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EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed rising star Brooklynn Prince, on the heels of her new film Cocaine Bear‘s opening weekend triumph, with a current worldwide gross of $28M+ at the worldwide box office, against a production budget of roughly $30M. The R-rated horror-comedy directed for Universal by Elizabe…

UPDATE, writethru: Coming out of its second weekend, Disney/Marvel's Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania has grossed $363.6M globally. Of that, $167.3M is from domestic and $196.3M from the international box office. The sophomore overseas frame was $46.4M in 52 markets with a slighter drop than in Nort…

"'Nobody likes to watch people getting eaten by lions.” Apparently this was the response by the late Sumner Redstone during his National Amusement exhibition days after he saw a screening of the 1981 Tom Skerritt lion movie, Savage Harvest, relayed to me by an exhibition source who overheard him…

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, with Universal’s Cocaine Bear trampling its teen projections with $23.09M, and Lionsgate’s Jesus Revolution…

The title says it all. Just like Snakes on a Plane was about just that, the new horror comedy Cocaine Bear is about a 500-pound bear on a jihad after coming upon a ton of cocaine dropped into rural Georgia on a drug run gone wrong. The bear ingests the coke, and soon you have a beast roaring out of…

In an interview with the New York Times last September, actor-filmmaker Elizabeth Banks shared a piece of career advice from Lorne Michaels that’s been of enduring value to her. “Don’t do things unless you think they’ll be part of the cultural conversation,” Banks recalled the SNL boss saying. “I’ve…

Margo Martindale is one of the stars of Cocaine Bear, the dark comedy action film directed by Elizabeth Banks. The story is based on true events from 1985 when an American black bear ingested a duffel bag full of cocaine. Martindale is in disbelief she is even in the movie sharing with EW, “I never…

Earlier this week, social media lit up as users excitedly uploaded the poster for the Elizabeth Banks-directed Cocaine Bear, imagining what a movie with that title might be like. They got some idea today when Universal dropped the bonkers first trailer for the film “inspired by the true story of a drug…

Elizabeth Banks’ next movie as a director, Cocaine Bear, will be hitting theaters on February 24, 2023, Universal said Monday. The film stars Keri Russell (The Americans), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Ray Liotta (The Many Saints of Newark), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight O…

EXCLUSIVE: In her second directorial feature for Universal, Elizabeth Banks has set quite the cast, tapping Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich and Jesse Tyler Ferguson to star in Cocaine Bear. Production is set to begin August 23 in Ireland. Jimmy Warden wrote the script that's described as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks, who most recently directed the latest Charlie's Angels installment, has signed on to direct Cocaine Bear for Universal Pictures. Written by Jimmy Warden, the film is described as a character-driven thriller inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985. Banks and Max Handelman…