While it ended Warner Bros.’ streak of $40 million+ openings this year, One Battle After Another still gave them another #1 opening at the box office.
One Battle After Another opened to $22 million domestically over the weekend. That is by far the biggest opening ever for director Paul Thomas Anderson, whose movies have typically started extremely limited and slowly expanded to a broader release. One Battle cost a hefty $140 million to make, not counting marketing, so it would need to make around $250 million+ worldwide to break even and more to be profitable in the theatrical window. Warner Bros. may be less concerned with that compared to something like Superman, as One Battle After Another is sure to be a massive Oscar contender when awards season kicks into high gear. Worldwide, One Battle has made $48.3 million.
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie took second place with $13.6 million for its opening weekend. The movie got a rare A+ CinemaScore, so it absolutely nailed what its target kid audience was looking for. Worldwide, it has grossed $19.2 million, and its production cost was around $32 million. Therefore, it probably needs to earn close to $64 million worldwide to break even. However, the CinemaScore, combined with the lack of real competition for kids in theaters for a while, could help it have long legs.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle dropped to third place with another $7.1 million. It has grossed $118.1 million domestically and $602.8 million worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2025.
The Conjuring: Last Rites and The Strangers: Chapter 2 rounded out the top 5. The Strangers: Chapter 2 debuted with $5.8 million, massively down from The Strangers: Chapter 1 from May last year and well below the other entries in the franchise. This seems like a clear case of diminishing returns, but there is supposedly one more film in this new trilogy of movies on the way.
Further down the list, India’s They Call Him OG debuted in ninth place with $1.4 million, while Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 returned to theaters for a special event and made $1.1 million.
The best per-theater average went to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which was in 15 theaters and celebrating its 50th anniversary. It made $9,000 in each theater.
