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Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
F1's $293M 10-Day Haul Lands Apple Its First Box Office Smash, Giving Formula 1 Huge U.S. Visibility
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) racing drama 'F1 the Movie' roared into theaters, generating an impressive $144 million in global revenue, which included $55.6 million in North America, making it the tech company's biggest opening ever for an original film. After 10 days, it has amassed $293 million — amongst Pitt's highest-grossing movies — according to Screen Rant. Footage included real Formula 1 cars, immersive paddock access shot at actual F1 races. Its success could have changed the fortunes for both the sport in the U.S. and Apple+, Deadline reports. Don't Miss: Warren Buffett once said, "If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die." $100k+ in investable assets? – no cost, no obligation. Once considered a niche sport, F1 has gradually gained widespread public recognition. Liberty Media (NASDAQ:LLYVK) and Delta Topco Ltd.'s acquisition of F1 in 2017 and Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) series 'Drive To Survive' reshaped perceptions, paving the way for sold-out races in Miami, Austin, Texas, and Las Vegas—drawing more than a million fans combined, The Wall Street Journal reported. The timing couldn't be better: as the film climbs the box office charts, American interest in F1 is accelerating. According to The Journal, talks are underway for more U.S. races—and perhaps a future American F1 driver to further energize fan engagement. Apple reportedly invested over $200 million in production and marketing, backed by an ambitious distribution strategy that included Imax (NYSE:IMAX) theatrics and cross-promotion during the company's Worldwide Developers Conference. Imax took the lead, generating $28 million globally —19% of total revenue — and demonstrated premium viewing demand, even with higher ticket prices — $19.51, on average, according to Business Insider. Trending: BlackRock is calling 2025 the year of alternative assets. Before this win, Apple's theatrical track record was shaky. Major titles like 'Argylle,' 'Fly Me to the Moon,' and even Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' underperformed, prompting Apple to reevaluate its investments in movies. Although F1's success or failure won't make or break Apple, which is worth over $3 trillion, it marks a tremendous boost for its film division and a validation of the company's all-inclusive philosophy. 'We could bring some things that are uniquely Apple to the movie, like our camera technology. And we plan to have the whole of the company support it as well — our retail operation and everything,' CEO Tim Cook told Variety.' So it was something that we could get the entire company around. It feels wonderful to be a part of it. Apple should have something that we pour our passion into, and that's exactly what we're doing with the shows. And now you can see us hitting a stride. It feels wonderful.'Apple has several other potential wins in the pipeline. The Los Angeles Times reports that Apple has already secured another Kosinski-Bruckheimer collaboration —the director/producer team behind 'F1: The Movie' — about UFOs. The Spike Lee-directed Denzel Washington thriller, "Highest 2 Lowest,' is another of the company's big-name projects. However, it will receive a limited theatrical release before becoming available to stream. The company has renewed the popular soccer series "Ted Lasso" for another season. The spy/ thriller series 'Slow Horses' starring Gary Oldman will premiere its fifth season in the fall. However, a bona fide theatrical hit has eluded the company until now. Cook stresses that it was not a prerequisite when forming the movie division of the company. 'We studied it for years before we decided to do [Apple TV+],' he told Variety. 'I know there's a lot of different views out there about why we're into it. We're into it to tell great stories, and we want it to be a great business as well. That's why we're into it, just plain and simple.' Read Next: Over the last five years, the price of gold has increased by approximately 83% — Investors like Bill O'Reilly and Rudy Giuliani are using this platform to Image: Shutterstock UNLOCKED: 5 NEW TRADES EVERY WEEK. Click now to get top trade ideas daily, plus unlimited access to cutting-edge tools and strategies to gain an edge in the markets. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? APPLE (AAPL): Free Stock Analysis Report TESLA (TSLA): Free Stock Analysis Report This article F1's $293M 10-Day Haul Lands Apple Its First Box Office Smash, Giving Formula 1 Huge U.S. Visibility originally appeared on © 2025 Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
Scotsman
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Film Reviews: The Shrouds F1: The Movie
Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The Shrouds (15) ★★★★☆ F1 the Movie (12A) ★★★☆☆ Hot Milk (15) ★★☆☆☆ Diane Kruger and Vincent Cassel in David Cronenberg in The Shroud Even with a new generation of acolytes nipping at his heels, David Cronenberg still seems intent on breaking fresh ground when it comes to exploring the twisted relationship between the corporate and the corporeal. In the case of The Shrouds, though, 'fresh' is a relative term given the way necrotic flesh is baked into its very premise. Revolving around a new technology that enables the bereaved to grieve their deceased loved ones by live-streaming their rotting remains, the film opens with a character asking the question, 'How dark do you want to go?' and proceeds to answer it with an unsettling exploration of love, sex, death and grief in a culture where technology is consistently used to disrupt the natural order of things. Even with a new generation of acolytes nipping at his heels, David Cronenberg still seems intent on breaking fresh ground when it comes to exploring the twisted relationship between the corporate and the corporeal. In the case of The Shrouds, though, 'fresh' is a relative term given the way necrotic flesh is baked into its very premise. Revolving around a new technology that enables the bereaved to grieve their deceased loved ones by live-streaming their rotting remains, the film opens with a character asking the question, 'How dark do you want to go?' and proceeds to answer it with an unsettling exploration of love, sex, death and grief in a culture where technology is consistently used to disrupt the natural order of things. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Vincent Cassel takes the lead as Cronenberg proxy Karsh, a director of industrial videos turned tech entrepreneur who has developed the aforementioned system in the wake of his beloved wife's painful death from breast cancer. The latter, played by Diane Kruger, appears in flashbacks that Cronenberg presents as eroticised dream sequences showing her disease-ravaged body slowly failing her. These sexualised memories are a source of comfort for Karsh, as are the high resolution thermal imaging scans of her interred body decomposing in the special video-and-software-equipped graveyard he's in the process of franchising. When Karsh spots some unusual nodes on his dead wife's skeleton, however, he becomes suspicious about the surgeon who operated on her – a suspicion fuelled by his paranoid sister-in-law, also played by Kruger, as well as by the subsequent targeted vandalism of his facility, including the hacking of his clients' (and his own) encrypted data. Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in F! The Movie. Picture: Scott Garfield/Warner Bros/Apple Here Cronenberg weaves in corporate conspiracy elements, a mischievous AI avatar (Kruger again), a twitchy tech nerd (Guy Pearce) and a lot of mordant humour to create the impression that The Shrouds is some kind of quasi biotech thriller. That the film doesn't satisfy as such, though, is perhaps the point. Ruminate on it for a while and these elements seem like intentional red herrings, a way of symbolising how culture avoids confronting the physical toll dying takes on the body — something the The Shrouds, in it's own gnarly and heightened way, certainly can't be accused of doing. In much the same way that the 1990 Tom Cruise NASCAR movie Days of Thunder was conceived and marketed as Top Gun on wheels, F1 the Movie is really Top Gun Maverick on wheels, just with Brad Pitt instead of Cruise in the driving seat. Sharing the same director (Joseph Kosinski), producer (Jerry Bruckheimer) and storyline, the film uses its Formula 1 backdrop to deliver a precision-engineered sports movie that hits every expected beat. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Thus we have Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a one-time contemporary of Ayrton Senna who flamed out before fulfilling his potential and is now living an itinerant life as a remarkably well-preserved 60-something high-speed racing driver for hire. Drifting around the country like the motor racing equivalent of Jack Reacher or the Littlest Hobo, he's happy enough – until Javier Bardem's former colleague-turned-F1 Team owner Ruben rocks up in need of a gifted driver to help his financially troubled operation get some points on the board to avoid bankruptcy. Arriving at Silverstone full of cowboy swagger, Sonny immediately finds himself clashing with the team's fame-chasing, cocksure rookie, Joshua Pierce (Damson Idris), whose nose is out of joint at having an old-timer come in an steal his thunder. Kinetic action scenes and intergenerational conflict duly ensue, the former more entertaining than the latter thanks to Kosinski's talent for figuring out visceral, immersive shots over his somewhat limited ability to capture the nuances of human drama. That said Kerry Condon makes the most of a thinly written character to provide some spark as the team's lead engineer and love interest for Pitt. As undeniably thrilling as some of the race scenes are, though, the bloated two-and-a-half-hour runtime takes the film perilously close to replicating the tedium of watching an entire F1 race from start to finish. Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps in Hot Milk Adapted from Debrah Levy's literary bestseller of the same name, Hot Milk is a fairly soporific drama about a young woman (Emma Mackey) finding herself while accompanying her wheelchair-bound mother (Fiona Shaw) to a Spanish clinic to get treatment for the possibly psychosomatic condition that's robbed her of the ability to walk for most of her life. Freighted with Freudian tension, the controlling mother-daughter relationship is – despite the best efforts of the cast – dully rendered. Ditto Mackey's character's exploration of her sexuality with a local seamstress who has a dark family secret of her own (she's played by Vicky Krieps). Indeed writer/director Rebecca Lenkiewicz struggles throughout to transpose Levy's rich text to the screen in visually arresting ways, building to a provocative ending that's not convincing in the least.
