An Apple Original Films title is heading to the big screen for the sixth time with the June 27, 2025 release of Joseph Kosinski‘s Formula 1 movie starring Brad Pitt. Warner Bros. has won the rights to handle both domestic and overseas. This follows Paramount releasing Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon ($157M WW), Universal with Argylle ($96.2M WW), and Sony with Napoleon ($221.3M WW), Fly Me to the Moon (July 12), and Wolfs (Sept. 20).
As Deadline first told you the F1 package was snapped up by Apple for $130 million-$140 million, before above-the-line compensation.
Pic will get a June 25, 2025 offshore release. Imax venues are included in the mix for the latest from the Top Gun: Maverick filmmaker and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment is also producer with 7x F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton’s Dawn Apollo Films banner. The movie was made in collaboration with Formula 1, with filming taking place at races on the sport’s calendar.
Pitt plays a former driver who returns to Formula 1, alongside Damson Idris as his teammate at APXGP, a fictional team on the grid, the feature has been shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competes against the titans of the sport. Also starring are Academy Award-nominee Kerry Condon, Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem, and Emmy Award-winner, Golden Globe Award nominee Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia and Samson Kayo.
Kosinski 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. Academy Award-nominee Ehren Kruger (Top Gun: Maverick) penned the screenplay. Copper CEO Penni Thow serves as executive producer.
