NEW YORK (AP) — The gonzo R-rated horror comedy “Cocaine Bear" sniffed up $23.1 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while Marvel's “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” shrank unusually quickly in its second weekend.

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Playing into the gonzo humor of the situation and the character, Daddario and castmates and more make for a wild ride of a midnight thriller that sparks a bit of madness into the home invasion genre.

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That is the audience Wanzer seeks as he looks to leverage his popularity into a “gonzo media” collective.

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The studio and Thalberg took a gonzo troupe of no-holds-barred comics and reduced them to eccentric do-gooders in subpar musical “comedies” that pandered to MGM’s “respectable” audiences.

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Tying these disparate projects isn’t just their director’s proclivity for the gonzo, but also a certain narrative economy.

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