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- Sinner to face Medvedev in Shanghai Masters quarter-finals
- US weighs Google breakup in landmark trial
- Record-breaking Root guides England to 232-2 in reply to Pakistan's 556
- Japan PM dissolves parliament for 'honeymoon' snap election
- Chinese stocks tumble on stimulus upset, Asia tracks Wall St higher
- 7-Eleven owner confirms new takeover offer from Couche-Tard
- Goodbye Tito? Tomb at risk as Serbs argue over Yugoslav legacy
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- Sinner avoids Shanghai deja vu with assured Shelton win
- Pyongyang to 'permanently' shut border with South Korea
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- No children left on Greece's famed but emptying island
- Nepali becomes youngest to climb world's 8,000m peaks
- Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: study
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- Padres edge Dodgers, Mets on the brink
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- Boeing suspends negotiations with striking workers
- 7-Eleven owner's shares spike on report of new buyout offer
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- Three million UK children living below poverty line: study
- China's Jia brings film spanning love, change over decades to Busan
- Paying out disaster relief before climate catastrophe strikes
- Chinese shares drop on stimulus upset, Asia tracks Wall St higher
- SE Asian summit seeks progress on Myanmar civil war
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- Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded as wars rage
- Pacific island nations swamped by global drug trade
- AI-aided research, new materials eyed for Nobel Chemistry Prize
- Mozambique elects new president in tense vote
- The US economy is solid: Why are voters gloomy?
- Balkan summit to rally support for struggling Ukraine
- New stadium gives Real Madrid a headache
- Alonso, Manaea shine as 'Miracle Mets' blitz Phillies
- Harris, Trump trade blows in US election media blitz
- Harry's Bar in Paris drinks to US straw-poll centenary
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- Afghan man arrested for plotting US election day attack
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- Japan PM to dissolve parliament for 'honeymoon' snap election
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'Ant-Man' stumbles but still tops N.America box office
Disney's "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" fell off a cliff but managed to land on all six feet this weekend, topping the North American box office with an estimated $32.2 million in ticket sales.
Industry analyst Exhibitor Relations said the latest Marvel superhero film was down a sharp 70 percent from its strong opening weekend but still topped the field. Paul Rudd plays the size-changing title ant and alter ego Scott Lang, while Evangeline Lilly is heiress Hope van Dyne and the Wasp.
In second, at $23.1 million, was a new horror comedy with a different sort of star: a drug-crazed bear. Universal's "Cocaine Bear" is based, if loosely, on the true story of a black bear that finds a large cache of lost cocaine in the Tennessee woods -- and eats it.
Chaos, gore and wackiness ensue in a movie that also stars Keri Russell of "Felicity" fame. Exhibitor Relations playfully calls the film "Jaws in the Woods on Crack."
In third place was another new release, Lionsgate's "Jesus Revolution," at $15.5 million. Joel Courtney and Kelsey Grammer star in the story of the Jesus movement in California in the 1960s.
"This is a very good opening for a Christian drama," said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. "Critics are generally lukewarm about these movies, but when they work, audiences are enthusiastic, and 'Jesus Revolution' is working."
Fourth spot went to 20th Century's blockbuster "Avatar: The Way of Water," adding a respectable $4.7 million in its 11th week to a global total now over $2.26 billion.
And in fifth, also showing durability in its 10th week in theaters, was Universal's family-oriented "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish," at $4.1 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
"Magic Mike's Last Dance" ($3 million)
"Knock at the Cabin" ($1.9 million)
"80 for Brady" ($1.8 million)
"Missing" ($1 million)
"A Man Called Otto" ($850,000)
D.Moore--AMWN