Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that it will be premiering Apple’s upcoming “F1” film in more IMAX theaters than originally planned. The studio decided to offer additional IMAX screenings due to “overwhelming popularity” for the film so far, with the initial 25 screenings that it offered all sold out.
Start your engines! Due to overwhelming popularity, with sold-out screenings in 25 markets across the globe, Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX are expanding their Fan-First Premiere Screenings of Apple Original Films’ F1® The Movie to 400 IMAX locations worldwide. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, May 21, for available IMAX-exclusive June 23 screenings—one night only at 7:00 p.m. local time—as well as for all available showtimes of the film when it starts roaring into theaters later that week.
Tickets for the early IMAX screenings and general showings go on sale starting today, May 21.
The film promises to be a blockbuster summer tentpole film, as Brad Pitt stars as an F1 driver who was an up-and-coming talent, until an accident on the track nearly ended his career in the ’90s. Thirty years later, Pitt is invited to join a former teammate’s struggling F1 team.
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.
The film is said to be Apple most expensive film to date, with a production budget of over $300 million.
The film also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, and Javier Bardem. The film was shot during actual Grand Prix weekends.
The film is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who is best-known for “Tron: Legacy” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”
F1: The Movie will stream on Apple TV+ at a later date. In the U.S., Apple TV+ costs $9.99 per month, or $99 per year. The streaming service is available through the Apple TV app on a wide variety of devices, and at tv.apple.com, with a free seven-day trial available.