F1 The Movie Speeds to Box Office Victory, but M3GAN 2.0 Struggles Out the Gate

F1 The Movie kicked off with a roaring start at the box office, posting a $55.6 million domestic opening and $88.4 million overseas for a global debut of $144 million. Meanwhile, fellow newcomer M3GAN 2.0 lagged behind with a global launch of $17.158 million, a sharp drop from its predecessor.

F1 The Movie, featuring Brad Pitt racing real F1 cars at breakneck speeds, stands as a rare box office triumph for Apple. F1 is poised to outpace Apple’s prior theatrical releases, including Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.

IGN’s review of F1: The Movie awarded it a 7/10. We said: “F1: The Movie follows the sports movie playbook almost perfectly, finding ways to be just that much better at nearly every stage of its 156-minute runtime — creating a super fun racecar flick in the process that eventually finds its way to victory lane.”

Blumhouse’s M3GAN 2.0 earned $10.2 million domestically and just $6.958 million internationally over its opening weekend, suggesting the original M3GAN movie from December 2022 may have been a lightning-in-a-bottle moment, given its eventual $180 million global total.

IGN’s review of M3GAN 2.0 gave it a 6/10. We said: “M3GAN 2.0 hotswaps horror for sci-fi/action to mixed results, but M3GAN’s absolutely heinous wit and killer moves leave her, and not the new genres, the star of the show.”

Meanwhile, 28 Years Later has now reached $103 million globally after two weekends, becoming the highest-grossing film in the franchise. The live-action How To Train Your Dragon film has amassed an impressive $454.436 million worldwide. Elio, which suffered the worst opening in Pixar history last weekend, continues to struggle—after two weekends, it’s at just $72.3 million.

Disney is thrilled with the live-action Lilo & Stitch movie, however. After just six weekends, it’s pulled in $946 million and remains on track to surpass $1 billion at the box office, especially with school holidays just around the corner.

And for those keeping score, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning stands at $561.99 million after six weekends, Karate Kid: Legends has crossed $100 million globally this weekend, Final Destination Bloodlines has earned $283.3 million, and Sinners has hit $368 million.