‘One Battle After Another’ Launches With $2.5M in Preview Earnings

Warner Bros.’ fresh film featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and helmed by Paul Thomas Anderson, titled One Battle After Another, is reporting around $2.5 million from its preview screenings, with room for growth based on insider reports.

A Deadline report indicates that presale tickets are performing well in urban areas and are still picking up momentum.

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This amount is close to the preview earnings of Leonardo DiCaprio’s previous project, Apple Original Films’ Killers of the Flower Moon, which earned $2.6 million on its opening Thursday, leading to a $9.4 million Friday and a $23.2 million weekend total. That release occurred amid the 2023 strikes, limiting cast promotions, and the Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of a popular book ran for 3 hours and 26 minutes. In contrast, *One Battle After Another* clocks in at a more concise 2 hours and 41 minutes (and it keeps a brisk pace).

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The Thursday previews for One Battle After Another, which kicked off at 2 p.m. across 3,200 theaters, fall short of Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 DiCaprio-starring Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which pulled in $5.8 million from 4 p.m. showings. That R-rated film escalated to a $16.7 million Friday and $41 million over the weekend, marking Tarantino’s biggest domestic debut. It benefited from an early August slot, plus the star appeal of Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. *Once Upon a Time…* also enjoyed strong ongoing buzz, starting with a high-profile Cannes debut at the beginning of summer.

The audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes for One Battle After Another is currently at 87%, surpassing several DiCaprio favorites like The Revenant (84%), Killers of the Flower Moon (84%), The Wolf of Wall Street (83%), and even Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (70%). Compared to Anderson’s works, it’s far above his 2021 film Licorice Pizza (65%), slightly better than the two-time Oscar-winning There Will Be Blood (86%), but just below Boogie Nights and Magnolia, both at 89%.

One Battle After Another is projected to earn in the lower $20 million bracket domestically, against a production budget of $130 million to $140 million. Its ultimate success will unfold over time. Warner Bros. chose to avoid the major fall festivals following last year’s backlash against Joker: Folie à Deux at Venice. Instead, they started screenings as critics returned from Toronto. A strong opening for One Battle After Another would boost confidence in original cinema releases amid the dominance of streaming.