It’s safe to say 2025 was one of the most successful years of Brad Pitt’s career. He starred in F1, which went on to become the highest-grossing movie of his career with over $600 million at the global box office. Following a successful run in theaters, F1 has gone on to become the most-watched movie on Apple TV by a mile, even outlasting newer arrivals like Eternity (starring Elizabeth Olsen). Pitt is also back in the spotlight in 2026 with the release of his new action-adventure movie, Heart of the Beast, which comes from director David Ayer. The film was recently set for release in theaters on September 25, and if it’s any indication about how good the cast and crew feel about it, David Ayer chose to work on Heart of the Beast over reuniting with Jason Statham for The Beekeeper 2.
Before F1 arrived in theaters last year, Brad Pitt’s highest-grossing movie of his career was World War Z, which scored over $540 million at the global box office. Not only was World War Z the highest-grossing movie of Pitt’s career, it’s still the highest-grossing zombie movie ever made. World War Z was recently added to Paramount Plus around the world, and the film wasted no time jumping to the top of streaming charts as one of the most-watched movies in the world. The film holds average scores of 67% from critics and 72% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, but that didn’t stop fans around the world from going to see it in theaters upon its premiere in 2013. What makes the success of World War Z that much more impressive is that Brad Pitt is the only major star in the film — James Badge Dale, Mireille Enos, and Daniella Kertesz feature alongside him in the post-apocalyptic thriller.
What Is ‘World War Z’ About?
World War Z follows a former United Nations employee, Gerry Lane (played by Brad Pitt), who travels the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that threatens to destroy the entire world. World War Z is based on the novel of the same name by Max Brooks, and a talented team of scribes consisting of J. Michael Straczynski, Damon Lindelof, Drew Goddard, and Matthew Michael Carnahan wrote the script with Mark Forster directing. Forster recently worked with Tom Hanks on the 2022 film, A Man Called Otto.
Check out World War Z on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Pitt’s future projects.
- Release Date
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June 21, 2013
- Runtime
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116 minutes
- Director
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Marc Forster
- Writers
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Damon Lindelof, Drew Goddard, Matthew Michael Carnahan, J. Michael Straczynski, Max Brooks
- Producers
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Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Ian Bryce, Jeremy Kleiner




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