Apple Original Films’ Summer Blockbuster F1: The Movie Accelerates Back Into IMAX
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Carl Roberts 
It’s lights out and away we go..back to IMAX! The summer blockbuster F1: The Movie is speeding its way back into IMAX cinemas.
Apple Original Films’ action-packed, captivating thrill ride “F1® The Movie,” the biggest original box office blockbuster of 2025, is racing back to the biggest screens. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and following its debut as the #1movie at the global box office, “F1® The Movie” will be re-released in IMAX by popular audience demand. Tickets are on sale now for select theatres and showtimes beginning Friday, August 8, 2025. Plans are underway to expand further into IMAX locations and large formats worldwide. The team will announce the details on Friday, August 15th.
FILMED FOR IMAX
Filmed for IMAX and featuring an unparalleled cinematic experience, “F1® The Movie” is the highest-grossing original feature of the year. And recently crossed over $552 million at the global box office, making it Brad Pitt’s highest-grossing feature to date. The film boasts an A CinemaScore, along with a soaring 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. And continues to fuel wide acclaim as the most authentic racing feature ever made. Presented entirely in IMAX-exclusive expanded aspect ratio, “F1® The Movie” is also the highest-grossing Hollywood film of the year in IMAX with $85 million and counting at the global box office. “F1® The Movie” vastly outperformed in IMAX. IMAX screens accounted for 23% of the film’s North American opening weekend and over 19% of its global debut.
MATT DENTLER
“Audiences around the world have embraced ‘F1® The Movie’ as an adrenaline-pumping, big screen experience, and its re-release in IMAX is a testament to the global popularity of the film,” said Matt Dentler, head of features, Apple Original Films. “Joe, Jerry, Brad, Lewis and the visionary team behind ‘F1® The Movie’ have delivered a summer blockbuster that blends heart with action, and we can’t wait to give moviegoers another chance to see it in IMAX.”
JEFF GOLDSTEIN
Jeff Goldstein, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Global Distribution, stated,
“With ‘F1® The Movie,’ audiences around the world headed to theaters in droves to witness FORMULA 1 racing like never before, and it showed at the box office. So, together with our partners at Apple Original Films and IMAX, we jumped at the opportunity to give fans another go-round—or to experience it for the first time—via IMAX’s premiere screens and sound, before summer is over.”
RICH GELFOND
“Every element of ‘F1® The Movie’ — the visuals, the sound, the gripping storytelling anchored by larger-than-life performances — makes excellent use of the IMAX Experience, and it’s no wonder it’s our highest-grossing Hollywood film of the year,” said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. “We know ‘F1® The Movie’ still has plenty of gas in the tank and audiences will come back again to experience it as intended in IMAX.”
BEYOND THE BOX OFFICE
Beyond the box office, “F1® The Movie” has ignited a global music phenomenon with F1® The Album, the star-studded, high-octane soundtrack that has surged past 600,000 albums sold worldwide and is nearing 1 billion global streams. Currently dominating Billboard’s Top Movie Songs chart with seven of the top ten tracks, the album is powered by Tate McRae’s two-time VMA-nominated smash hit “Just Keep Watching.” With over 4 billion views across short-form video platforms, F1® The Album has become a defining music moment of 2025 and a vital part of the film’s cultural impact.
From Apple Original Films and the filmmakers from “Top Gun: Maverick” comes the high-octane feature film “F1® The Movie,” starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, seven-time FORMULA 1® world champion Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman.
PREMISE
Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him, and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.
BEHIND THE CAMERAS
Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”) directs and produces the feature alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films. And Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment. And Lewis Hamilton under his Dawn Apollo Films banner. The film has been produced in partnership with Formula 1® and the F1 community, encompassing the 10 F1 teams, their drivers, the FIA, and race promoters. Academy Award-nominee Ehren Kruger (“Top Gun: Maverick”) writes the screenplay. Copper CEO Penni Thow serves as executive producer.
APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS
Momentum around the Apple Original Films slate has continued to grow since the debut of Apple TV+ four years ago. In addition to Apple making history as the first streaming service to land the Academy Award for Best Picture with “CODA.” Apple Original Film “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” also recently earned the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. And “Killers of the Flower Moon” landed 10 historic Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
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F1: The Movie returns to IMAX cinemas on August 8th.
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