‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’ Sees Worst Second-Week Decline In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania won the box office weekend, grossing $32.2 million domestically, but is looking at some stiff competition from Elizabeth Banks’ horror comedy Cocaine Bear.

The Ant-Man threequel opened at $120.4 million over the four-day President’s Day weekend but has since experienced a 69.7 percent drop in North America, the worst decline ever for an MCU film. Overseas, Ant-Man 3 earned $46.4 million over the weekend for global total of $363.6 million. The film has suffered from poor word-of-mouth reviews by Marvel fans, although the new villain Kang the Conqueror, played by Jonathan Majors, has received several accolades.

Additionally, Quantumania now holds the worst second-weekend drop of any superhero film opening to $100 million or more, bombing worse than DC’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (69.1%) and last year’s Thor: Love and Thunder (67.7%). The final Harry Potter installment tops the list of biggest second-weekend drops with a decline of 72 percent.

Heading into the weekend, Cocaine Bear was tracking to open at about $15 million and instead grossed $23.2 million domestically and an additional $5.3 million internationally. Although only receiving a B- CinemaScore, the genre pic about a drug smuggling operation gone wrong seems to have overtaken the young adult market.

In addition to Cocaine Bear, Lionsgate’s Jesus Revolution also opened above expectations. The faith-based feature centering around the Christian revivalist movement that swept America in the 70s debuted at $15.5 million.

Here are the weekend’s numbers:

1. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – Gross: $31,964,803 / Total Gross: $167,079,387
2. Cocaine Bear (first week) –  Gross: $23,260,790 / Total Gross: $23,260,790 
3. Jesus Revolution (first week) – Gross: $15,802,615 / Total Gross: $15,802,615
4. Avatar: The Way of Water – Gross: $4,860,257 / Total Gross: $665,544,119
5. Puss in Boots – Gross: $4,119,260 / Total Gross: $176,430,325
6. Magic Mike’s Last Dance – Gross: $2,856,601 / Total Gross: $23,136,191
7. 80 for Brady – Gross: $1,901,409 / Total Gross: $36,518,690
8. Knock at the Cabin – Gross: $1,870,895 / Total Gross: $33,904,100
9. Missing – Gross: $1,018,81 / Total Gross: $31,427,739
10. A Man Called Otto – Gross: $851,568 / Total Gross: $62,283,028