Over the weekend, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won a partial victory in an ongoing war for audience share that has transfixed Hollywood since March. The action-dramedy, a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel, Vineland , took in $22.4 million to grab the top spot among new releases at the box office. Slightly undershooting some prerelease “tracking” estimates (which foresaw One Battle taking in $25 million domestically) while notching a global tally of $48.5 million, that haul arrives as the biggest opening of Anderson’s three-decade career: eclipsing his previous personal best, the $4.8 million debut of 2007’s Upton Sinclair adaptation There Will Be Blood . On the flip side, though, that $22.4 million pales in comparison with One

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