The strong box office opening of One Battle After Another benefited everybody involved. Not only has the action film already become the second-biggest hit of director Paul Thomas Anderson 's career, it has also helped push star Leonardo DiCaprio further up the list of the highest-grossing actors of all time. One Battle After Another marked DiCaprio's 11th $20 million-plus debut at the domestic box office, which must've come as a big relief for Warner Bros. The studio has invested handsomely in the project, banking on Anderson's abilities and DiCaprio's star power at a time when original films of this size are rarely green-lit.

Thanks to the movie's $22 million domestic debut, DiCaprio 's career haul has hit $2.739 billion , enabling him to overtake Denzel Washington

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