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Japan Today
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Japan Today
LA home reportedly owned by Brad Pitt ransacked by burglars, police say
Brad Pitt poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "F1 The Movie" in London on June 23. By ITZEL LUNA Police are investigating a break-in at a home reportedly owned by Brad Pitt, who has been on a globe-spanning promo tour for his new movie, 'F1.' The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed they responded to a break-in Wednesday night at a house on the 2300 block of North Edgemont Street in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Three suspects broke into the residence through the front window, ransacked the home and fled with miscellaneous property, said Officer Drake Madison. Madison said he could not identify who owned or lived in the home, and no information is currently available on what was stolen. Pitt reportedly bought the home for $5.5 million in April 2023, according to Traded, a commercial real estate website. A Pitt representative declined comment. Pitt has been out of the country on a promotional tour for the 'F1' movie. He attended the international premiere in London on Monday. The movie opened in U.S. theaters Friday. The burglary was first reported Thursday by NBC News. © Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
Miami Herald
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Pitt stop: How Las Vegas helped bring ‘F1 The Movie' to life
LAS VEGAS - We've all had that week at work. There was a project due or an uptick in responsibilities. Maybe a couple of key people were out. You were pulled in a thousand directions and weren't sure how you'd get everything done. Focus on it. Really try to put yourself back inside those moments. Then throw Brad Pitt into the mix, along with everything that comes with a star of his magnitude, including a hundred-person film crew, and you'll have a sense of what it was like in November when F1 and "F1 The Movie" descended upon the Las Vegas Grand Prix. A whole new look at racing Few summer blockbusters have had the access that "F1" enjoyed. Heck, some documentaries don't get that close to their subjects. Journeyman driver Sonny Hayes (Pitt) lives in a van, wears mismatched socks and hasn't been on a Formula One track since crashing out of the circuit three decades ago. But when his old friend Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) is at risk of losing his struggling race team, Sonny signs on to drive for him and mentor promising rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). The movie follows the traveling circus that is Formula One to the last nine races of the 2024 season, starting with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The cast and crew were embedded throughout. "They were so giving and opened up all their doors," Pitt says of F1 in the film's production notes. "We were able to shoot on race weekends, shoot on podiums, shoot during the national anthem. We had our own garage. We even shot on our pit wall while the races were going on." After months of training, Pitt and Idris got behind the wheels of Formula Two cars designed by Mercedes-AMG that were similar to, yet roughly $14 million cheaper than, their Formula One counterparts. By utilizing the "white space" in each weekend's schedule - 10 minutes here, 15 minutes there - the actors drove on the actual tracks with fans in the stands. The Las Vegas Grand Prix made international headlines when Pitt's stunt double was filmed collapsing on the track in footage that didn't make the movie's final cut. What viewers will see is some of the most breathtaking racing footage ever captured, thanks to new camera technology that could be mounted on 15 positions on each car. The result is the kind of immersive, you-are-there view of racing that you'd expect to see somewhere like Sphere. 'Incredible placement' When Brian Gullbrants saw Wynn Las Vegas on the screen, he put his fists in the air and cheered. This was during the "F1" world premiere with the movie's stars, three-quarters of the current Formula One grid and several thousand other bigwigs at New York's Radio City Music Hall. "My wife looked at me and said, 'Putyourhandsdown,'" recalls Gullbrants, COO North America, Wynn Resorts. "I was so excited." Shortly after arriving in Las Vegas, Pitt's Sonny enters his Encore suite, walks over to the window and stares out at the neighboring Wynn. The scene, which Gullbrants calls "incredible placement in an unbelievable movie," was filmed the Tuesday before the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Director Joseph Kosinski ("Top Gun: Maverick") shot it on the floor where Pitt, the film's other top stars and producers stayed. "With the level of customers that we had and the celebrities that were here and the drivers that were here," Gullbrants says, "we already had all the security details in place. … It went very smoothly. You would never know we were shooting a major motion picture in our hotel while we had all of these people here." He's hopeful "F1 The Movie" will increase interest in the sport in those pockets of the world that haven't yet embraced it and that it ultimately will lead to still more fans coming to the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Gullbrants already had one wish fulfilled when he spotted the Wynn logo in Pitt's hands. Sonny, a somewhat reformed gambler, is rarely without a deck of cards, whether he's flinging them one by one across the room or blindly pulling one to stick in his pocket before a race. He and Idris' Joshua get to know each other during a poker game