'One Battle After Another' is Paul Thomas Anderson's first film to surpass $100 million worldwide

The crime and action thriller One Battle After Another of Paul Thomas Anderson and Warner Bros., achieves a new record.

Now in its second week of theatrical release, the film, titled in our region One battle after anotherremains strong in theaters with a drop of only 22% at the international box office, adding $21.7 million dollars in 77 foreign markets, raising international receipts to $58.9 million.

The Global collection reached $101.7 million dollars as of Sundaybecoming the first film in PTA's filmography to exceed $100 million at the global box office.

Previously, PTA's highest-grossing film was the acclaimed period drama There Will Be Blood (2007) with a global box office of $76.4 million.

Produced on a budget of $140 million dollars, One Battle After Another It must raise at least $248.3 million more to reach its break-even point of $350 million. Film releases follow a rule of multiplying their budget by 2.5x to “break even.”

In the international market, the countries where it recorded the smallest drops at the box office in its second weekend in theaters are: New Zealand (+7%), Germany (+5%), Chile (+2%), Denmark (+1%), Italy (-4%), Poland (-5%), Netherlands (-7%), Colombia (-13%), Belgium (-17%), United Kingdom (-19%), Mexico (-20%)Australia (-22%), France (-24%), Spain (-25%) and Brazil (-29%).

In Latin America, the film only had a drop of 23%; It is already PTA's highest-grossing film in 13 markets in the region.

IMAX's total overseas box office gross currently stands at $5.4 million.

China will be the last market to premiere, on October 17.

This new record adds to its brilliant start at the box office with the best opening of the entire PTA filmography with $48.5 million global.

The movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio –in its first collaboration with PTA– focuses on a group of radical revolutionaries known as the French 75 which were dissolved more than a decade ago, but They return to action once an old enemy reappears.

In addition to DiCaprio, the cast includes heavyweights such as Benicio Del Toro (The Phoenician Scheme, Sicario), Regina Hall (Nine Perfect Strangers), Teyana Taylor (Straw, Coming 2 America), Chase Infiniti (Presumed Innocent) making his film debut, and Sean Penn (Gaslit, Licorice Pizza).

DiCaprio plays former activist Bob Ferguson, who now lives in seclusion and is known as “Ghetto Pat.” Infiniti, the star of the Apple TV+ series, Presumed Innocentplays their teenage daughter, now a budding revolutionary still maturing in the midst of the group's latest battle. Penn plays Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, the group's greatest adversary and a hate-driven white supremacist.

We share with you the criticism we made of One battle after another.

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS:

“When their evil enemy reappears after 16 years, a group of former revolutionaries gather to rescue the daughter of one of them.”

The composer Johnny Greenwood He collaborates again with Anderson on the film's original soundtrack.

Anderson filmed the movie in 35mm and VistaVision cameras in California in 2024.