Oasis film’s cinema window is all but shut

Opened on 9 September 2026 with a £2.66 million weekend, the film carries the Gallagher brothers’ first joint interviews in more than two decades and moves to Disney+ later in 2026.

The limited theatrical run of *Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger* has effectively closed in the UK and Ireland. After opening on 9 September 2026, the film was set for a short engagement running until around 24 September before its move onto streaming platforms.

Opening-weekend box office in the UK and Ireland reached £2.66 million. The feature is due on Disney+ internationally later in 2026.

Stadium nights on the big screen

Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern and written by Steven Knight, the documentary follows Oasis’s 2025 Live ’25 reunion tour. It mixes rehearsal footage, backstage access and full onstage performances from cities including Cardiff, Manchester, Dublin’s Croke Park, Tokyo, São Paulo and New York, and places fan stories alongside the tour itself.

At its centre are the first joint interviews Liam and Noel Gallagher have given in more than two decades. The film turns on reconciliation and forgiveness after the brothers’ 15-year estrangement that followed the band’s split in 2009. For an Irish audience the Croke Park material lands with particular force: one of the tour’s landmark nights, now preserved as part of the official record rather than merely as a memory of the stands.

The picture had its UK premiere earlier this month, days before the UK and Irish cinema release. That sequence — festival bow where applicable, short theatrical burst, then a major-platform streaming window — has become the standard path for a tour film of this scale, and the opening-weekend figure suggests the demand was there even inside a deliberately brief run.

Where Live ’25 sits in the catalogue

Oasis formed in Manchester in 1991, at first as the Rain, with Liam Gallagher on vocals alongside Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll. Noel Gallagher joined soon afterwards, took over songwriting, and steered the group into the front rank of Britpop. *Definitely Maybe* arrived in 1994; *(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?* followed in 1995. The band’s run of singles and albums through the mid-1990s fixed them as one of the defining British rock acts of the decade.

The 2009 split ended that chapter. Liam went on to front Beady Eye and, from 2017’s *As You Were*, pursued a solo career that kept him on stages and in the charts in his own right. Noel continued as a writer and bandleader with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. Live ’25 was the first time the brothers shared a bill again at this scale. The tour also fed the catalogue: 2025 and 2026 brought a string of live singles drawn from the dates, among them performances logged in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and at Wembley Stadium, plus a remastered sweep of the 1994–2009 era. The film is the long-form document of that return — not a substitute for the gigs, but the authorised account of how they looked and sounded from the inside.

What changes now is access. Stadium tickets were finite; a Disney+ window is not. Viewers who never reached Cardiff, Croke Park or the overseas legs get the rehearsals, the joint interviews and the fan strand in one sitting. Viewers who were there get the tour reframed as a finished piece of work, with Knight’s script and Lovelace and Southern’s cameras choosing the emphasis: forgiveness after a long estrangement, and a band whose 1990s records still set the terms of the conversation.

With the cinema dates spent, the next public life of *Don’t Look Back in Anger* is that streaming release later in 2026. The theatrical experiment has done its job: a short cinema footprint in the UK, Ireland and beyond. The wider audience arrives next.