One Battle After Another: Leonardo DiCaprio's Blockbuster on Track to Overtake Denzel's Oscar Winner

As of October 7th, 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest action thriller, "One Battle After Another," has maintained steady momentum at the global box office and is closing in on the lifetime earnings of the 2001 Denzel Washington crime drama "Training Day."

The Leonardo DiCaprio-led film has already crossed the coveted $100 million milestone, collecting $42.6 million in North America and an additional $59.5 million internationally, for a global total of $102.1 million. This makes it director Paul Thomas Anderson's highest-grossing film to date.

Compared to other 2025 releases, "One Battle After Another" is almost on par with Liam Neeson's action-comedy "The Naked Gun" and currently trails Ben Affleck's sequel "The Accountant 2" by just over $1 million in worldwide earnings. Now, the film is on track to surpass the lifetime gross of the early 2000s Oscar-winning cop drama "Training Day," which starred Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.

Inspired by Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel "Vineland," "One Battle After Another" follows Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a former member of the revolutionary group French 75, whose life is thrown into chaos when his daughter goes missing and a dangerous enemy from his past resurfaces after sixteen years. The film also stars Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti in pivotal roles.