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September 26 - September 28, 2025
Published on September 25, 2025 at 7:30PM Pacific |
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| Warner Bros. will look to have another film open in first place during 2025 with the release of One Battle After Another this weekend. The pricey Paul Thomas Anderson directed action thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti. One Battle After Another is playing in 3,634 locations this weekend, is playing on IMAX screens and has Thursday preview shows beginning early at 2PM. One Battle After Another is one of the year's best reviewed films by critics and is also considered a major awards season contender this year. While One Battle After Another represents a more mainstream film for director Paul Thomas Anderson, at the same time the film doesn't feel nearly as mainstream when it comes to star Leonardo DiCaprio. Back in October of 2023, the Leonardo DiCaprio led Killers of the Flower Moon debuted with $23.25 million in a similar situation. Another strong opening weekend comparison for One Battle After Another could prove to be the far less expensive Civil War, which opened with $25.54 million in April of last year. The larger box office battle for One Battle After Another will be whether or not the film will be able to display stronger holding power than both Killers of the Flower Moon and Civil War did, as both of those films had poorer than expected holding power, and there is at least the possibility that One Battle After Another won't go over quite as well with audiences as it has with critics. As for this weekend, BoxOfficeReport is predicting that One Battle After Another will start out with a promising $25.0 million. |
| Also opening in theatres this weekend is Universal and DreamWorks Animation's Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie. The Ryan Crego directed family comedy is a live-action / animation hybrid based on the Gabby's Dollhouse Netflix series. Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie stars Laila Lockhart Kraner, Gloria Estefan and Kristen Wiig. The film is playing in 3,500 locations this weekend and has Thursday preview shows beginning early at 2PM. Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie should be helped out by the lack of options for family audiences in the marketplace at the moment, but at the same time anticipation for the film feels fairly modest. On a positive note, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie is far less expensive than usual for a film from DreamWorks Animation. Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie could debut in second place this weekend with $15.0 million. |
| Blockbuster holdovers Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle and The Conjuring: Last Rites will likely find themselves in a very close race for third place this weekend. Last weekend Sony / Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle declined 75.5 percent to hold steady in first place with $17.30 million, while Warner Bros.'s The Conjuring: Last Rites decreased by 52.1 percent to take third place with $12.28 million. Both films should hold up significantly better this weekend than they did last weekend. Look for The Conjuring: Last Rites to decline 36.5 percent from last weekend to gross $7.8 million and for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle to decrease 55.5 percent from last weekend to take in a very similar $7.7 million. |
| This weekend also sees the release of Lionsgate's The Strangers: Chapter 2. The Renny Harlin directed horror film, which stars Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath, is a follow-up to last year's The Strangers: Chapter 1. The Strangers: Chapter 2 is opening in 2,690 locations this weekend and has Thursday preview shows beginning at 6PM. The Strangers: Chapter 1 opened with $11.83 million in May of last year, but there appears to be significantly less anticipation this time around for The Strangers: Chapter 2. Arriving in the marketplace so soon after The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Long Walk and Him, won't help matters for The Strangers: Chapter 2 this weekend. BoxOfficeReport is predicting that The Strangers: Chapter 2 will round out this weekend's top five with a modest $6.2 million. |
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Weekend predictions for this weekend's top 8 films at the domestic box office.
| Rank | Film (Distributor) | Weekend Gross |
Total Gross |
% Change |
Week # |
| 1 | One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) |
$25.0 M | $25.0 M | NEW | 1 |
| 2 | Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (Universal / DreamWorks Animation) |
$15.0 M | $15.0 M | NEW | 1 |
| 3 | The Conjuring: Last Rites (Warner Bros. / New Line) |
$7.8 M | $162.4 M | -36% | 4 |
| 4 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (Sony / Crunchyroll) |
$7.7 M | $118.8 M | -56% | 3 |
| 5 | The Strangers: Chapter 2 (Lionsgate) |
$6.2 M | $6.2 M | NEW | 1 |
| 6 | Him (Universal) |
$4.4 M | $21.6 M | -67% | 2 |
| 7 | The Long Walk (Lionsgate) |
$4.2 M | $29.6 M | -33% | 3 |
| 8 | Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Focus) |
$3.3 M | $38.8 M | -48% | 3 |
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