Don’t Look Back in Anger reaches cinemas tomorrow

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger opens in select IMAX venues and cinemas across the United Kingdom and Ireland on 9 September 2026. The documentary charts the band’s 2025 reunion tour, Oasis Live ’25.

Created and written by Steven Knight and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the film gathers rehearsal, backstage and onstage footage from twelve concerts across three continents. It includes never-before-seen material from an Oasis live rehearsal and the first joint interview with Liam and Noel Gallagher in more than twenty years. Alongside the music it follows the emotional weight of the tour — on the crowds who filled the stadiums and on the brothers’ reconciliation.

Knight said: “I genuinely cannot wait for the world to see this film.” Southern observed that those first joint interviews catch the pair “laughing and reminiscing; they’re both natural comedians.”

From Manchester to the stadiums

Oasis formed in Manchester in 1991, at first under the name the Rain, with Liam Gallagher on vocals, Paul Arthurs on guitar, Paul McGuigan on bass and Tony McCarroll on drums. Noel Gallagher joined soon afterwards, took over the songwriting and became the group’s de facto leader. The band went on to define Britpop for a generation. Definitely Maybe arrived in 1994; (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? followed in 1995. Both records, and the singles that surrounded them, turned stadium anthems into everyday language across Britain and Ireland.

The original run ended in 2009. Liam later fronted Beady Eye and, from 2017, built a solo catalogue that included As You Were, Why Me? Why Not. and the 2024 collaboration Liam Gallagher & John Squire. Noel continued with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. Live ’25 brought the brothers back to the same stage. The tour’s afterlife is already on record: live singles drawn from the dates include Slide Away from Cardiff, Cigarettes & Alcohol from Manchester, Little By Little from London, Bring It On Down from Edinburgh, Acquiesce from Wembley, and Wonderwall recorded live in Dublin on 16 August 2025.

For Irish listeners that Dublin single, and the two Croke Park nights on 16 and 17 August 2025, remain the local centre of the reunion. The film gives those shows a second life on the big screen, placing the Dublin crowd inside a wider arc that crosses three continents without losing the particular charge of those August dates.

A short cinema window, then streaming

The theatrical release is limited. It is a Magna Studios production, presented by Sony Music Vision in association with Sony Music Entertainment UK and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film screened at the Venice Film Festival and is released on 10 September in Australia and 11 September in the UK and US.

What arrives tomorrow is therefore both a document of Live ’25 and a marker of how far the band have travelled since the early Nineties line-up first took shape in Manchester. The songs were already public property; the film adds the rehearsal room, the wings of the stage, and the two voices speaking in the same frame for the first time in two decades. For anyone who stood on the terraces at Croke Park last August, or who has only known the records, the cinema run is the next chance to hear the tour whole before it settles onto the streamers.