‘Cocaine Bear’ Snorts $2M In Thursday Previews – Box Office
deadline.comUniversal’s R-rated Elizabeth Banks campy genre pic Cocaine Bear lifted $2M last night from previews at 3,000 theaters that began at 5PM.
The $30M-budgeted movie, in a weekend that will easily be dominated by Disney/Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania with an estimated $40M (-62%), is set to do in the high teens pulling in guys (62% last night) and the 18-34 crowd (who showed up at 72%) at 3,534 theaters.
Any overindexing will be a surprise. The pic already has alright exits with 82% from Rotten Tomatoes’ audiences and 4 stars on ComScore and Screen Engine’s PostTrak and 72% fresh from critics.
Uni/Blumhouse’s winter horror hit M3GAN was 94% certified fresh from Rotten Tomatoes critics, 78% with the aggregator site’s audiences, a B CinemaScore and 3 1/2 stars on PostTrak.
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