also off topic because this is being done by a different studio but there is a "Meth Gator" movie in the works
the next MCU?
pretty surprising ‘Jesus Revolution’ did so well, you would think that after the mess of "Jesus Reloaded" there wouldn't be any interest for a sequel
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