Buzz Feed
01-07-2025
- Automotive
- Buzz Feed
Charles Leclerc Lando Norris F1 Drivers Take American Driving Test
SEND IT! To celebrate F1 the Movie, we had real F1 drivers — Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Lando Norris, Isack Hadjar, Esteban Ocon, Yuki Tsunoda, Oliver Bearman, Pierre Gasly, Jack Doohan, and Gabriel Bortoleto — take this quiz to see if they could pass a US driving test, with questions taken from real practice tests from California, New York, and more. And yes, MPH and "feet" were two of the hardest things they had to overcome in these questions, LOL. So, how did they do?! Watch the video below to see it all: And now it's YOUR turn! Think you can beat these real Formula One drivers in a US driving test? Take the quiz for yourself now: How did you do? Share your score in the comments below! And be sure to catch F1 the Movie, which is in theaters now!
BBC News
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Working with stars like Brad Pitt 'a privilege' says film extra
A local film extra has described his delight at starring in a major Hollywood production alongside Brad Pegler, from Winterbourne Bassett near Swindon, appears in F1 the Movie as a race scrutineer and as a pit production, which was partially filmed at Silverstone during the 2023 Grand Prix weekend, sees Brad Pitt as an ageing racing driver looking to recreate former glories, having been forced into retirement years Pegler said that it was a privilege to appear alongside the stars in such a large production. "I stood next to Javier Bardem for one scene, and near Mr Pitt. I did say hello to him on a couple of occasions."(I was) fairly close to everything and everybody. "I think with people like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise and the like, they've got a presence, and that was evident. And he's still a good looking boy at 60 something", he Pegler also described how the production was filmed in the midst of a busy race weekend."It's as everything's going on. Through race weekend, they're fitting all the scenes in around what's going on." In contrast to other films and TV shows he has been involved in, he said that the amount of money spent on the film was "crazy"."There were 60 background extras. We were on a reasonable whack for the film, and just that budget alone for the background is huge. "You can't possibly imagine the figures for the whole production."Mr Pegler says that he will watch the film, which has already been released in the UK, with a couple of friends at the cinema in Marlborough.
Geek Culture
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
'F1 the Movie' Revs To US$144 Million Global Debut; '28 Years Later' Hits Franchise Best With US$103M
Apple Original Films and Warner Bros. Pictures' F1 the Movie is racing towards massive success, garnering a US$144 million global box office over its opening weekend, marking the biggest opening to date for an Apple film. Following along this momentum, Danny Boyle and Sony's post-apocalyptic threequel, 28 Years Later , has also risen to become the franchise's biggest grosser at US$103 million worldwide, after receiving an additional US$13.7 million from 63 overseas markets after its second weekend. The success of F1 the Movie comes as no surprise, owing to the popularity of Formula 1 across the globe, marking the biggest opening weekend for an Apple title across Europe as a region, including topping most markets in Asia. The film also presents the first commercial win for Apple, after notable big-screen underperformers like 2023's Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon , or 2024's Argylle . F1 follows an ageing American racing driver and former Formula 1 prodigy named Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), who returns to the sport after a 30-year absence to save his former teammates' underdog APXGP F1 team from collapse. The film was directed by Joseph Kosinski ( Top Gun: Maverick ) and made in collaboration with the FIA, the governing body of F1, and featured real-life F1 teams and drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, who was also a producer. 28 Years Later , on the other hand, marks the third instalment in the 28 Days Later film franchise, and like its namesake, is set almost three decades after the second Rage Virus outbreak as seen in 2007's 28 Weeks Later , and follows survivors Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and his son Spike (Alfie Williams), who embark on a dangerous journey to the mainland from their village community for a coming-of-age ritual. In other box office news, Universal's live-action How to Train Your Dragon continues to fly high, adding US$32 million globally in its third weekend and earning US$454 million worldwide to date. M3GAN 2.0 , on the other hand, saw a downgrade with its disappointing US$17 million launch weekend earnings, falling short of the 2023 original's box office launch of US$45 million globally. Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. 28 Years Later box office F1 F1 The Movie
