New Movie Trailer: F1 starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris





Damson Idris is about to be a movie star. The 33-year-old actor from London stars opposite Brad Pitt in F1, a high-stakes blockbuster with a reported budget in excess of $300 million USD from the director (Joseph Kosinski) and producer (Jerry Bruckheimer) behind Top Gun: Maverick. Not only is this by far the biggest movie of Idris’s ascendant career, but it’s also among the most expensive productions of Pitt’s long tenure in Hollywood.
 


 




Apple announced on Friday that it had signed a five-year deal to bring Formula 1 exclusively to Apple TV in the U.S. The deal had been rumored for a while, but now it’s official: Apple just landed one of the world’s most popular—and fastest-growing—sports.

As Apple continues to build out its Apple TV subscription, sports are the obvious place to turn. Apple has dabbled in sports with its MLS package and Friday Night MLB, but this is different. In fact, buried in the press release was something I didn’t expect: Some of it will be free.

Specifically, the company says all practice sessions and select races will be available in the Apple TV app, even for people who don’t pay for an Apple TV subscription. That might sound small, but it completely changes what this deal is really about. Apple didn’t just buy the rights to show F1 races in the U.S., it’s using them to build a funnel.
 
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