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News18
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- News18
F1 Advance Booking Box Office: Brad Pitt's Film Sells 55,000 Tickets In India
Last Updated: Brad Pitt's film has already found itself in the top 25 advance booking lists of all time for an international film at the Indian domestic box office. Brad Pitt is headed to take a surprising start at the domestic box office with his highly energetic sports thriller F1: The Movie. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, this sports drama is based on the Formula One World Championship and is created in collaboration with the FIA, its governing body. This much-awaited film is finally hitting the theatres on June 27, and the pre-sales have already surpassed all expectations. As per Pinkvilla reports, in the advance booking, Brad Pitt's F1 has sold over 55,000 tickets as of Thursday, 8:00 p.m. The tickets have been sold in India's top national chains, including PVR Inox and Cinepolis. The sales were largely driven by the IMAX version, which offers the best theatrical experiences on the biggest screens. As per early predictions, F1 is expected to reach the Rs 5 crore benchmark on its opening day. For a non-franchise film, F1 has already gone beyond expectations in advance bookings and is aiming to sell more tickets throughout the opening week. Previously, films like Final Destination: Bloodlines and Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning broke records at the Indian box office, and Brad Pitt's F1 is also expected to continue the legacy. Brad Pitt's film has already found itself in the top 25 advance booking lists of all time for an international film at the domestic box office. According to Variety reports, F1 is targeting $75 million across 77 international markets and is reportedly eyeing an estimated collection of $50 million to $60 million at the US box office. With a production budget of $200 million, F1 needs to be able to attract the masses to recoup its costs. According to early predictions, F1 is expected to hit the mark on its opening weekend, and if, in any case, it fails to reach expectations, the film may just be able to score big at the US box office during the 4th of July weekend. F1 further attracts audiences as director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are reuniting after attaining massive success for Top Gun: Maverick. Additionally, seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton's role as a producer is also providing a further boost to the film. First Published: June 27, 2025, 11:15 IST
Scroll.in
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scroll.in
‘F1' review: A winning combo of turbocharged racing and laidback charm
F1 dares you to dislike its characters or the film itself. There is no shortage of charmers or crowd-pleasing moments in the movie based on the Formula One World Championship and steered with verve and heart by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski. Brad Pitt is at the head of the queue, a hot-cool dude who makes race car driving look as easy as a buggy ride on a beach. Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, who might have up there with Ayrton Senna if he hadn't been in a near-fatal crash. Sonny is now following the 'It's not about the money' principle, content to pick up modest pay cheques at minor events. When Sonny is approached to join a team owned by his friend Ruben, he cannot refuse. One reason is that Sonny's Zen exterior conceals a repressed desire to win at Formula One. The bigger reason is surely Ruben, who is played by Javier Barden with scene-stealing warmth. The list of irresistibles includes talented British actor Damson Idris as Joshua, who is the star of Ruben's team but lacks the headline-grabbing wins that will put him in the big league. There are times when Sonny and Joshua find themselves in direct contest with each other, rather than with their rivals. Sonny's experience and at-times maddening sangfroid clashes with Joshua's youthful impulsiveness. Play F1 isn't even trying to reinvent the wheel in terms of its plotting. Ehren Kruger's screenplay faithfully follows the arc of the average redemption-oriented sports movie. What Kruger does well is to write solid scenes for well-rounded characters who have a palpable passion for racing. The dialogue is banal, but the emotion associated with the sport hits home. Ruben's team includes a lovely Kerry Condon as Kate, who has a hard time deflecting Sonny's mega-watt charisma. Kim Bodnia engagingly plays an overwrought team member. Sarah Niles is Joshua's formidable mother, who remarks on Sonny's handsomeness in one scene and threatens to have him hospitalised in the next. The film's clear preference for Sonny over Joshua does result in Joshua being relegated to second place. You don't know what it has taken me to reach here, Joshua, a Black Briton, tells the white-and-blonde American Sonny. We never do find out. FI is race-blind but always alert to the particular thrills of racing. The fabulously filmed contests have been shot at actual championships. Lewis Hamilton, among the movie's producers, turns up in a cameo alongside other Formula One luminaries. Stephen Mirrione's excellent editing creates seamless transitions between the pulsating races and the rivalry between the experienced Sonny and the brash Joshua. In several ways, F1 is a horizontal Top Gun, taking place on the ground rather than the sky, with a laidback hero who is the polar opposite of Tom Cruise's antsy Maverick. Brad Pitt's camera-friendliness and hippy demeanour sets the film's overall vibe of casualness and all-round goodwill. Peter (Tobias Menezes), an investor in Ruben's team, is the closest F1 gets to a villain. Peter's scheming is a clumsy element in a movie out to recreate the pleasures of a hugely popular, turbocharged sport. Play
