F1 Is Brad Pitt's Highest Grossing Film of All Time, Overtaking World War Z

F1 is simply a smash deed — and it turns retired that it was besides a large milestone for its star, Brad Pitt. The movie is inactive sidesplitting astatine the worldwide container office, and has present surpassed $540 cardinal to go Pitt’s highest grossing movie of each time.

The actor’s 2013 movie World War Z primitively held that title, with a coagulated $540 cardinal worldwide gross. But F1 has present amassed a whopping $545 cardinal successful the six weeks since it debuted successful theaters, which pushes Pitt’s zombie movie to the 2nd slot.

F1 is besides Apple's astir palmy theatrical release. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon lone ended up grossing $218 cardinal worldwide and Martin Scorsese’s impeccable thriller-drama Killers of the Flower Moon came location with $157 cardinal globally. The racing movie is the biggest merchandise for an Apple movie ever, truthful it’s benignant of chill that it’s besides Pitt’s astir palmy task to date.

That said, it is besides a spot insane that F1 and World War Z were Pitt’s champion projects financially — simply due to the fact that of the longtime household sanction that helium is. It’s a spot nuts to deliberation that he’s ne'er cracked the $1 cardinal people with 1 of his films, but he’s besides ne'er been successful a superhero movie either (also benignant of crazy). The antheral has been successful a lot of palmy films, truthful this conscionable goes to show.

F1 is inactive successful immoderate theaters but volition decidedly extremity up connected Apple TV+ astatine immoderate point. If we had to guess, it mightiness conscionable thrust its mode onto the streamer by the extremity of the year. After all, who doesn’t wanna ticker immoderate cars spell accelerated implicit the vacation break?

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.