One Battle After One other is actually a milestone in Paul Thomas Anderson’s profession. The near-universally critically acclaimed political motion thriller is the director’s highest-grossing film up to now, and may win him an Oscar after an extended profession of many lauded movies. Nonetheless, One Battle After One other‘s distance from PTA’s second-highest-grossing film simply received extra spectacular.
Anderson’s newest cinematic entry follows a bunch of up to date revolutionaries, a couple of of whom are former members of the vigilante group the French 75, who race to evade seize and rescue teenage Willa (Chase Infiniti), who’s being pursued by Colonel Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn). One Battle After One other‘s solid additionally contains Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, Regina Corridor, and Teyana Taylor.
The film immediately grew to become essentially the most worthwhile in Anderson’s profession, because it grossed $48 million worldwide in its opening weekend compared to Licorice Pizza‘s $32.9 million general international gross. Nonetheless, now, simply over a month after its theatrical launch, One Battle After One other has doubled Licorice Pizza‘s whole gross in home gross sales alone, reaching $66.6 million.
Whereas that is One Battle After One other‘s whole home gross to date, its worldwide gross up to now is $185.2 million. However regardless of its simple success, One Battle After One other was nonetheless projected to lose Warner Bros. $100 million as of mid-October. The film’s price range is reported to be $130 million, with an extra $70 million spent on promotional supplies.
Films sometimes must gross 2.5x their price range to interrupt even, that means One Battle After One other would wish to earn not less than $300 million to technically be worthwhile. After a month in theaters, with different doable 2026 Oscar nominees releasing quickly to compete with it, Anderson’s entry is not prone to gross the extra huge quantities of cash wanted to interrupt even.
One Battle After One other is in an fascinating place as it’s broadly considered one of many standouts of the director’s profession and is a severe risk to win Finest Image. Its rave critiques show that it’s profitable, though it is extremely unlikely to be so commercially. There’s a clear separation between sorts of success on this case, and Warner Bros. execs could also be pondering if the value tag was well worth the acclaim.
Warner Bros. general was coming off a record-breaking summer time on the field workplace when One Battle After One other was launched, and had loads of business success elsewhere, with movies that had been additionally usually nicely reviewed. In one other case examine in regards to the pitfalls of a excessive price range, One Battle After One other must be happy with breaking all of the information, even when that does not really earn any cash.
- Launch Date
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September 26, 2025
- Runtime
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162 minutes
- Producers
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Adam Somner