Daily Mirror
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Brad Pitt rocks a bold green suit as he embraces Tom Cruise at film premiere
Brad Pitt has the lead role in F1 The Movie, which is based on the Formula One World Championship, and is created in collaboration with the FIA, its governing body It is easy being green after all - if you're two-time BAFTA winner Brad Pitt. The Hollywood legend donned a verdant hue at the European premiere of F1 The Movie in London last night. He has a lead role in the sports drama, which sees a retired Formula One driver enticed out of retirement to help mentor a younger driver. And joined by his girlfriend Ines de Ramon, Pitt, 61, looked dapper in the green suit. He also embraced Tom Cruise on the red carpet as, although he is not in F1 The Movie, Cruise has shown his support for the epic blockbuster, which has a $200million (£148million) budget. Speaking previously, Pitt said Cruise was "so sweet" for backing the film, and when asked about working together again in a movie he said: "I am not going to hang my ass off airplanes like he does something again that's on the ground." Met Gala: Damson Idris' bold arrival at iconic fashion event is nod at his Tommy Hilfiger role Damson Idris, who has been in The Banshees Of Inisherin's Kerry Condon and Snowfall, plays the young prodigy in the movie. He arrived at the Met Gala in a racing suit in May in homage to the film. And, last night, he and the rest of the cast posed next to Formula One Ferrari driver Sir Lewis Hamilton, who was dressed in all black. Hamilton and the nine other F1 drivers in the 2023 season, such as Max Verstappen, will appear in the film, created in collaboration with the FIA, Formula One World Championship's governing body. Cruise, who worked with Pitt in the 1994 horror Interview With A Vampire, was snapped on the red carpet too. With F1 The Movie likely to be a dramatic, high-energy number, viewers could expect some stunts - though not as death-defying as Cruise's scaling of Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper and riding a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff in the popular Mission: Impossible franchise. Pitt, whose own career has spanned more than three decades, showed his respect with warm embraces at the Leicester Square event. Pitt, who has won two Golden Globe Awards, is known for films including Fight Club, 12 Years A Slave and Moneyball. The star has received six Oscar nominations, winning two including best actor in a supporting role for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood. He is also known for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, in which he played Lieutenant Aldo Raine. Pitt, originally from Shawnee, Oklahoma, was formerly married to actress Angelina Jolie who he shares six children with. The pair split up after Jolie filed for divorce in September 2016, which led to an eight-year legal battle with a settlement reached in December.
Time of India
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Brad Pitt's advice to his younger self: Trust that voice
Picture Credit: X Hollywood star Brad Pitt shared that one piece of advice he'd give his younger self and said he used to "waste" a lot of time worrying about things that ultimately didn't matter. He told E! News: "Don't sweat it, bro. Trust yourself. Really, just trust that voice. So many things I agonised that were just a waste of time, I agonised over in the early years. Really, just trust your voice. " The star also took the time to reflect on the way his career has changed over the years, as he pointed out how his own path followed the trends of the movie industry, reports He explained: "It's gone through so many incarnations in the sense of, when the '90s came in it was all about independent cinema and getting back to this '70s kind of filmmaking. Then we saw in the 00s, the blockbuster was emerging again, and then streamers came on and just changed everything all over again. "The cool thing about it is, there's just more and more people getting opportunities. This pool of talented people always existed." Pitt recently addressed his divorce from Angelina Jolie, which was finalised in December 2024, more than eight years after their split. Asked whether he felt "relief" at the legal end of the marriage, Pitt told GQ magazine: "No, I don't think it was that major of a thing. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 서재걸 '단기간에 '묵은지방' 녹이려면 "이것'' 꼭 해야!!' 서재걸 다이어트 더 알아보기 Undo Just something coming to fruition. Legally." Pitt is currently dating 34-year-old Ines de Ramon, while Jolie is thought to be single. "F1", is a sports drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski. It is based on the Formula One World Championship, created in collaboration with the FIA, its governing body. The film stars Brad Pitt in the lead role, alongside Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, and Javier Bardem .
