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Despite positive reviews and a promising opening weekend in August 2023 — one that knocked blockbuster “Barbie” out of the top box office slot — “Blue Beetle” quickly faded, eventually becoming the lowest-grossing film in the DC Extended Universe.

But “Blue Beetle’s” return engagement last month, a little more than a year after first hitting theaters, was a triumph for Milagro Cinemas and its founder, veteran producer Moctesuma Esparza, 75.

A predominantly Latino audience, including children in Blue Beetle costumes, came to cheer the first Latino comic book character to headline his own live-action superhero saga.

Both Mendoza and Galvez had come to see “Blue Beetle” even though they had seen it before.

Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.