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 A

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