inside a supper club as they vie for control of the race team. (The club is implied to be Wynn's Delilah, but those scenes were filmed on a soundstage in London.) During the premiere, Gullbrants whispered to his wife how thrilled he was to see Pitt using the Wynn-branded cards he'd given the production, even though he was convinced no one else would notice. "After the movie," Gullbrants says, "five different people at the screening came up and said, 'Wow, it was really great that you got your cards in there, too.' " 'The glamour of Las Vegas' Throughout most of "F1 The Movie," Sonny is presented as something of a cowboy, a lone wolf in a sport that requires teamwork. By the time the action moves to Las Vegas, he's ready to let down his guard, reveal some things about his past and prove he's more than just a beautiful agent of chaos. Such an important scene demands an exceptional location, which is where The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas came in. "They were looking for a room that really captured the glamour of Las Vegas," says Allyson Wadman, associate director of public relations for MGM Resorts International. "Something that was edgy, luxurious and kind of in the middle of all the energy on the Las Vegas Strip." The production found that in a Cosmopolitan suite that has a wraparound balcony overlooking the Fountains of Bellagio and a large section of the Las Vegas Grand Prix course. The thing about such a perfect location, though, is that it's already a hot commodity among high rollers during race week. "We try to be really flexible," Wadman says, "especially when it's a really great opportunity to showcase our property and the city itself." Planning for that shoot began in early 2023, before the strikes by the acting and writing guilds pushed principal photography back a year. When it finally came time to film on that Tuesday night in November, there was more than enough pressure and distraction to go around. "You think about all of the street closures, the grandstands, all of the hundreds of thousands of people," Wadman says. "Operationally, that is already a lot going on for all of the resorts on the Strip." The "F1" team removed light fixtures, rearranged the furniture and applied dark paint over the balcony's white ceiling. "Those small little details of the suite, we were having meetings on meetings," Wadman says. Planning took "countless hours" over the course of several months. 'That world-class scene' Jason Strauss was watching Tiësto perform inside Omnia when the music stopped and the 1,500 or so clubgoers started milling about. Then it happened again. And again. For hours. Three days before the Dutch DJ would play there again while the Las Vegas Grand Prix roared by, the nightclub at Caesars Palace served as a movie set filled with extras. (The club was used again by Rosé for that "Messy" video.) It wasn't the typical Omnia experience, even aside from the stops and starts. The production added its own lights to the club's rigging, making the space brighter than ever. Footage shot in the 12 hours starting at 3 p.m. that Wednesday has been used in the movie's trailers and promotional videos. "It didn't really feel that sexy watching it," says Strauss, co-CEO of Tao Group Hospitality, which owns and operates the club. "But then seeing it in the trailer, it looked (expletive) sexy." Tao Group's parent company, Mohari Hospitality, has long-standing ties to Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time Formula One world champion who's one of the movie's key producers. Tiësto was selected after being on both the production's shortlist of DJs and the Tao Group roster. "This is a major thing for our group," Strauss says, "but it's also a (big) thing for Vegas." The only time you really see Sonny and Joshua out on the town, taking in life away from the track, is when they're in Las Vegas. After that poker game, set the night before the race, Joshua heads to Omnia to unwind. "For them to say, when it comes to nightlife, Vegas has to embody that world-class scene, and of all the nightclubs in Vegas, they chose Omnia," Strauss says, calling it "just a great accolade." Tao Group is developing Omnia outposts around the world, and Strauss sees being tied so closely to Formula One as a huge stamp of approval. Especially when "F1 The Movie" shows Joshua, a hot young driver who can do anything he wants, hanging out there. "Guess what? That's what it is in real life," Strauss says with a confident laugh. "That's why it's going to resonate. It's very authentic." Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
Elle
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
How to Watch ‘F1,' the Brad Pitt Racing Movie Everyone's Talking About
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Brad Pitt returns to the big screen in F1: The Movie, a high-energy racing drama bringing Formula 1 to the masses in the form of a summer blockbuster. Directed by Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, the film debuted internationally on June 25 and is now playing in the U.S. as of today. Set in the world of elite motorsports, F1 follows veteran driver Sonny Hayes (Pitt) as he comes out of retirement to join the fictional APXGP team at the behest of its owner (played by Javier Bardem), his longtime friend. But it's no easy transition, as he clashes with the team's hot new rookie, Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). Kerry Condon and Kim Bodnia round out the cast. In a unique move for a Hollywood film, Pitt and Idris performed their own driving on real circuits, filmed during actual Grand Prix weekends. To achieve a realistic effect, Kosinski and his