Brad Pitt brought Joseph Kosinski’s Formula One drama to Leicester Square for its European premiere, with Lewis Hamilton as producer and Tom Cruise among the guests.
Brad Pitt, an Academy Award winner, brought F1 The Movie to Cineworld Leicester Square in the West End for its European premiere on Monday 23 June 2025. Lewis Hamilton, a producer of the film, joined him.
Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1963, Pitt studied journalism at the University of Missouri and first drew notice in Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise in 1991. His Academy Award came for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Through Plan B, the company he co-founded in 2001, he also won Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave.
In the film he plays Sonny Hayes, a former prodigy brought back thirty years after a career-ending crash to rescue a failing team. Joseph Kosinski directed from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, with Jerry Bruckheimer producing, the team behind Top Gun: Maverick.
Warner Bros. Pictures released the Apple film in British cinemas two days after the premiere. It became the highest-grossing film of Pitt’s career, at more than $634 million worldwide.
Damson Idris and Kerry Condon joined Pitt on the carpet. Tom Cruise made a surprise appearance, and Hans Zimmer, who wrote the score, was also there.