Making Leonardo DiCaprio go on New Heights worked! One Battle After Another ended the weekend at the top of the box office, with $22.4 million domestic and a global total of $48.5 million. Deadline is reporting that it’s the biggest opening for Paul Thomas Anderson in 68 overseas markets, including France, UK, Brazil, and Mexico. The film cost $130 million before marketing, meaning it will have to make over $200 mil to break even. But revolutions are marathons, not sprints. OBAA is expected to have legs, especially when awards season comes around. We’ll see what weekend 2 has to say.
Box office oracles predict OBAA will have better staying power than 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon. That film had a 60% drop-off on week 2. Part of that is because One Battle After Another can be seen in one format after another. There’s one more week of Imax showings, and way more weeks of 70MM, film, and VistaVision.
Coming in at number 2 was Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie with $13.7 million. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle added another $7.1 million to its domestic BO for $118.1 million thus far. And rounding out the top 5 are spooky sequels The Conjuring: Last Rites and The Strangers — Chapter 2 with $6.86 million and $5.9 million respectively.
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