Los Angeles, United States, March 16, 2025 (AFP) - 'Novocaine' wins painful weekend for N.America box office

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"Novocaine," an action-comedy starring Jack Quaid as a banker who cannot feel pain, topped the North American box office in its debut weekend, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday, but ticket sales overall were brutally slow. The Paramount film took in an estimated $8.7 million from Friday to Sunday -- in one of the lowest-grossing debuts ever to take the top spot, at least since the uber-lows of the pandemic, according to Variety......

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