{"id":44982,"date":"2025-09-26T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44982\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:54:08","slug":"one-battle-after-another-begins-with-2-5m-thursday-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44982\/","title":{"rendered":"‘One Battle After Another’ Begins With $2.5M Thursday Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATED, 7:52 AM: Warner Bros<\/a> is reporting $3.1M this morning for Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>\u2018s $130M-$140M pic One Battle After Another<\/a>. That number is higher than the previews for Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> movies Killers of the Flower Moon, which opened during the actors strike sans cast promotion, but also The Revenant, which posted $2.3M in previews before its wide break in January 2016 during its second weekend (after its NY\/LA opening on Christmas Day).<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of very expensive original movies with DiCaprio, he\u2019s certainly been here before with The Revenant, which opened to $39.8M (granted, after 14 days of limited play that saw $1.5M). Revenant, with its gloomy Western wilderness setting, was a hold-your-breath moment for 20th Century Fox and New Regency executives before being nominated for 12 Oscars and winning three, one of which is DiCaprio\u2019s sole golden-guy trophy.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the way, here\u2019s DiCaprio\u2019s top five openers at the domestic box office:<\/p>\n

\n\tNow doing more in its first Thursday than One Battle After Another is the Indian gangster film They Call Him OG, which grossed an estimated $3.77M at 800 locations. Directed by Sujeeth and Ashwin Neal Mani, the pic stars Pawan Kalyan as a Mumbai mob boss who resurfaces after vanishing in the city\u2019s underworld with a mission to take out his rival crime lords.<\/p>\n

\n\tGabby\u2019s Dollhouse: The Movie, Universal and DreamWorks\u2019 feature take on the Netflix series, saw $700K on Thursday from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. in 2,650 locations. That number is on par with the previews of Sony\u2019s Harold and the Purple Crayon, which did $725K and opened to $6M in 2024. Eeeeek. Uni was expecting a number in the low- to mid-teens for this G-rated preschool IP. Net production cost for the movie featuring Kristen Wiig, Gloria Estefan and Laila Lockhart Kraner is $32M before P&A. Gabby\u2019s is a DreamWorks Animation production for Netflix. It\u2019s 77% fresh with critics.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMadelaine Petsch in \u2018The Strangers \u2014 Chapter 2\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLionsgate<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate\u2019s The Strangers \u2013 Chapter 2 grossed $630K from Thursday night\u2019s preview shows. The movie opens Friday in 2,690 theatres in what\u2019s expected to be a $6M-$7M take. That preview number is half of what Strangers \u2013 Chapter 1 did back in May 2024, which was $1.2M. That first Renny Harlin-directed horror pic starring Madelaine Petsch opened to $11.8M. This one is expected to land in the mid-single digits. Critics weren\u2019t a fan of the first movie at 21% Rotten, and they aren\u2019t fans of the sequel at 18%. Chapter 1 received a C CinemaScore.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe week\u2019s Top 5:<\/p>\n

\n\t1) Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle (Sony) 4,607 theaters, Wk $23.6M (-73%), Total $111M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t2) Him (Uni) 3,168 theaters, Wk $17M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t3) The Conjuring: Last Rites (NL\/WB) 3,413 theaters, Wk $16.3M (-54%), Total $154.5M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n

\n\t4) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Foc) 3,711 theaters, Wk $10.2M (-60%), Total $35.6M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t5) The Long Walk (LG) 2,845 theaters, Wk $9M (-45%), Total $25.4M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\tPREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros\u2019 original Leonardo DiCaprio movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another, is posting previews around $2.5M with potential for upside according to sources.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe keep hearing that advance tickets sales in cities continues to grow. <\/p>\n

\n\tTonight\u2019s estimated figure isn\u2019t far from the preview night of DiCaprio\u2019s last movie, Apple Original Films\u2019 Killers of the Flower Moon, which posted $2.6M on its first Thursday evening, turning into a $9.4M Friday and 3-day of $23.2M. Now that was during the 2023 strikes when the cast couldn\u2019t promote, not to mention that Martin Scorsese directed feature take of the bestselling novel was 3 hours and 26 minutes long. One Battle After Another is considerably shorter at 2 hours and 41 minutes (and, man, does it move at a clip). <\/p>\n

\n\tNow, Thursday previews for One Battle After Another, which started at 2PM today in 3,200 locations are under that of Quentin Tarantino\u2019s 2019 DiCaprio movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which did $5.8M off showtimes that started at 4PM. That R-rated movie morphed into a first Friday of $16.7M, and $41M 3-day, a record domestic opening for Tarantino. That movie had the added boost of an early August release date, as well as the marquee power of Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. Once Upon a Time..also had a long tail in regards to its word of mouth, blasting off with a worldwide Cannes premiere at the start of summer. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rotten Tomatoes Audience score for One Battle After Another stands at 87% which is higher than a slew of DiCaprio fan faves, i.e. The Revenant (84%), Killers of the Flower Moon (84%), Wolf of Wall Street (83%), and even Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (70%). Among Anderson movies, One Battle After Another is heads and tails higher than the helmer\u2019s last movie, 2021\u2019s Licorice Pizza (65%), as well as a point ahead of the 2x Oscar winner There Will Be Blood (86%), but under Boogie Nights and Magnolia which both stand at 89%. More updates in the AM. <\/p>\n

\n\tOne Battle After Another is expected to file in the low $20M range stateside off its $130M-$140M production cost. The movie\u2019s fate will be determined in the long run. Warners opted to skip the spotlight of the fall film festival troika after Joker: Folie a Deux ran into a buzzsaw at Venice last year. The studio began screening One Battle After Another just as press were returning from Toronto. A win this weekend for One Battle After Another is a win for original theatrical films in the streaming era. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED, 7:52 AM: Warner Bros is reporting $3.1M this morning for Paul Thomas Anderson\u2018s $130M-$140M pic One Battle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,10495,270,11549,11724,2031],"class_list":["post-44982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-movies","tag-one-battle-after-another","tag-paul-thomas-anderson","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}