Brad Pitt’s New Report-Breaking Racing Film Dethrones How To Practice Your Dragon


UPDATE: 2025/06/29 08:30 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN

F1 Debuts Barely Increased Than Saturday’s $55M Projections

This text was initially written Saturday AM and has been up to date Sunday AM with up-to-date field workplace projections (in daring), a full chart, and additional evaluation.

F1: The Film has had a record-breaking opening weekend on the home field workplace. The brand new film, which was directed by High Gun: Maverick‘s Joseph Kosinski and stars Brad Pitt as fictional Formulation One driver Sonny Hayes, is a hotly anticipated property that additionally options Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, and Javier Bardem.

The F1: The Film launch kicked off in the course of the reign of the live-action remake of The way to Practice Your Dragon. The DreamWorks film opened on June 13, taking No. 1 on the home field workplace with a 3-day opening weekend of $84.6 million. It additionally topped the chart throughout its sophomore weekend, beating new releases 28 Years Later and Elio.

Per Deadline, as of Sunday morning, F1: The Film is projected to earn a 3-day opening weekend of $55.6 million on the home field workplace. This marks one of the best opening weekend in historical past for an Apple Studios film. On Friday, it had already surged previous the earlier record-holder, 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon (which debuted with $23.2 million).

$55.6 million is greater than sufficient for F1: The Film to topple The way to Practice Your Dragon from the highest spot on the home chart throughout its third weekend. It additionally far exceeds its fellow new launch, which is the Blumhouse killer robotic sequel M3GAN 2.0.

Whereas 2023’s M3GAN was a $180 million smash hit, the sequel is just projected to premiere with $10.2 million, which falls significantly brief in comparison with the unique’s $30.4 million opening weekend and is not even sufficient for it to land within the High 3, as an alternative seeing it debut at No. 4. See the complete High 5 chart for the weekend beneath:

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Title

3-Day Complete

Cumulative (Home)

1

F1: The Film

$55.6 million

$55.6 million (weekend 1)

2

The way to Practice Your Dragon

$19.4 million

$200.5 million (weekend 3)

3

Elio

$10.7 million

$42.2 million (weekend 2)

4

M3GAN 2.0

$10.2 million

$10.2 million (weekend 1)

5

28 Years Later

$9.7 million

$50.3 million (weekend 2)

Whereas there was a number of motion on the High 5 basically, Pixar’s Elio has remained stalwart at No. 3 with a not-bad 49% drop throughout its sophomore weekend. Nevertheless, its $42.2 million home complete and cumulative worldwide complete of $73 million pale compared to its enormous reported price range of $150 million.

In the meantime, the Danny Boyle sequel 28 Years Later had a harsher 68% drop, which isn’t uncommon for the sophomore weekend of a horror launch, however remains to be the worst for the franchise by far. It’s dropping from its debut place at No. 2 all the best way all the way down to No. 5, rushing previous Elio, which beforehand debuted behind it.

With two new titles becoming a member of the High 5, each holdover titles that debuted on Memorial Day weekend have fallen off the chart after remaining there for 5 consecutive weekends. Lilo & Sew has fallen from No. 4 to No. 6 whereas Mission: Unattainable – the Closing Reckoning has fallen from No. 5 to No. 7.

What This Means For F1: The Film

It Is On Observe For Success Regardless of Its Large Price range

The brand new Brad Pitt film is off to a outstanding begin in additional methods than one. Along with being projected to earn the eighth-best home debut of 2025 thus far, it is going to additionally develop into one of many 15 highest-grossing home motion pictures of the yr in a matter of simply three days.

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Joseph Kosinski’s pulse-pounding racing drama F1, which stars Brad Pitt, Kerry Condon, and Damson Idris, concluded with an exhilarating race.

Nevertheless, the discharge nonetheless has a technique to climb. The reported price range of F1: The Film is $200 million. Typically, motion pictures have to earn again two and a half occasions their budgets so as to break even in theaters, which implies that it would have to surpass $500 million worldwide so as to be thought of worthwhile in theaters.

Solely three Hollywood motion pictures (A Minecraft Film, Lilo & Sew, and Mission: Unattainable – The Closing Reckoning) have surpassed that milestone thus far in 2025, and every of them had the next opening weekend than F1: The Film ($162.7 million, $146 million, and $64 million respectively).

Nevertheless, F1: The Film has an ace up its sleeve as a result of, as an Apple Studios manufacturing, it has all the time been meant for an eventual Apple TV+ streaming launch. Because of this its field workplace is a bonus on high of its eventual subscriber income, so it’s seemingly on monitor to succeed even when it does not fairly hit $500 million.

Our Take On The Weekend Field Workplace

Household Motion pictures Are No Longer Dominating The Summer time

Whereas M3GAN 2.0 isn’t exhibiting as a lot promise as its preliminary projections (which had it opening round $30 million), the success of F1: The Film offers the summer time its first adult-oriented hit. The chart has been dominated by Lilo & Sew and The way to Practice Your Dragon since Memorial Day, so the reign of household motion pictures has now ended.

The success of F1: The Film may ignite a run of PG-13 motion pictures taking No. 1, as July will see the arrival of the upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, and The Unbelievable 4: First Steps, with solely the PG-rated Smurfs and the R-rated I Know What You Did Final Summer time shaking issues up after they premiere concurrently on July 18.

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F1

8/10

Launch Date

June 27, 2025

Director

Joseph Kosinski

Writers

Ehren Kruger

Producers

Brad Pitt, Chad Oman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeremy Kleiner, Lewis Hamilton, Joseph Kosinski, Dede Gardner


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