box office<\/a>, including $323.4 million domestically and $242.1 million overseas through Aug. 8. The original action-adventure could ultimately come close to matching Mission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning, which has earned $595 million since its release in late May.<\/p>\n\n\tF1, reuniting Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is perhaps most notable in being a mega-win for Apple Original Films\u2019 foray into theatrical after the tech giant suffered several high-profile box office misses. That includes Martin Scorsese\u2019s big-budget Killers of the Flower Moon, which limped to $158.7 million globally in 2023, not adjusted for inflation. <\/p>\n
\n\tExhibitors need flush new players like Apple, or Amazon MGM Studios, to replenish the pipeline as the legacy studios release fewer films. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cApple, given its incredibly large tech footprint, cultural branding resonance and tremendous financial resources, is the perfect partner for creatives and studios looking to replicate the home run that is F1: The Movie,\u201d says Comscore chief box office analyst Paul Dergerabedian.<\/p>\n
\n\tUnlike Amazon MGM, Apple doesn\u2019t have its own distribution pipeline either domestically or overseas, so must rely on a third-party studio to release its films; in the case of F1, it is Warners, which is also home of DC Studios.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film is doing so well that Apple has abided by a traditional theatrical window, versus reversing course and slapping the film on Apple TV+. Additionally, Imax is rereleasing the action drama on select screens over the Aug. 8-10 weekend before expanding into additional auditoriums on Aug. 15. So far, the pic is Imax\u2019s highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2025 with more than $85 million in ticket sales.<\/p>\n
\n\tF1 the movie is doing staggering business in markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia, including in China, where it has earned $56.1 million to date, among the highest showings of the year for a Hollywood title (Superman has topped at a mere $8.9 million at the Chinese box office).<\/p>\n
\n\tIt remains to be seen whether F1 can ultimately cross the $600 million milestone with the added boost of being made available again in Imax.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAudiences around the world have embraced F1: The Movie as an adrenaline-pumping, big screen experience, and its rerelease in Imax is a testament to the global popularity of the film,\u201d said Matt Dentler, head of features, Apple Original Films. <\/p>\n
\n\tGlobally, F1 ranks No. 8 on the year\u2019s list of top-grossing films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading into summer 2025, no one could have ever imagined that F1: The Movie would drive some of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7214,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-55028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}