Director Paul Thomas Anderson scored the very best North American opening weekend of his profession as One Battle After One other delivered one other primary debut for Warner Bros on an estimated $22.4m.
The Oscar-tipped motion journey earned an A CinemaScore and opened in 3,634 areas. The reported $130m value signifies there may be some technique to go till it breaks even above $200m worldwide – the movie earned round $26.1m internationally – nevertheless, this is a superb end result for an auteur director who has delivered a 162-minute lengthy R-rated ensemble piece.
Phrase of mouth is predicted to drive a strong second session and past as audiences discover the movie. Anderson’s highest-grossing movie so far in North America stays his 2007 drama There Will Be Blood, which completed on $40.2m. For Leonardo DiCaprio, that is beneath the $34.5m common for the Oscar-winning star’s final 5 opening weekends, however the roll-out is predicted to take time.
One Battle After One other is loosely primarily based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland and sees DiCaprio lead the up to date story as a former revolutionary who reconnects together with his outdated compadres when an obsessive colonel resurfaces and goes after his daughter. Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Corridor, and Chase Infiniti spherical out the important thing solid.
It shot on VistaVision and there are stated to be solely 4 venues on the earth outfitted to exhibit the widescreen format – three within the US and the Odeon Luxe Leicester Sq. in London. Accordingly, it over-indexed in Imax, incomes roughly $4.6m from 412 screens in North America to assert 21% of the general weekend. 9 areas offered the movie in Imax’s 1570 format.
Common’s children-friendly Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film primarily based on the Netflix youngsters’s sequence arrived in second place on $13.7m from 3,500 websites, and Demon Slayer: Infinity Citadel from Sony/Crunchyroll ranked third on $7.1m for a $118.2m tally after three weekends. Lionsgate opened horror The Strangers: Chapter 2 in fifth place on $5.9m from 2,690 websites – significantly behind Chapter 1’s $11.8m debut in 2024 en path to $35m.
In its second weekend, Sony’s acquisition A Large Daring Stunning Journey with Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell fell 62% to settle in tenth place on $1.3m for a $5.9m working whole.
Sony Photos Classics launched Scarlett Johnasson’s Cannes Un Sure Regard drama Eleanor The Nice starring June Squibb. It arrived on $935,577 on 892 screens.
