{"id":146615,"date":"2025-07-02T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/brad-pitt-f1-director-on-filming-at-abu-dhabi-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:49:24","slug":"brad-pitt-f1-director-on-filming-at-abu-dhabi-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/brad-pitt-f1-director-on-filming-at-abu-dhabi-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt, ‘F1’ Director on Filming at Abu Dhabi Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe Abu Dhabi<\/a> Film Commission and Creative Media Authority has launched a brief promotional video highlighting how the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and Yas Marina Circuit offered a reasonably distinctive filming surroundings for\u00a0\u201cF1: The Movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCameras rolled on the \u201cF1\u201d film, starring Brad Pitt<\/a> and directed by Joseph Kosinski, through the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December 2024 on the Yas Marina Circuit. A crew comprising Pitt and co-star Damson Idris spent a complete of 29 days filming within the emirate throughout three separate events, supported by native manufacturing companion Epic Films, in keeping with a press release.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cF1,\u201d which is touted as the primary movie to seize on monitor footage throughout a stay Grand Prix race, additionally filmed at different precise Formula 1 occasions such because the British Grand Prix, the Rolex 24 at Daytona in addition to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the video (which you’ll watch above), Kosinski calls the Yas Marina Circuit on Yas Island, simply east of Abu Dhabi \u2013 which\u00a0is believed to be the most costly Formula One Track ever constructed \u2013 an \u201cideal place to film\u201d as a result of it\u2019s \u201csuch a distinct setting in such a beautiful location.\u201d Kosinski goes on to level out that \u201call 10 teams [in the race] allowed us to shoot a scene for an hour\u201d which was \u201ca really incredible experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cF1,\u201d govt producer Tim Bampton underlined the truth that \u201cbringing in a major movie production to create an 11th team in the pit lane was a really unprecedented endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had every car in their team,\u201d famous Pitt who referred to as it \u201cjust amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, after Yas Marina hosted the Middle East premiere of \u201cF1: The Movie\u201d on June 26, the movie has been performing effectively within the area. Most notably, it has overperformed within the United Arab Emirates, scoring a roughly $2.7 million first body that’s being touted as the largest opening within the emirate for an Apple film and likewise for Pitt and Kosinski.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbu Dhabi has been stepping up efforts to lure extra movie and TV shoots<\/a>\u00a0to the United Arab Emirates\u2019 capital\u00a0by enhancing its new rebate, which is now set to succeed in as much as 50% of certified below-the-line spend beginning in January.<\/p>\n

\n\tMajor Hollywood productions which have shot in Abu Dhabi over the previous decade embrace \u201cDune: Part Two,\u201d \u201cMission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning Part One,\u201d \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens,\u201d \u201c6 Underground\u201d and \u201cFurious 7,\u201d in addition to Bollywood hits comparable to \u201cVikram Vedha,\u201d \u201cTiger Zinda Hai\u201d and \u201cBharat.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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