One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, and follows an ex-revolutionary who fights against a corrupt military official.
Anderson had wanted to adapt Pynchon's novel Vineland for years, and eventually incorporated several of his own stories into the book's narrative. Filming took place in California and was shot using VistaVision, making it one of the first films, alongside The Brutalist (2024), to use the format for principal photography since the 1960s. The budget, initially greenlit at $115 million, ballooned to as much as $175 million, the most expensive of Anderson's career.
One Battle After Another had its world premiere in Los Angeles on September 8, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 26. The film received critical acclaim, and has grossed $112 million worldwide, becoming Anderson's highest...