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Tom Cruise didn't even have to attend the 2023 Oscars to be one of the most talked about stars last night, as the Top Gun actor skipped the star-studded ceremony despite his hit film being in with a chance of winning six awards

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Comedy-horror Cocaine Bear has an undoubtedly bizarre premise. But the movie is actually loosely based on real-life events.

Sunday studio estimates say the gonzo R-rated horror comedy “Cocaine Bear” sniffed up $23.1 million in its opening weekend, while Marvel's “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was quickly dwarfed in its second weekend

Elizabeth Banks’s playfully anarchic creature-feature about a rampaging beast high on drugs is as daft as it is entertaining

Cocaine Bear's premise is pretty self-explanatory, but it's actually based on true events. So what really happened in a Georgia forest in the 1980s?

Besides one action sequence and a fake bear that out-acts its human costars, the film fails its amusing title

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In September 1985, Tennessee authorities discovered the body of Andrew Carter Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned drug smuggler who had fallen to his death from a plane. The bags full of cocaine he was transporting into the country took longer to recover. By the time the illicit cargo…