{"id":129738,"date":"2025-08-08T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129738\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:40:14","slug":"the-movie-zooming-past-560m-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129738\/","title":{"rendered":"The Movie&#8217; Zooming Past $560M Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHeading into summer 2025, no one could have ever imagined that F1: The Movie would drive some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest tentpoles off the road, breaking the Formula One movie curse and delivering high-octane milestones for all involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOver the Aug. 1-3 weekend \u2014 its sixth weekend in release \u2014 the movie surpassed the $540.4 million earned by World War Z to become the top-grossing film of Brad Pitt\u2019s career in a leading role with more than $546 million in worldwide ticket sales through that Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat number sped to $557.8 million through Thursday, Aug. 8, including a domestic tally of $175.7 million and $382.2 million overseas (it will cross the $560 million mark sometime on Friday). Put another way, F1 has earned almost as much as DC Studios\u2019 summer tentpole Superman, which has grossed $565.52 million to date at the global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/box-office\/\" id=\"auto-tag_box-office_1\" data-tag=\"box-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">box office<\/a>, including $323.4 million domestically and $242.1 million overseas through Aug. 8. The original action-adventure could ultimately come close to matching Mission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning, which has earned $595 million since its release in late May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tF1, reuniting Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is perhaps most notable in being a mega-win for Apple Original Films\u2019 foray into theatrical after the tech giant suffered several high-profile box office misses. That includes Martin Scorsese\u2019s big-budget Killers of the Flower Moon, which limped to $158.7 million globally in 2023, not adjusted for inflation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tExhibitors need flush new players like Apple, or Amazon MGM Studios, to replenish the pipeline as the legacy studios release fewer films. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cApple, given its incredibly large tech footprint, cultural branding resonance and tremendous financial resources, is the perfect partner for creatives and studios looking to replicate the home run that is F1: The Movie,\u201d says Comscore chief box office analyst Paul Dergerabedian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUnlike Amazon MGM, Apple doesn\u2019t have its own distribution pipeline either domestically or overseas, so must rely on a third-party studio to release its films; in the case of F1, it is Warners, which is also home of DC Studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film is doing so well that Apple has abided by a traditional theatrical window, versus reversing course and slapping the film on Apple TV+. Additionally, Imax is rereleasing the action drama on select screens over the Aug. 8-10 weekend before expanding into additional auditoriums on Aug. 15. So far, the pic is Imax\u2019s highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2025 with more than $85 million in ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tF1 the movie is doing staggering business in markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia, including in China, where it has earned $56.1 million to date, among the highest showings of the year for a Hollywood title (Superman has topped at a mere $8.9 million at the Chinese box office).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt remains to be seen whether F1 can ultimately cross the $600 million milestone with the added boost of being made available again in Imax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAudiences around the world have embraced F1: The Movie as an adrenaline-pumping, big screen experience, and its rerelease in Imax is a testament to the global popularity of the film,\u201d said Matt Dentler, head of features, Apple Original Films. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGlobally, F1 ranks No. 8 on the year\u2019s list of top-grossing films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading into summer 2025, no one could have ever imagined that F1: The Movie would drive some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[207,171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-129738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-box-office","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114994611991220923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}