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In a summer filled with box office surprises, here's another: F1 becomes Brad Pitt's highest-grossing film as a lead

Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in F1 .

This year has been one of the most unpredictable yet at the box office. Ne Zha 2 still remains the highest-grossing movie of 2025, several Marvel movies have failed to soar at the box office and, now, F1 races past a Brad Pitt box office milestone that we're surprised hasn't been broken before.

F1, which stars Pitt as over-the-hill F1 driver Sonny Hayes alongside up-and-coming APXGP teammate Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), has taken $552 million at the worldwide box office. That is now Pitt's highest-grossing movie as a lead (and discounting the likes of his blink-and-you'll-literally-miss-it cameo as The Vanisher in Deadpool 2).

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