Cocaine Bear director Elizabeth Banks presented the award for Best Visual Effects at the Oscars on Sunday with quite a copresenter: her film’s star bear. Kevin Winter / Getty Images Well, almost.

Cokie the Bear was more than ready for her close-up with Elizabeth Banks for Variety’s “Cocaine Bear” cover. However, no real bears were involved in the creation of these images.

In 1985, police found the body of former police officer Andrew Thornton in the driveway of a home in Knoxville, Tennessee, ...

The real-life taxidermied black bear that inspired the "Cocaine Bear" movie will officiate a Kentucky couple's wedding at the Fun Mall Museum in Lexington.

LEXINGTON, KY – FEBRUARY 28: Cocaine Bear aka Pablo Escobear is on display at the KYforKY Fun Mall on March 1, 2023 in Lexington Kentucky. KYforKY, a brand and souvenir shop in Lexington, has ...

A wild black bear. Not THE cocaine bear. Getty Images 2023-02-22T23:56:03Z ... "Cocaine Bear" is set to hit theaters on February 24, 2023, but until then, ...

Elizabeth Banks’s Cocaine Bear is now available to buy or rent on digital platforms like Amazon Prime, which means the movie about the bear who did cocaine is getting a whole new wave of viewers ...

When Elizabeth Banks presented the award for best visual effects, she was accompanied onstage by a person wearing a towering bear costume—a nod to her new comedic thriller, “Cocaine Bear ...