team used miniature IMAX-certified cameras mounted directly onto the race cars. Pitt described filming as 'one of the most extraordinary' experiences of his career, adding in an F1 interview, 'It's really fun, it's exciting, it's adventurous, and you feel it. I do. I hope others do too.' Kosinski set out to make, as he told GQ, 'the most authentic, realistic, and grounded racing movie ever made.' Here's how to watch it. For now, F1: The Movie is only available in theaters. While Apple has not announced an official streaming release date, the film is expected to arrive on Apple TV+, based on previous Apple releases like Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon. Before then, a digital purchase or rental option is expected. Until then, the only way to experience F1—and Pitt hitting speeds just shy of 200 MPH—is on the big screen. Get Tickets
NZ Herald
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Pitt, Stop: Why Brad's slick F1 flick is a drag
Racer man: Even Brad Pitt can't lift F1: The Movie above the ordinary. Photo / Supplied NZ Listener Arts & Entertainment Editor Russell Baillie has worked at the Listener since 2017 and was previously the editor of the NZ Herald's TimeOut section. F1: The Movie, directed by Joseph Kosinki, is out now. There are big hopes of this doing what Top Gun: Maverick did for the cinema box office in 2022. After all, it's by the same director, and it features an elegantly ageing Hollywood megastar with a winning grin beneath his helmet visor. It also puts him in the cockpit of a fast-moving vehicle and takes us along for the ride. Woo, and indeed, hoo. But Maverick had a couple of decades of fan worship for the original to build on and, well, Tom Cruise. F1: The Movie has 61-year-old Brad Pitt as a race car driver, who, 30-or-so years ago, was Formula 1's Next Big Thing. Recruited into a failing F1 team by an old co-driver and desperate owner played by Javier Bardem, Pitt's Sonny Hayes gets one last chance at glory. That's despite his age – the last F1 driver over the age of 50 was in 1955 – and frankly, his nationality. While doing that, he gets to be not only an unrequited adrenalin junkie but a wise mentor and strategist, just like Cruise's Maverick. But if the story chassis is similar to Top Gun and from many of the same writers, unlike TG:M, F1 never really takes off. Neither does Pitt's performance. And while his fictional F1 team has plenty of whizz-bang tech, its workshop has only a 1D printer for supporting characters. Much of F1 is filmed on tracks during actual F1 seasons in 2023 and 2024, and it's an adequate car-race movie of moderate excitement, but one where it's not clear just who our heroes are trying to beat or why. There are some race team politics involving Bardem's character and Tobias Menzies' board member, but mostly this is a very simple, predictable movie. F1 champ Lewis Hamilton, also a producer who gets a very brief cameo, has described it 'as the most authentic car-racing movie ever made'. Which rather damns a lot of far better car-racing movies and many terrific documentaries about far more colourful F1 drivers. Authentic F1: The Movie may be, but it assumes its audience has never seen F1 before, with an incessant scripted commentary by actual commentators breathlessly explaining things. Helpful things such as being in last place are not ideal. The faux broadcast just shrinks the film to sports television ordinariness, or movie-of-video game contrivance. Though the commentators do offer deep insights about tyres and well, no, mostly tyres. No one leaving F1: The Movie will leave the cinema without a deeper appreciation of where the F1 rubber meets the road. But there's not much else in F1: TM that delivers anything memorable or convincing. Not Pitt's raffish turn as the couldabeen champ who still lives to race but doesn't care in what or for whom. Not his mix of Obi-Wan oversight of, and rivalry with, Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), his young, gifted and black English team mate, who seems based on a young Lewis. And not his fling with the ah, driven, team technical director played by Irish actress Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin). Her sexy boffin romantic interest owes much to the Nicole Kidman character in Days of Thunder, the 1990 Cruise race movie which, like this, was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Still, as the film and its many product placements whizz by, you do have to admire the corporate synergy of it all. The movie is backed by Apple TV+, a streamer vying for future F1 rights. The F1 business, surely the world's least sustainable sports league, will be happy with its US$200 million commercial, every slick but fairly dull, US market-aimed 156 minutes of it. It does have its moments, usually involving Pitt's Hayes making a brilliant tactical move verging on cheating. Afterwards, repeatedly, the track-cleaning crew comes out to clear the debris and sweep up the sports movie clichés that keep getting stuck in those tyres. Rating out of five: ★★½
Forbes
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
How ‘F1: The Movie' Compares To Actual F1 Racing
