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One Battle After Another had its world premiere at LA's TCL Chinese Theatre and Warner Bros. Pictures released it theatrically on September 26, 2025. The action thriller flick is written and helmed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who adapted it from Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland. Its official synopsis, as mentioned on Letterboxd is as follows:
When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.
The film has met with a positive critical response. However, despite this, it has been unable to perform well at the box office and has become the biggest flop of 2025.
One Battle After Another to lose $100 million
One Battle After Another has so far grossed approximately $140 million at the box office. It is made on a production budget of $130 million, while $70 million was spent on marketing. This means that this nearly three-hour-long film needs to mint $300 million so that it can break even. Some studio executives have informed Variety that the film is expected to lose $100 million, making it the biggest flop of this year.
One Battle After Another is produced by Anderson, Sara Murphy, and Adam Somner under the banner of Ghoulardi Film Company. Its cast members include,
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Pat Calhoun/Rocketman/Bob Ferguson
- Sean Penn as Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw
- Benicio del Toro as Sergio St. Carlos
- Regina Hall as Deandra
- Teyana Taylor as Perfidia Beverly Hills
- Chase Infiniti as Willa Ferguson / Charlene Calhoun
- Wood Harris as Laredo
- Alana Haim as Mae West
- Shayna McHayle as Junglepussy
- Paul Grimstad as Howard Sommerville/Billy Goat/Gringo Coyote
- Tony Goldwyn as Virgil Throckmorton
- Jon Beavers as 1776 James
- John Hoogenakker as Tim Smith
- Starletta DuPois as Grandma Minnie
- Eric Schweig as Avanti
- Dan Chariton as Comrade Josh
- D. W. Moffett as Bill Desmond
- Kevin Tighe as Roy More
- Jim Downey as Sandy Irvine
- James Raterman as Col. Danvers
- Dijon Duenas as Talleyrand
In an interview with The Playlist, Anderson revealed that he was working on the novel adaptation for several years.
“I started working on this story 20 years ago with the goal of writing an action car-chase movie, and I returned to it every two or three years. At the same time, this was in the early 2000s, I had the notion to adapt Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” a book about the 1960s that he wrote in the ’80s. So I was trying to decide what the story meant another 20 years later. The third idea floating around in my mind at the time was a character, a female revolutionary. So really, for 20 years, I had been pulling on all these different threads, and in a way, none of them ever left me."
One Battle After Another is currently playing in theatres.
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