Antifa propaganda movie with Leonardo DiCaprio TANKS at box office

The movie, according to the outlet, needs around $300 million in revenue to break even with the costs incurred by the film. Thus far, the film, released on September 26, has only been able to bring in $140 million. Citing executives with knowledge of the matter, Variety reports that the movie will turn out to be a $100 million loss.

The movie has been slammed by some online as glorifying left-wing violence and some have connected the movie to Antifa. The character is part of a group of "ex-revolutionaries" who "reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own,” per IMDb.

American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis said of the film, “It’s kind of shocking to see these kind of accolades for — I’m sorry, it’s not a very good movie — because of its political ideology, and it’s so obvious that’s what they’re responding to. Why it’s considered a masterpiece, the greatest film of the decade, the greatest film ever made [is] because it really aligns with this kind of leftist sensibility... [it will soon be] a kind of musty relic of the post-Kamala Harris era — that thing everyone gathers around and pretends is so fantastic and so great when it really isn’t, just to make a point… There’s a liberal mustiness to this movie that already feels very dated by October 2025. Very dated. And it just doesn’t read the room. You know, it reads a tiny corner of the room, but it does not read what is going on in America.”

One customer who viewed the film claimed the movie started with what he called an "Antifa war cry."

X account "The Realest Realist" posted about the film, "One Battle After Another is pure pro-antifa, anti-ICE, anti-white slop that glorifies violence against ICE and treats the color revolutionists as heroes. Don’t waste your money, it’s not what the hype trailers made it look like. Whoever made it doesn’t realize what year it is."

Warner Bros. spent $130 million on production, but only $70 million promoting the movie. Ticket sales are usually split 50-50 between studios and theaters. Additionally, since DiCaprio gets first-dollar gross revenue on the movies, he will be getting paid before the studio does.

“These prestige-type movies have failed to create a sense of FOMO among audiences,” Fandango box office analyst Shawn Robbins said. “They weren’t event-ized enough.” Since the pandemic, studios have shortened the amount of time it takes between when the movie is released in theaters and when it is available online. Robbins said this could lead people to expect movies at their fingertips in their home much sooner than previously.

“People have come to expect these movies to be available in the home much sooner than they used to be," Robbins added. However, Warner Bros. pushed back on the claim and told reporters that the company has had a successful year with their other releases.

“Warner Bros. refutes Variety's anonymous sources and their uninformed estimates,” a spokesperson said. “Films across the studio’s slate, including ‘One Battle After Another,’ have achieved financial reward in 2025 with more than $4 billion earned to date.”