Brad Pitt, stars as Sonny Hayes, a driver of the fictional Apex APXGP F1 team in F1: The Movie. ... More (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) F1: The Movie, starring Brad Pitt, is a summer adrenaline rush, but does it accurately depict what F1 racing is all about? Let's get this out of the way: F1: The Movie is the kind of action-packed fun you'd expect of a summer blockbuster. If you've never followed Formula 1 racing or only briefly known about it, like Netflix's Drive To Survive, it may be your gateway into becoming a fan. As Top Gun ultimately became a commercial tool for recruiting people into the Navy, F1: The Movie is pure Hollywood, designed to market F1 to the masses. WARNING: SPOILERS For fans of F1, those who race, and the media that covers it, F1: The Movie could come as a disappointment. Where movies like the 1966 John Frankenheimer classic Grand Prix, or more recently Ron Howard's Rush, feel more parts documentary combined with drama, F1: The Movie is one part Days Of Thunder, one part The Natural, and one part Major League. The storyline and the reality of what happens behind the scenes and on the track in Formula 1 begin at the start and don't end until the credits. What is irrefutably compelling and will keep most race fans engaged is the eye-popping on-track sequences and state-of-the-art camera placement that not only makes one feel like they're on the cars, but inside the eyes of the principal racing characters in the film. Given that sign-off came from the FIA, F1, Liberty Media, with Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff producing, the movie's incredible backdrop of actual race weekend access with real drivers like Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclec, and more in cameos, gives the feel of it being at the F1 race schedule. In at least one scene, the movie recreates Lewis Hamilton's 2023 Mexico Grand Prix overtake of Charles Leclerc, replacing Hayes for Hamilton. Directed by Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski, Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, an aged driver that was seen as an F1 prodigy with Lotus in the '90s but due to a tragic accident at the 1993 Spanish GP, has become washed up (somehow Pitt's outstanding driving as part of the winning the LMGT3 class at the 24 Hours of Daytona in the opening scenes keeps him labeled as 'washed up', but I digress). Now living out of a van, Hayes gets contacted by F1 team owner Rubin Cervantes, played by Javier Bardem, about a seat opening with his struggling fictitious APXGP team. From the jump, this is where Hollywood and reality diverge. Pitt is box office gold. Perhaps it's the lack of young action stars, but Pitt's role is following in the footsteps of Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise, as older stars still make moviegoers believe they can excel far beyond their prime. Pitt is age 61. While he's spent time behind the wheel in race cars – most recently taking laps in the 2023 MCL60 McLaren F1 car at Circuit Of The Americas (COTA) – the notion that Pitt would ever be in the shape needed to race at the top levels required for Formula 1 is a fantastic leap. The current trend is to pluck drivers in their teens from F2 and develop them. Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso is currently the oldest driver on the grid at 43. Hence, the analogy of Robert Redford's role as Roy Hobbs in 1984's The Natural comes to mind: a young prodigy is beset by tragedy and emerges as an aged athlete to resurrect their career. While the analytics and high-tech aspects of Formula 1 are touched on, the actual race strategy falls into the realm of the 'wild maverick upends the team and F1 with his driving antics.' Early on, Pitt's Sonny Hayes makes intentional contact with other cars and the barriers to purposely bring out the safety car to help teammate Joshua Pearce, played by Damson Idris, get the inferior APXGP car closer to the pack on restarts. If the FIA stewards are trigger-happy with doling out penalties in the real F1, Hayes and the APXGP team would be suspended and fined off the grid. At one point, Hayes pits for a tire change, and refuses to leave the box when the team has opted for a hard tire strategy over the driver's stubborn demand for softs. A full 30 seconds later, the team relents, Hayes gets his softs, and off he goes. No driver could do this and not be sent packing the second they were out of the car. While F1: The Movie is going to be a great marketing vehicle to bring in fans, for the industry, it plays hard against the role of women in the paddock. It's Brad Pitt. It's a summer blockbuster. Like the aforementioned Days Of Thunder, there has to be a love interest, and it's here that the plot sees Hayes and APXGP technical director Kate McKenna, played by Irish actor Kerry Condon, make the connection. While there have been cases of personnel that work with drivers form romantic relationships (in IndyCar the late Dan Wheldon married Susie Behm who worked for Keystone Marketing doing PR work for Jim Beam, which sponsored his car at the time), the notion that a romantic fling between a driver and technical director would be completely off-limits. And early in the racing sequences, tire-gunner Jodie, played by Callie Cooke, makes what seems like a rookie mistake that only the sage male lead in Pitt can help her overcome her lack of confidence and shine. It's here that the movie undermines F1's efforts to lure women into the sport. It may all play well on the screen with regular moviegoers, but it does a disservice to F1's sincere efforts to bring diversity to the paddock. So, is F1: The Movie like the real Formula 1? Of course not. It is a highly entertaining movie that, due to the incredible driving scenes, is a must-see at the theater. It has a chance at being one of – if not the – top box office draws of the summer. It will undoubtedly make new fans of Formula 1 and open-wheel racing, which is great for the sport. However, the movie is anything but documentary material. If F1: The Movie is the gateway drug to the world of Formula 1, the education of these new fans will be a long-standing part of the equation.
