By Popular Demand, Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX ® Expand Their Fan-First Premiere Screenings of Apple Original Films' Summer Event Feature F1 ® The Movie to 400 IMAX Theaters Worldwide

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 June 23 Fan-First Premiere Screenings in IMAX can be found HERE. Check local theater listings for available showtimes on June 25 and beyond and don't miss the most authentic racing film of all time, filmed for IMAX: F1 ® The Movie.
From Apple Original Films and the filmmakers from Top Gun: Maverick comes the high-octane, action-packed feature film F1 ® The Movie, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, seven-time FORMULA 1 ® world champion Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman.
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.
F1 ® The Movie also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, and Javier Bardem, and was shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competed against the titans of the sport.
Kosinski directs from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, story by Kosinski & Kruger. The film is executive produced by Daniel Lupi. Collaborating with Kosinski behind the scenes are his creative team, including director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designers Mark Tildesley and Ben Munro, editor Stephen Mirrione, costume designer Julian Day, casting director Lucy Bevan and composer Hans Zimmer.
Apple Original Films and Warner Bros. Pictures Present A Monolith Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer / Plan B Entertainment / Dawn Apollo Films Production, A Joseph Kosinski Film, F1 ® The Movie, distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in theaters and IMAX nationwide on June 27, 2025 and internationally beginning 25 June 2025.

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