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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Brad Pitt Has a Lesson for Formula 1's Green Makeover
Every film star entering their seventh decade knows they've reached an age when they have to play to type. If only venerable sports franchises had the same self-awareness. F1: The Movie, the Brad Pitt/Formula 1 crossover currently in cinemas, illustrates this contradiction perfectly. Pitt used to appear as romantic leads, sword-and-sandals heroes, comedy turns and in art-film roles. As he's aged into his sixties, that range has been boiled down to its original essence, leaving him typecast as a pretty, and increasingly rugged, maverick. Audiences don't seem to mind. F1: The Movie saw the biggest US opening for a Pitt vehicle since 2013's World War Z.
The Hindu
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Brad Pitt's ‘F1' races past $500 million mark, becomes Apple Studios' biggest box office hit
After just over a month in theaters, F1 — the Formula One-themed drama starring Brad Pitt — has crossed $509 million at the global box office, making it one of the most successful original films of the last decade. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), the film is now poised to challenge Pitt's all-time highest-grossing film, World War Z ($531 million). F1 has earned $165 million domestically and $344 million from international markets. With a reported production budget of $300 million — a figure Kosinski has disputed — the film stands as Apple Studios' most profitable theatrical venture to date. It has outperformed the studio's previous releases, including Napoleon ($223 million) and Killers of the Flower Moon ($158 million). The film opened in late June with a $146 million global debut and has maintained momentum despite strong summer competition. Its premium screen rollout and strong overseas response, especially in racing-obsessed markets, helped drive box office success. F1 has been granted an additional theatrical run in China, likely pushing its total even higher in the coming weeks. This is only the second time Pitt has crossed the $500 million threshold in his career, a notable milestone given his selective approach to large-scale franchise films. F1 now ranks among his top five highest-grossing titles. Also starring Kerry Condon, Damson Idris, and Javier Bardem, discussions about a sequel are reportedly underway, and rumors of a crossover with Tom Cruise's Days of Thunder have begun circulating.
India.com
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- India.com
Made for Rs 1,597 crore, earned Rs…, this film became the world's most expensive horror film, still ruling OTT after a decade, has 7.0 IMDb rating, movie is …
There are horror films… and then there's World War Z. Released back in 2013, this chilling thriller took the world by storm—literally. And now, 12 years later, it still holds its ground on streaming platforms, refusing to fade away. The film isn't just a horror ride; it's a warning shot wrapped in chaos. A mysterious virus spreads fast across the globe, turning people into violent, fast-moving zombies. Amid all this destruction is one man, Gerry Lane, played by Brad Pitt, who risks it all to save what's left of the human race. Why has World War Z survived the test of time? Because it feels real. The panic. The fear. The desperation. The movie doesn't give you a moment to breathe, as Gerry travels from country to country chasing a cure, fighting undead armies and impossible odds. Directed by Marc Forster, World War Z combines tight storytelling, nerve-racking action, and eerie music to create a cinematic experience that still manages to shake viewers to their core. Who's in it and what makes it stand out? Besides Brad Pitt, the film features solid performances by Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, and Peter Capaldi. But it's Pitt's intensity and vulnerability that make you root for him. The cinematography, editing, and zombie design take things a notch higher—these aren't your slow-moving zombies. These are fast, deadly, and terrifying. Numbers speak louder than screams Made on a whopping budget of around ₹1,597 crore ($190 million), the film earned more than ₹4,547 crore ($540 million) globally. It proved that even zombie thrillers, when done right, can smash box-office records. Still trending in 2025? World War Z first dropped on OTT in September 2013 via DVD and Blu-ray, and later hit Netflix, Paramount+, and other platforms. Even in 2025, it remains among Netflix's Top 10 most-watched films. The recent rise in zombie-themed shows has brought it back into conversation. Why you should watch it (Again) If you're into fast-paced thrillers, emotional arcs, or simply love zombie lore—this one's a must-watch. And yes, it's available in Hindi too.
Pink Villa
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
F1 Worldwide Box Office Update: Brad Pitt starrer emerges 2nd biggest original film of post Covid era after Oppenheimer, Tops USD 500 Million globally
Brad Pitt's sports drama F1 has been storming the box office ever since it hit the cinemas. The Joseph Kosinski-directed movie is winning hearts all over the world with superlative box office trends. The movie hit another massive milestone globally on Saturday night. F1 zooms past the USD 500 million mark globally Bankrolled by Apple Studios, F1 surpassed the USD 500 million mark at the worldwide box office. Released on June 27, the sports drama took around one month to hit the second half-billion mark for Brad Pitt. Earlier, World War Z achieved this magical milestone and ended up doing USD 540 million globally in its entire run. Since F1 is now set for IMAX re-release on August 8th, the movie has the potential to clock over USD 550 million to USD 600 million by the end of its theatrical run, becoming the biggest grosser of Brad Pitt's career. Box Office collections of F1 so far: F1 turns second highest grossing Original movie post COVID era Standalone movies are facing it tough to strike a chord with the audience in the post-pandemic era. All the big money spinners are either sequels, prequels, or have a strong IP behind them. Breaking all the odds, F1 turned the second-highest-grossing original movie in the last 5 years from Hollywood, after Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. With over USD 975 million lifetime cume, Oppenheimer is currently the highest-grossing standalone movie in the post-COVID era. Though the Brad Pitt starrer will not end up much close to Oppenheimer's glorious run, it still has broken all the existing records for Apple Studios. For the unversed, F1 is the first Apple Studios movie to clock over the USD 300 million mark, the USD 400 million mark, and the USD 500 million mark at the worldwide box office. It still has the potential to gain traction in the coming weeks and end up hitting another milestone of the USD 600 million mark. The movie is performing insanely well in the international markets, especially in China and Korea. Even in India, the Joseph Kosinski directorial has found love and appreciation from the audience and emerged as a blockbuster success, hitting over Rs 100 crore gross mark. Stay tuned to Pinkvilla for more updates. Disclaimer: The box office figures are compiled from various sources and our research. The figures can be approximate, and Pinkvilla does not make any claims about the authenticity of the data. However, they are adequately indicative of the box-office performance of the films in question.
