Paul Rudd’s ‘Ant-Man’ Beats ‘Cocaine Bear’ At Box Office, Big Fall-Off

Paul Rudd‘s still king of the (ant) hill in motion pictures — vanquishing a coked-out CGI bear … however the weekend win isn’t rather what it appears, thinking about a big drop-off his flick withstood.

We’re speaking about “Ant-Man: Quantumania” — which came out recently with windfall ticket office numbers ($106 million) and which when again protected the leading area these previous 3 days with another $32.2 million in domestic ticket sales versus newbie, “Cocaine Bear.”

The silly horror-comedy, directed by Elizabeth Banks, was available in second behind PR and co. … generating $23.1 mil locally and $28.4 mil worldwide — which is respectable considering it just cost about $35M to make it. So, it makes sure to make its refund and after that some.

Not precisely the hit that “M3GAN” was for Universal — however the studio’s eliminating it recently with initial concepts and fairly low financial investment. ‘Ant-Man,’ nevertheless, took a historic plunge.

Going from $106M to $32M in simply one weekend is really the greatest dip a Marvel motion picture has actually fallen under … like, ever. As Variety kept in mind, that has to do with 69%, basically … vanquishing the previous least expensive record-holder in “Black Widow,” which was available in at a 67% drop-off in ’21.