F1 The Movie has sped past a major box office milestone. The project, which stars Brad Pitt as Formula One driver Sonny Hayes, is the latest directorial feature from filmmaker Joseph Kosinski, who previously helmed the 2022 smash hit legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, F1 The Movie is projected to end its fourth weekend in theaters by hitting a worldwide box office total of $400 million. This will make it only the ninth movie of 2025 to pᴀss the $400 million global milestone.
Additionally, it has surged past the $399.8 million gross of 2010’s Tron: Legacy to make it the second highest-grossing movie directed by Joseph Kosinski. Tron: Legacy, which is the only other Kosinski-directed sequel outside of Top Gun: Maverick, earned a disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score of 51% but eventually garnered a cult following and spawned the upcoming sequel Tron: Ares.
What This Means For F1 The Movie
It Still Won’t Beat Top Gun: Maverick
Although 2025’s F1 The Movie has become one of the biggest blockbusters in Kosinski’s career, it is more or less impossible for it to climb any higher. The director’s No. 1 movie is Top Gun: Maverick, which grossed $1.454 billion and is currently the 14th highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide.
Considering the fact that the billion-dollar movie’s gross is more than three and a half times the worldwide total of F1, its record seems very secure. Below, see how F1 The Movie compares to Joseph Kosinski’s entire directorial output:
|
Rank |
тιтle |
Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|
|
#1 |
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) |
$1.454 billion |
|
#2 |
F1 The Movie (2025) |
$400 million |
|
#3 |
Tron: Legacy (2010) |
$399.8 million |
|
#4 |
Oblivion (2013) |
$287.9 million |
|
#5 |
Only the Brave (2017) |
$24.5 million |
|
#6 |
Spiderhead (2022) |
N/A (Netflix exclusive) |
One other unfortunate hurdle is that the reported budget of F1 The Movie is $250 million, which could place its estimated theatrical break-even point as high as $625 million.
That is a milestone that it does not seem likely to reach. However, as an Apple Studios production, the movie does not need to turn a profit in theaters in order to be a success.
The theatrical grosses of the company’s output are just the cherry on top of the movies’ eventual streaming performance on Apple TV+, in addition to building strong branding for Apple Studios as well as Apple in general. Therefore, F1 becoming their first movie to ever hit this milestone is still a win.
Our Take On F1 The Movie’s Box Office Milestone
It’s A Huge Success For An Original Movie
In spite of remaining second-best to a record-breaking hit like Top Gun: Maverick, another remarkable thing about F1 The Movie is the fact that the blockbuster has an original screenplay.
F1 The Movie is the highest-grossing original movie of the year, having surpᴀssed Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ($365.9 million), which in turn earned substantially more than the next highest-grossing original 2025 movie, which is Pixar’s Elio ($121.3 million).
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Source: Variety