Scoop
21-07-2025
- General
- Scoop
Resilience Or Revolution?
One of the tropes that's been trod to death by pundits and preachers in recent years is the idea of 'resilience.' The meaning of the word falls somewhere between annoying adaptiveness and cloying optimism, which means that resilience refers to nothing substantive at all. AI, which is driving hackneyed thinking and writing like nothing ever before, provides an example of how the idea of resilience is 'nonsense on stilts': 'The 'polycrisis' concept highlights the need for spiritual and psychological resilience.' Resilience used to be a very useful word. It once referred to the ability to bounce back from adversity. In its bastardized usage however, resilience has come to mean personal adaptiveness without regard to socio-political reality. As the saying goes, 'It's no measure of health to be well adapted to a profoundly sick society.' Given the hyper-personal application of the idea of resilience, the word has become a cliché. And the drumbeat of resilience has promoted adaptation at the expense of what's more deeply and urgently necessary -- a revolution. Isn't encouraging 'the psychological quality that allows people to be knocked down by the adversities of life and come back at least as strong as before' incontrovertible? Yes, though isn't a matter of 'the adversities of life,' but the intensifying agonies and angst of a globalized culture, which is completely overwhelming people. Resilience, like resistance, is pointless in the face of the polycrisis. Advertisement - scroll to continue reading There's a fine line between questioning whether the present age is hopeless and quitting on humanity. The momentum of man's ecological and socio-political destructiveness may be too great to change course at this juncture. But if even a few human beings awaken the intelligence of insight, humanity could prevail in the future. And even if man is doomed, quitting on life is not an option, because to quit on life is to become one of the countless walking dead. (There's a reason that the long-running cable series by that name, or movies like 'World War Z' are so popular.) The fashionable idea of resilience is inextricably linked with two other false ideas – choice and agency. Consider this sentence for example, in an article in which the writer argues against the inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), 'which would amount to creating a new species.' (That too is a dubious claim, since however far AI advances, keeping it in its place is necessary now, equivalent to keeping thought in its place, an insight virtually no one else proposing.) 'Technology is the product of deliberate human choices, motivated by myriad powerful forces. We have the agency to shape those forces, and history shows that we've done it before.' 'Agency' means, 'having the power to act independently and make your own choices, free from external control.' Setting aside the tautology, there is no such thing as internal control, and the more we cling to that illusion, the more external forces control us. Agency is just another word for free will, which doesn't exist, because the action of choice through will is never free, but always conditioned (through socialization) within the individual. Socrates tried to point this out 2500 years ago. He rightly said that when we're clear, we don't choose; we act. But the western mind divided choosing and acting, and privileged the illusorily independent self. 'Agency' is just the latest misbegotten product of this long-running mistake and conditioning. Indigenous people didn't have a concept of agency because the individual was correctly viewed as embedded within the group, not some separate entity acting independently of the group. ('Group agency' is an oxymoron because the separate individual remains its cornerstone.) Indigeneity has become 'a thing,' which means that the same western civilization that destroyed innumerable indigenous cultures, and is now in its death throes, is colonizing indigenous traditions for meaning and profit. A couple of years ago talked with a white, wannabe Native American in Michigan who started a retreat center based on indigenous rituals. His center on Lake Michigan has sucked in enough retreatants to make his business profitable. Without a trace of self-awareness, this charlatan told of how current native peoples would sometimes tie a white wannabe Indian to a tree and leave him for hours. To go from the slime to the ridiculous, a writer down under proclaims that 'the global celebration of First Nations artists was a powerful way of showing that modern Australia had thrown off its colonial legacy, had grown into a truly mature and reconciled nation and come to terms with the ancient human heritage that makes it truly unique.' Clearly Americans aren't the only people fond of believing their own bullshit. In short, whether you're Shoshone or white baloney, if you put your identity as x, y or z ahead of our basic, undifferentiated humanness, you're contributing to the fragmentation of the Earth and the destruction of Humanity. The resilience of the self is the death of the spirit. Resilience, to the extent that it implies adaptiveness, precludes psychological revolution. Martin LeFevre - Meditations Scoop Contributor Martin LeFevre is a contemplative and philosopher. His sui generis 'Meditations' explore spiritual, philosophical and political questions relating to the polycrisis facing humanity. lefevremartin77@gmail
