US box office: disappointment for Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio

If a battle starts in 1st place in the ranking, its score is below expectations. Despite its rave reviews, the film will find it difficult to be profitable.

Paul Thomas Anderson signs a shattering return with his action comedy One battle after another.

Led by a thunderous Leonardo DiCaprio in ex-hunted revolutionary, the film heads the North American box office after a first weekend at $ 22 million on 3634 screens. Internationally, the film adds $ 26.1 million for a global total that slowly approaches $ 50 million.

Half-tone figures for an extraordinary project: a duration of almost three hours and a ban on under 17s across the Atlantic undoubtedly do not create the conditions for a huge popular success. Except that One battle after another cost dear: a production budget exceeding $ 130 million (and $ 70 million in marketing). To hope for the balance in theaters, it would be necessary to approach the $ 300 million in global recipes. Suffice to say that word of mouth will be decisive. The objective seems complicated, but the feature still has a major asset: exceptional criticism and inflamed returns, which could allow One battle after another to set up over time.

And then it is – anyway – the best start of PTA’s career, which goes Boogie Nights has Licorice Pizza. So far, his biggest success in theaters is called There will be blood In 2007, with 75 million dollars in revenue worldwide. We already know that this record will be broken by One battle after another. It remains to be seen which total will be able to hang King Leo …

Behind, it’s the film Gabby and the Magic Housetaken from the famous Netflix series for children, which takes a solid second place with $ 13.5 million (3,500 rooms).

In third position, Demon Slayer Has dropped after a canon launch, but the animated feature film already cumulation already $ 120 million in the USA: the biggest success in Japanese animation in history in the United States. The infinite fortress After the 700 million worldwide.

Finally, we will note that Conjuring: judgment time holds the shock ($ 6.9 million this weekend and continues to break the records of his own franchise: US $ 161.5 million and already $ 435 million in the world, the biggest score in the saga. Another horror film, The Strangers: Chapter 2completes the top 5 with $ 5.9 million (2,650 cinemas), well below the previous opus ($ 12 million in 2024, $ 48 million in the end). But with a budget limited to $ 8.5 million, the risk remains minimal.