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 millionOne 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 FergusonSean Penn as Colonel Steven J. LockjawBenicio del Toro as Sergio St. CarlosRegina Hall as DeandraTeyana Taylor as Perfidia Beverly HillsChase Infiniti as Willa Ferguson / Charlene CalhounWood Harris as LaredoAlana Haim as Mae WestShayna McHayle as JunglepussyPaul Grimstad as Howard Sommerville/Billy Goat/Gringo CoyoteTony Goldwyn as Virgil ThrockmortonJon Beavers as 1776 JamesJohn Hoogenakker as Tim SmithStarletta DuPois as Grandma MinnieEric Schweig as AvantiDan Chariton as Comrade JoshD. W. Moffett as Bill DesmondKevin Tighe as Roy MoreJim Downey as Sandy IrvineJames Raterman as Col. DanversDijon Duenas as TalleyrandIn 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.Stay tuned to Soap Central for more such stories.