{"id":158037,"date":"2025-09-24T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158037\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:57:07","slug":"one-battle-after-another-eyes-50m-global-opening-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158037\/","title":{"rendered":"‘One Battle After Another’ Eyes $50M Global Opening at Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFinally, Warner Bros<\/a>\u2018 audacious $140 million swing, Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>\u2018s One Battle After Another<\/a>, opens this weekend. It is expected to reach a $20 million-$25 million domestic take and another $25M abroad for a $50M worldwide debut on the high end.<\/p>\n

\n\tShould the movie hit those numbers, or even if, God forbid, the movie\u2019s domestic start is in the high teens, it will still rep Anderson\u2019s biggest opening ever at the box office, even on a global basis. The 11-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker has typically had his canon platformed; the best U.S.\/domestic weekend ever for an Anderson movie was 2009\u2019s There Will Be Blood, which did $4.8M in its fifth session at 855 theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tEverything about this movie has been bold, from its notoriety as the biggest budget for Anderson movie to its shoot in VistaVision and skipping the fall film festival troika for an awards-season launch. Still, it is rallying a 98% fresh critics score on Rotten Tomatoes in what has been arguably the most hotly buzzed title<\/a> for Oscar season. For Warner Bros, the DiCaprio movie is a marathon, not a sprint. Props here to the studio at least for making a big-budget movie in the state of California, particularly on the Pearblossom Highway outside L.A.<\/p>\n

\n\tA box office win here will continue to underscore the brilliance of the water tower studio with original fare this year post Weapons post Sinners and Weapons. If it\u2019s a miss, there isn\u2019t any crying over spilt milk. The Warner Bros. feature slate will still be profitable for calendar year 2025, and can withstand the impact should One Battle After Another come up short in its theatrical window. For the Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy motion picture administration, the Anderson-DiCaprio socio politico action movie was a gamble worth taking. When it comes to getting in business with an auteur and DiCaprio, One Battle After Another\u2018s budget is lower than the actor\u2019s previous Martin Scorsese movie, Killers of the Flower Moon at $200M, and it\u2019s right around the Oscar winning actor\u2019s western, The Revenant at $135M. Not to mention, One Battle After Another was bought at auction. If Warners didn\u2019t buy the movie at this level, then another studio or streamer would have. <\/p>\n

\n\tNo matter where One Battle After Another settles, it\u2019s primed to be Anderson\u2019s highest grossing movie ever, even if it\u2019s slow out of the gates, overtaking 2007\u2019s period drama There Will Be Blood which made $40.2M domestic, $76.4M worldwide. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhat One Battle After Another has going for it aside from the Anderson devotees is DiCaprio, DiCaprio, DiCaprio, who is out in full force doing interviews at red carpet premieres, the Kelsey Brothers podcast and sitting down with Jimmy Fallon, the first time the actor has sat down at The Tonight Show since 2006 when Jay Leno was hosting. One of the reasons why the movie was greenlit at its production cost is because the actor has the tendency to deliver huge openings for the auteurs he works with (i.e. Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Alejandro I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, Baz Luhrmann), of late that is. The opening craved here, and indicative of the movie\u2019s previous early August date (before Weapons took it over) was $40M, on par with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer for One Battle After Another dropped in late March with extended footage show at CinemaCon in April. Trailers were splashed all over NFL in addition to being attached on big movies like Warner Bros\u2019 Superman. But the best marketing tool for One Battle After Another aside from DiCaprio is the movie itself, and those who watch can\u2019t say that 2 hour 41 minute running time feature is snooze, rather the pic is an adrenaline rush. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s quite a feat that thanks to Scorsese and DiCarpio\u2019s names alone, 2023\u2019s Killers of the Flower Moon opened to $23.2M, saddled with a 3 hours and 26 minutes running time \u2014 and that\u2019s when the actors strike prevented the cast from doing any kind of PR. In PostTrak exits, 53% came because it was a Scorsese movie, while 34% bought tickets for DiCaprio. The expectation is that One Battle After Another has more going for it. DiCaprio\u2019s recent movies, Killers of the Flower Moon and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, received an A- and B respectively. <\/p>\n

\n\tNow, the biggest battle for the movie remains its liberal leaning tone, making any play in the heartland and red zone areas tricky. Some will argue that the movie is really about Sean Penn\u2019s military antagonist who chases down DiCarpio\u2019s dormant 1980s rebel rouser. However, One Battle After Another is a movie about an anarchist against \u2018the man\u2019 in a search for his daughter. It couldn\u2019t be a more relevant film speaking truths to the current MAGA-leaning power. The movie\u2019s opening sequence on an ICE holding facility is so chilling, it feels like Anderson shot it last week. <\/p>\n

\n\tStateside we understand that advance tickets sales for One Battle After Another are ahead of Killers of the Flower Moon with sales solid in New York and Los Angeles, and climbing in other major cities. Stateside previews begin Thursday at 2PM at 3,200 sites, expanding to 3,500 theaters by Friday. Males under and over 25 are the best in first choice. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie is releasing in all major offshore markets, in total 17,000 global screens, with Japan, Korea and Turkey going later. At the international box office, One Battle After Another is expected to play like a Tarantino title, which means that France should be one of the biggest proponents. In terms of the foreign push, DiCarpio and crew attended a fan event in Mexico for the pic, as well as the London premiere. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso opening this weekend is Universal\/DreamWorks\u2019 big screen take of the Netflix preschool series, Gabby\u2019s Dollhouse which is eyeing $13M-$15M at 3,500 theatres. The live-action\/animated hybrid pic stars Kristen Wiig, Gloria Estefan and Laila Lockhart Kraner is G-rated. Blurb: Gabby (Lockhart Kraner, reprising her role from the series) heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi (Estefan) to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco. But when Gabby\u2019s dollhouse, her most prized possession, ends up in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera (Wiig), Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back together and save the dollhouse before it\u2019s too late. Stateside previews are at 2PM. Girls under 12 and moms are making a date for this. <\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate has the horror sequel Strangers: Chapter 2 at 2,650 locations starring Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso and Amy Horvath with an expected $6-7M start. \u00a0In the Renny Harlin directed sequel, a couple\u2019s vehicle breaks down on the final day of their cross country road trip, forcing them to take refuge in a remote Airbnb. As night falls, three masked strangers terrorize them until dawn. Strangers: Chapter 1 opened to $11.8M and legged out to $35M+ domestic. The previous three Strangers movies count over $161M at the global box office. Men over 25 has the most first choice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finally, Warner Bros\u2018 audacious $140 million swing, Paul Thomas Anderson\u2018s One Battle After Another, opens this weekend. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,28274,2839,13448,34572,56,54,55,18199],"class_list":["post-158037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-movies","tag-one-battle-after-another","tag-paul-thomas-anderson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}