Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically acclaimed One Battle After One other received the weekend field workplace, although the street to profitability will probably be itself a battle after one other over the next weekends. Deadline reviews that One Battle After One other took the primary spot on the weekend field workplace with an estimated $22.4 million opening weekend on the home field workplace, and a $48.5 million worldwide debut, marking the largest opening weekend for director Paul Thomas Anderson. In the meantime, The Strangers: Chapter 2 opened at quantity 5 on the field workplace with a disappointing $5.9 million, down 50% from the $11.8 million opening weekend of The Strangers: Chapter 1 again in the summertime of 2024.
One of many larger surprises of the weekend was Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film, the live-action adaptation of the favored Netflix animated sequence, took the quantity two spot on the field workplace with a formidable $13.7 million estimated opening weekend. The highest 5 was rounded out by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Citadel and The Conjuring: Final Rites at numbers three and 4, respectively. Final week’s two new releases, Him and A Large Stunning Journey, skilled horrible second-weekend drops. Him had a 72% drop to sixth place, bringing in $3.6 million, whereas A Large Stunning Journey dropped out of the highest ten to quantity eleven with $1.25 million at a 62% drop.
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One Battle After One other is prone to garner quite a lot of consideration, because it has already turn into director Paul Thomas Anderson’s second-highest-grossing movie, surpassing There Will Be Blood in only one weekend of launch. With a reported manufacturing finances of $140 million, One Battle After One other has a protracted technique to go till it’s deemed worthwhile within the theatrical market. Nonetheless, because of nice opinions from critics and audiences, together with an A CinemaScore and a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie might obtain an added increase within the coming weeks as extra audiences turn into curious to take a look at what all of the hype is about. One Battle After One other is already producing Oscar buzz, and whereas the award present is months away, Warner Bros. may be capable of construct some momentum off the early buzz.
Relating to the robust debut of Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film, Common’s Home Distribution Chief Jim Orr mentioned in an announcement to Deadline, “Not surprisingly, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film was extremely properly acquired on the home field workplace this weekend with viewers response scores that time to a protracted, profitable run going ahead. Its devoted followers cherished seeing their beloved characters in a brand new journey on the large display screen.” With the theatrical market largely devoid of household movies till Zootopia 2 hits theaters in late November, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film may maintain properly within the coming weeks and has the potential to make its $32 million manufacturing finances. If nothing else, the film will definitely generate quite a lot of merchandise gross sales.
The Strangers: Chapter 2 is an enormous query mark for now. Whereas the $5.9 million opening weekend is disappointing, the film solely value $8.5 million to make, so it theoretically may recoup its finances. Nonetheless, phrase of mouth on The Strangers: Chapter 2 is extraordinarily unfavorable, with a C- CinemaScore and an abysmal 18% on Rotten Tomatoes. This means the film may face a large drop within the coming weeks, leaving doubts about what the longer term holds for the finished Strangers: Chapter 3.
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September 26, 2025
- Runtime
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162 minutes