F1 The Movie has sped past an astonishing box office record. The new movie, which was directed by Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosisnki, follows retired Formula 1 driver (Brad Pitt) returning to the racetrack to team with a hotshot young driver named Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris).
The F1 The Movie release kicked off on June 27 with a domestic opening weekend total of $57 million. It kept climbing from there, speeding past the worldwide grosses of Napoleon ($221.4 million) and Killers of the Flower Moon ($158.8 million) to become Apple Studios’ highest-grossing theatrical release of all time.
Per Deadline, F1 The Movie has now hit a cumulative global box office total of $545.6 million. This has surpassed the $540.4 million worldwide haul of 2013’s World War Z to make it the highest-grossing movie starring Brad Pitt of all time.
There is only one movie in which Brad Pitt appears that has outgrossed F1 The Movie. That would be the superhero sequel Deadpool 2, in which the star makes a brief cameo appearance, and which grossed $785.9 million worldwide, making it the ninth highest-grossing release of 2018.
What This Means For F1 The Movie
This all-time record for F1 The Movie is particularly remarkable because Brad Pitt has had a decades-long career full of major successes.
Other than World War Z, some of the highest-grossing movies starring the two-time Oscar winner include Troy ($497.4 million), Mr. and Mrs. Smith ($487.3 million), and the Ocean’s trliogy ($450.7 million, $362.7 million, and $311.3 million respectively).
Altogether, more than 25 different Brad Pitt movies have grossed more than $100 million worldwide, bringing his cumulative box office to many billions of dollars. While F1 The Movie has a solid, Certified Fresh, Rotten Tomatoes score of 83%, this level of performance is still completely overwhelming, speaking to the global popularity of both Pitt and the Formula 1 brand.
Our Take On The F1 The Movie Box Office Record
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One peculiar aspect of this box office smash is the fact that the budget of F1 The Movie is so high that it might not yet have broken even at the box office. With a reported price tag of up to $300 million, its estimated break-even point could potentially be as high as $750 million, a total which it seems unlikely to ever reach.
However, Apple Studios typically uses their theatrical releases as brand promotion and as a foundation for their movies’ eventual streaming run on Apple TV+. By those standards, in spite of this hurdle, F1 The Movie is a smashing success, having garnered more than double the attention of any of their previous big-budget titles.
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Source: Deadline
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- Release Date
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June 27, 2025
- Runtime
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156 Minutes
- Director
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Joseph Kosinski
- Writers
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Joseph Kosinski, Ehren Kruger
- Producers
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Brad Pitt, Chad Oman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeremy Kleiner, Lewis Hamilton, Joseph Kosinski, Dede Gardner
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Damson Idris
Joshua ‘Noah’ Pearce