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.
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.”
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.
