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Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear (sometimes spelled Escobear) [2] [3] or Cokey the Bear, [4] was a 175-pound (79-kilogram) female American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985. The cocaine had been dropped by a group of drug smugglers in the wilderness in Tennessee, United States.
Cocaine Bear grossed $64.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $25.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $90 million. [4] [5] In the United States and Canada, Cocaine Bear was released alongside Jesus Revolution and was initially projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,534 theaters in its opening weekend. [3]
Cocaine Bear: 1985: A 175-kilogram (386 lb) American black bear died in Georgia in 1985 after overdosing on cocaine. The cocaine had been dumped from an airplane piloted by Andrew C. Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned convicted drug smuggler. [13] It inspired the 2023 film Cocaine Bear. [14] Deer 14 August 1987
The beginning of episode one features a flashback to 1983 in which a man falls to his death, parachute still attached, with bricks of cocaine scattered around his body. The bag that had carried the cocaine becomes the focus of a mystery roughly 30 years later. The story also inspired the film Cocaine Bear, released in February 2023. [11]
Cocaine Bear will be Banks’ third feature after last directing Charlie’s Angels in 2019 and Pitch Perfect 3 in 2015. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Finance.
Cocaine Bear (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2023 film of the same name directed by Elizabeth Banks.Featuring original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh, whom previously collaborated with Banks on Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), the film also marked Mothersbaugh's first score for a live action film since Holmes & Watson (2018).
Cocaine Bear was an 175-lb eastern black bear who was notable for being found having ingested 77 lb (35 kg) of cocaine worth $14 million USD in Georgia's Chattahoochee - Oconee National Forest. Its body is on display in Kentucky.
Liotta appeared in Cocaine Bear, a thriller film based on the true story of an American black bear that ingested a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985. The movie, released in theaters in February 2023, is directed by Elizabeth Banks and traces the aftermath of a drug runner's cocaine disappearing in a plane crash and being devoured by a bear.