Oasis film’s £2.66m opening as cinema days run out

The Oasis documentary *Don’t Look Back in Anger* has opened with £2.66 million at the UK and Ireland box office over its first weekend, giving the Live ’25 story a firm start on the big screen. Cinemas across both countries are holding the film until 24 September. After that the theatrical run ends and Disney+ takes the next window.

Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern and written by Steven Knight, the film charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s 2025 reunion tour. It mixes rehearsal, backstage and onstage footage from stops including Cardiff, the two sold-out nights at Croke Park in Dublin in August 2025, Manchester, São Paulo, Tokyo and New York. Fan stories sit beside the stadium noise — among them an Argentinian woman who named her dog Bonehead and a South Korean diver who credits the band with helping her through depression. The cut runs approximately two hours and two to four minutes, was shot for IMAX, and premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival. UK and Ireland audiences first saw it on 9 September, with a wider release on or around 11 September.

Opening numbers and the last cinema days

The £2.66 million weekend figure underlines how far the reunion carried beyond the stadium gates. Early notices have been strong: several national papers have awarded four stars, while one major daily has given three. The production is from Magna Studios, presented by Sony Music Vision in association with Sony Music Entertainment UK and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Only a few cinema days remain before the streaming handover.

A career built for the long chorus

Oasis formed in Manchester in 1991, originally as the Rain, with Liam Gallagher on lead vocals, Paul Arthurs on guitar, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll; Noel Gallagher joined soon afterwards as the fifth member and principal songwriter. They became one of the defining groups of Britpop. *Definitely Maybe* arrived in 1994 and set a new mark for a British debut; *(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?* followed in 1995 and pushed the songs into a global register that stadium crowds still shout back note for note.

The band’s path ran through further albums and line-up changes until the 2009 split. Fifteen years of estrangement followed. Live ’25 was the first time the brothers shared a stage again, and it brought their first joint interviews in over twenty-five years. Live singles drawn from that tour have already joined the official catalogue — *Slide Away* from Cardiff, *Wonderwall* from Dublin, *Cigarettes & Alcohol* from Manchester, *Little By Little* from London, *Bring It On Down* from Edinburgh, and *Acquiesce* from Wembley Stadium — so the documentary arrives not as a closed book but as a companion to records already in circulation.

After the split, Liam fronted Beady Eye and, from 2017, launched a solo career opened by *As You Were*; Noel built his own catalogue with the High Flying Birds. The film’s subject is not those separate chapters. It is the shared name, the shared set, and the short stretch of 2025 when the two stood in the same lights again. For an audience that already knows the choruses by heart, the draw is the access — wings, rehearsal rooms, the breath between songs, and the ordinary listeners who carried the records across continents. Croke Park’s two August nights sit in that frame as a Dublin chapter of a global tour, not a footnote.

Screens keep that frame open until 24 September. Then Disney+ inherits the print, and the Live ’25 story moves from the multiplex to the living room while the songs go on doing what they have done since 1994.