The film went on to make $40.2 million in North America and $35.9 million in the rest of the world, with a worldwide total of $76.1 million, well above its $25 million budget however, the prints and advertising cost for the film's United States release cost about $40 million.
The film then opened in 885 theaters in selected markets on January 25, 2008, grossing $4.8 million on its opening weekend. The film was released on December 26, 2007, in New York City and Los Angeles where it grossed US$190,739 on its opening weekend. The first public screening of There Will Be Blood was on September 29, 2007, at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. It grossed $76.2 million worldwide on a $25 million budget. At the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, it won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director and a Special Artistic Contribution Award for Jonny Greenwood's score. The film was produced by Ghoulardi Film Company and distributed by Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier co-star. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair.
