Worldwide field workplace: September 26-28
| Rank | Movie (distributor) | 3-day (world) | Cume (world) | 3-day (int’l) | Cume (int’l) | Territories |
| 1 | One Battle After One other (Warner Bros) | $48.5m | $48.5m | $26.1m | $26.1m | 75 |
| 2 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Citadel (numerous) | $24.3m | $605.4m | $17.2m | $487.2m | 75 |
| 3 | The Conjuring: Final Rites (Warner Bros) | $22.3m | $435.9m | $15.4m | $274.4m | 77 |
| 4 | Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film (Common) | $14.6m | $59.5m | $8.3m | $27.9m | 36 |
| 5 | Evil Unbound (numerous) | $15.2m | $208.3m | $15.2m | $208m | 6 |
| 6 | Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc (Toho) |
$13.3m | $26m | $13.3m | $26m | 14 |
| 7 | They Name Him OG (numerous) | $10.5m | $26.8m | $9m | $21.7m | 20 |
| 8 | Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Common) | $8.4m | $77.1m | $5.1m | $38.1m | 39 |
| 9 | The Strangers: Chapter 1 (Lionsgate) | $7.2m | $7.2m | $1.3m | $1.3m | 19 |
| 10 | The Lengthy Stroll (Lionsgate) | $6.6m | $41.1m | $3.2m | $12.3m | 49 |
Credit score: Comscore. All figures are estimates.
‘One Battle After One other’ launches with $48.5m
Warner Bros appears to have one other hit on its palms with One Battle After One other, topping the North American, worldwide and international field workplace charts with the movie’s opening session.
Estimated weekend takings are $22.4m for home, $26.1m for worldwide, and thus $48.5m worldwide.
Globally, One Battle After One other has delivered the most important ever opening for a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, and it’s the most important debut for the filmmaker in North America and 68 worldwide markets together with UK/Eire, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Mexico.
In six Latin American markets, One Battle After One other is already the most important Paul Thomas Anderson movie ever.
Imax proved a powerful format for the movie with an estimated $7.5m international gross – greater than 15% of the entire. In North America, Imax delivered 21% of the entire.
For worldwide, UK/Eire and France tied with an estimated $3.4m debut, though France advantages from a five-day (Wednesday-to-Sunday) opening interval versus three days for UK.
Subsequent come Germany (an estimated $2.0m), Italy ($1.4m), Saudi Arabia and Australia (each $1.3m), and Mexico and Spain (each $1.1m).
A complete of 74 worldwide markets have opened up to now, and but to launch are South Korea, Japan, China and Turkey.
Beforehand for the filmmaker, 2007’s There Will Be Blood reached $76.4m lifetime globally in response to accessible knowledge. Boogie Nights (1997) has been tracked at $43.1m globally lifetime, with 2017’s Phantom Thread at $52.2m. Most lately, 2021’s Licorice Pizza reached $33.3m.
One Battle After One other stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti and Regina Corridor in a comedically flavoured motion thriller a few former revolutionary who seeks assist to rescue his teenage daughter after an enemy resurfaces.
The weekend noticed Warner Bros develop into the primary studio up to now to hit $4bn on the 2025 worldwide field workplace. It’s the primary time that Warner Bros has achieved this feat since pre-pandemic 2019. The studio has topped the worldwide field workplace chart for 15 weekends in 2025 up to now.
‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ delivers $19m session
Common/DreamWorks Animation’s Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film landed in North America on the weekend, and expanded from a single early worldwide market (New Zealand) to 37 international territories.
The movie – which is tailored from the Netflix animated sequence – achieved second place within the home field workplace chart with an estimated $13.7m, and pulled in an estimated $5.5m for worldwide. Cumulative field workplace is now $19.4m worldwide.
Australia and Mexico proved the strongest worldwide markets, each with an estimated $1.1m, and subsequent comes Italy ($925,000).
The remainder of the opening markets have been comparatively small, with many key territories but to launch the movie: South Korea, France, Germany, Brazil, UK/Eire, Spain and Japan.
Gabby’s Dollhouse started on Netflix in 2021, with new seasons (sometimes six or seven episodes) coming thick and quick, and the 12th season will start streaming in November. The pre-school sequence, which mixes stay motion and animation, was created by Traci Web page Johnson and Jennifer Twomey, and sees Gabby and her pals – and cats – go on adventures inside her dollhouse.
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film is govt produced by Johnson and Twomey and directed by Ryan Crego.
‘Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc’ begins enlargement as ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Citadel’ hits $600m-plus worldwide
Sony/Crunchyroll started its rollout of Japanese anime Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc into its first 13 markets (all in Asia), grossing an estimated $7.0m. The movie is now in its second week of play in Japan (through Toho), and the worldwide complete from 14 territories is $26.0m.
Among the many Sony/Crunchyroll markets, South Korea led with an estimated $3.5m, whereas Taiwan delivered $1.6m, topping the nation’s field workplace.
The movie is following the same launch trajectory to present anime hit Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Citadel – ie starting in Japan, increasing subsequent into different Asian markets, after which reaching North America and the remainder of the world.
Late October will see Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc land in North America plus additionally key markets UK/Eire, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara, the anime movie is a direct sequel to the primary season of the Chainsaw Man TV sequence (2022), and tailored from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga sequence.
Additionally for Sony/Crunchyroll (and some different distributors), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Citadel added an estimated $24.3m worldwide on the weekend, adequate for second place within the worldwide field workplace chart, and bringing the entire to $605.4m.
Infinity Citadel is now the eight-biggest movie of 2025 on the worldwide field workplace, and can subsequent overtake seventh-placed Superman ($615.6m). F1 (aka F1: The Film) and How To Practice Your Dragon additionally look practical targets for Infinity Citadel, with $626.2m and $635.0m field workplace up to now respectively.
‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ makes smooth begin
Lionsgate’s The Strangers: Chapter 2 opened in North America and 18 worldwide markets, starting with a disappointing estimated $7.2m – $5.9m for home and $1.3m for international.
In Might 2024, The Strangers: Chapter 1 opened with $11.8m in North America, plus additionally $1.7m in its first 13 worldwide markets. The movie went on to achieve $48.2m worldwide, together with $35.2m in North America.
Regardless of the title, Chapter 2 is the fourth movie in The Strangers movie franchise, which started in 2008 with Bryan Bertino’s unique. Johannes Roberts’ The Strangers: Prey At Night time adopted in 2018. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are a part of a trilogy directed by Renny Harlin, with Chapter 3 anticipated in 2026
Lionsgate provided The Strangers: Chapter 2 as counter-programming to One Battle After One other, presumably calculating {that a} respectable viewers chunk can be on the lookout for a substitute for the newest from Paul Thomas Anderson – whose field workplace has by no means matched his vital adulation. However One Battle After One other is partaking broader audiences than may need been anticipated.
‘They Name Him OG’ hits $27m
The Strangers: Chapter 2 was overwhelmed within the worldwide weekend field workplace chart by Indian crime thriller They Name Him OG, directed and written by Sujeeth (Run Raja Run), and starring Pawan Kalyan as a retired gangster who in 1993 returns to Bombay (as Mumbai was then known as) to confront a rival crime lord. The Telugu-language movie launched final Thursday (September 25), and the worldwide gross stands at $26.8m together with $5.1m in North America (together with previews final Wednesday).
