Elsewhere, “One Battle After Another” surpasses unprecedented $200 million globally, and “Keeper” marks a new low for Osgood Perkins.

*Now You See Me 3 *steals ahead of The Running Man in weekend box office race

Elsewhere, "One Battle After Another" surpasses unprecedented $200 million globally, and "Keeper" marks a new low for Osgood Perkins.

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November 16, 2025 5:30 p.m. ET

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Jesse Eisenberg in 'Now You See Me: Now You Don't' and Glen Powell in 'The Running Man'. Credit:

Katalin Vermes/Lionsgate; Ross Ferguson/Paramount Pictures

- *Now You See Me: Now You Don't*, the third entry in the illusionist heist franchise, won the weekend box office.

- Glen Powell's *The Running Man *fell short of the top spot, while *One Battle After Another *surpassed $200 million globally, and Osgood Perkins had a worryingly small open for *Keeper*.

- Next weekend, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande reunite to undoubtedly blast open the box office with *Wicked: For Good.*

This is no sleight of hand: *Now You See Me: Now You Don't *hit the jackpot at the weekend box office.

The third entry in producers Bobby Kurtzman and Alex Cohen's illusionist heist film franchise outpaced the title many considered the clear frontrunner, *The Running Man*. Neither Glen Powell's ascendant A-list charisma, nor Edgar Wright's athletic direction, nor even Stephen King's lean, mean source material, which was first adapted in 1987, proved fit enough to break the ribbon in the mid-November box office race.

*Now You Don't *earned the top spot with a $21.3 million domestic take and impressive $75.5 million abroad, while *The Running Man *followed closely behind with $17 million domestically and $28.2 million abroad, per Comscore. That puts the ensemble thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, and Mark Ruffalo roughly apace with its predecessors. The 2013 franchise kickstarter earned $29.3 million domestically in its first weekend, while the 2016 sequel, *Now You See Me 2*, scored $22.3 million.**

Teyana Taylor in 'One Battle After Another'.

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

*Now You Don't *and *The Running Man *may have been neck and neck on the domestic charts this weekend, but globally, two other titles closed the gap between them.

The first was *Predator: Badlands*, another successful attempt to breathe new life into a well-established franchise. The Elle Fanning-led action thriller scored No. 3 domestically and globally in its second week, with $13 million and $29.1 million takes, respectively. Only close watchers of the box office tides saw No. 2 coming. The dark anime fantasy film *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle* had already earned over $650 million at the global box office after being released in Japan way back in July. After finally being unleashed in China this weekend, it roared back with a vengeance, scoring $53.8 million.

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One of the happiest stories at the weekend box office, especially for fans of original arthouse cinema, is Paul Thomas Anderson's *One Battle After Another *surpassing $200 million globally. The adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's satirically barbed revolutionary saga *Vineland *that stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, and Teyana Taylor has become one of the great success stories of films targeted at the cinephile demographic, well surpassing its budget, which has been reported anywhere from $130 million to $175 million.

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Elsewhere on the domestic and global charts, the Colleen Hoover adaptation *Regretting You *is holding onto the top 5 at home with a $4 million week four take, giving it a $45 million cumulative gross. Yorgos Lanthimos' latest oddity with muse Emma Stone, the conspiracy farce *Bugonia*, similarly held fast in week four with a $1.6 million take, earning it $15.6 million at home and $30 million abroad on an estimated $45-$55 million budget.

If there is a sob story in the weekend's numbers, it's a half-stifled sob that'll need time to prove lasting or just a fluke. Horror auteur Osgood Perkins' third feature, *Keeper*, released in theaters in the span of 15 months, debuted to just $2.5 million. That's not half bad when considering its estimated $6 million budget. But it's not great, taking into account the opening weekend performances of the last two: 2024's *Longlegs *grossed $22.4 million on an estimated $10 million budget, while *The Monkey *scored $14 million domestically on a similar budget earlier this year. Strung together, however, the opening numbers of these three films chart a steady decline for Perkins.****

There is absolutely, positively zero question what is going to dominate the box office next weekend, and it isn't *No You Don't *or *The Running Man.*

*Wicked: For Good* floats down to viewers in its bubble on Friday, marking the conclusion of an epic saga begun last year with *Wicked*'s stupendifying $164 million global debut. Stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande did significantly less press this time around, but the film is still tracking to open even bigger than its predecessor. "That's why," to paraphrase *For Good*'s opening number, "Thank Goodness," director Jon M. Chu "couldn't be happier."

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