{"id":223548,"date":"2025-06-29T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223548\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T08:39:11","slug":"f1-drives-laps-around-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223548\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 drives laps around the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, F1 is running laps around the competition at the box office, with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a> estimating a $55 million weekend. That\u2019s only about $5 million more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/box-office-predictions-brad-pitt-to-drive-laps-around-m3gan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we predicted<\/a> earlier this week, with the movie bolstered by excellent word-of-mouth, earning a terrific A CinemaScore rating. Yet, internationally, Formula One is a much bigger event than in North America, and it\u2019s looking at about $85 million overseas. That makes for a $140 million weekend all in, setting a box office record for star Brad Pitt (although World War Z made more domestically), and giving Apple Original Films a much-needed win at the box office. Clearly, the message that F1 cries out to be seen on the biggest screen possible is doing the trick (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B-qmy2fYxc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out our video on that very topic<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However, F1\u2019s success is proving to be a disaster for Blumhouse\u2019s M3GAN 2.0, which is on track to open with only about a third of the $30 million the first movie opened with \u2013 only $10 million. It\u2019s currently in a race for fourth place with 28 Years Later, which is stumbling a BRUTAL 67% in its second weekend. That\u2019s not a great result. Pixar\u2019s Elio is looking like it will beat both movies for third place with about $11 million. Second place will easily go to How to Train Your Dragon, which is looking at about $18.5 million, and might be able to crack the $200 million mark this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While F1\u2019s $55 million opening isn\u2019t a giant opening, the word-of-mouth might give the film an inside edge on overperforming this weekend. No doubt the studio is hoping the 4th of July weekend will provide it with a significant boost, with it possible the audiences not into Jurassic World: Rebirth might want to give F1 a shot. It\u2019s getting rave reviews (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/f1-review-the-most-immersive-racing-movie-ever-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including ours<\/a>), and certainly deserves to be a major hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are you seeing this weekend? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, F1 is running laps around the competition at the box office, with Deadline estimating a $55&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,4199,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-223548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114765756031214336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}