UPDATE: 2025/06/29 08:30 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN
F1 Debuts Barely Greater 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 Prime Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski and stars Brad Pitt as fictional Method 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 throughout the reign of the live-action remake of Learn how to Prepare 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 the most effective 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 Learn how to Prepare 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 barely 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 Prime 3, as a substitute seeing it debut at No. 4. See the total Prime 5 chart for the weekend beneath:
#
Title
3-Day Complete
Cumulative (Home)
1
F1: The Film
$55.6 million
$55.6 million (weekend 1)
2
Learn how to Prepare 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 lots of motion on the Prime 5 basically, Pixar’s Elio has remained stalwart at No. 3 with a not-bad 49% drop throughout its sophomore weekend. Nonetheless, its $42.2 million home complete and cumulative worldwide complete of $73 million pale compared to its large reported funds 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 continues to be the worst for the franchise by far. It’s dropping from its debut place at No. 2 all the best way right down to No. 5, rushing previous Elio, which beforehand debuted behind it.
With two new titles becoming a member of the Prime 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 Ultimate 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 Funds
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 to date, it is going to additionally develop into one of many 15 highest-grossing home motion pictures of the 12 months 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.
Nonetheless, the discharge nonetheless has a solution to climb. The reported funds of F1: The Film is $200 million. Usually, motion pictures have to earn again two and a half occasions their budgets with a purpose to break even in theaters, which implies that it’d have to surpass $500 million worldwide with a purpose to be thought of worthwhile in theaters.
Solely three Hollywood motion pictures (A Minecraft Film, Lilo & Sew, and Mission: Unattainable – The Ultimate Reckoning) have surpassed that milestone to date in 2025, and every of them had the next opening weekend than F1: The Film ($162.7 million, $146 million, and $64 million respectively).
Nonetheless, 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 probably on monitor to succeed even when it would not fairly hit $500 million.
Our Take On The Weekend Field Workplace
Household Motion pictures Are No Longer Dominating The Summer season
Whereas M3GAN 2.0 just isn’t displaying as a lot promise as its preliminary projections (which had it opening round $30 million), the success of F1: The Film offers the summer season its first adult-oriented hit. The chart has been dominated by Lilo & Sew and Learn how to Prepare Your Dragon since Memorial Day, so the reign of household motion pictures has now ended.
The success of F1: The Film might 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 Incredible 4: First Steps, with solely the PG-rated Smurfs and the R-rated I Know What You Did Final Summer season shaking issues up after they premiere concurrently on July 18.
Signal Up
Supply: Deadline
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
Damson Idris
Joshua ‘Noah’ Pearce