Irish Independent
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
F1 – The Movie: Brad Pitt's latest follows usual sports movie formula to get over the line
A vibrant, extravagant crowd-pleaser, the kind that Tom Cruise likes to make in between Mission: Impossible outings, F1: The Movie was purposely designed to make audiences sweat, to get the blood pumping, to somehow convince us Formula One racing is the only sport worth caring about. It isn't, not by a long shot, but Pitt's film, directed by Top Gun: Maverick chief Joseph Kosinski, comes with a rumoured $300m budget. It was also produced with the full cooperation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), governing body of the Formula One World Championship. In other words, this pricey, confident picture looks and, indeed, sounds the part. Everything is dialled up to 11. If Pitt's swanky motor misses a corner, we feel it in our gut. If one of his opponents spins and crashes, you start to worry for their safety. Throw in a muscular dad-rock soundtrack – a bit of Led Zeppelin here, some Queen there – and this thing will rattle your bones and loosen the screws in your seat. Mind you, all the money in the world won't fix an iffy screenplay, and F1: The Movie (that title stinks, by the way) is about as derivative a sports drama as they come. Swap the cars out for fighter jets, and you have a Top Gun picture. Give Pitt's protagonist a fedora and a leather coat, and he might pass for Rocky. With various real-life professionals lending a hand (Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton is a producer), Kosinski's film comes dangerously close to resembling a glorified commercial for the FIA. What next, you wonder? FIFA World Cup: The Motion Picture? Tour de France: The Mini-Series? You wouldn't bet against it, and Pitt and his co-stars, Javier Bardem (devouring the scenery) and Kerry Condon (explaining the technical bits), are forced to dance around one too many hilarious product placements. Listen, if it helps pay the bills. Our story begins, as these things usually do, with a heady blast of rock and roll. Say hello to Sonny Hayes (Pitt), a driver-for-hire who used to have the world at his feet. ADVERTISEMENT Back in the 1990s, Sonny was the next big thing in Formula One. A gnarly accident changed everything – so, too, did a rotten gambling addiction – and our ageless hero now lives out of his van. There is no silver lining, no five-year plan. Today, he might help one squad win the 24 Hours of Daytona; tomorrow, who knows? Enter Ruben Cervantes (Bardem), owner of the Apex Grand Prix team. The Apex crew have had a rough season – they need a win, maybe even a miracle, and Ruben, an old pal of Sonny's, needs someone special to help him from going broke. He needs Sonny to drive again, basically. Before you can say 'nice wheels', Sonny is back on the track, where he belongs, much to the annoyance of Apex hotshot Joshua 'JP' Pearce (Damson Idris) and technical director Kate McKenna (Condon, holding on tight to the Tipperary accent). You'll hardly need to be told what happens next. Yes, the veteran driver clashes with the rookie superstar. Yes, the brainy car people invent new ways to drive faster. Meanwhile, poor Kate inevitably falls for beautiful Brad, and at least one of our contenders ends up in the hospital. F1: The Movie won't win any points for originality, but I guess we're not here to watch Pitt rewrite the sports feature rulebook. Some patterns are there to be followed, and this noisy, exuberant enterprise is happy to oblige. Kosinski's joint isn't quite as gripping as, say, Ron Howard's Rush, nor is it as charming as James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari. Those films had a decent story under their hoods; not this one, and the flashy, cinematic sports ad stops being fun whenever Sonny and his pals exit their vehicles. Enthusiastic performances help. Condon (delightful, as ever) and Bardem (collecting a well-deserved pay cheque here) make the most of a hackneyed set-up, and our central warrior is his usual unflappable self. Pitt has now entered his Paul Newman phase: he makes everything sound good, even when it isn't. But I do wonder if another old-school movie star might have been better for the role. We mentioned a more suitable candidate's name at the top. Worth a trip to the pictures, all the same. Three stars
