Oasis tour film still climbing at the box office

Preview takings reached £675,000 on opening day; the Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern-directed film premiered at Venice and will move to Disney+ after its theatrical run, while rehearsal, backstage and onstage footage features both Gallagher brothers.

The Oasis documentary *Don’t Look Back in Anger* opened at the top of the UK and Irish box office on its first day.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures put the film into UK cinemas on 9 September and into wider release, including Ireland, on 11 September, with selected screenings. Preview takings alone reached £675,000 across the UK and Ireland on that opening day. The theatrical run is still under way, with a move to Disney+ after the cinema window.

The tour on film

Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, the picture is rated R for language. Its subject is Oasis Live ’25, the 2025 world stadium tour that marked the band’s return to the stage. Rehearsal, backstage and onstage footage sit alongside elements featuring the Gallagher brothers.

The film had its world premiere out of competition at the Venice International Film Festival on 5 September before the cinema roll-out. It is a mammoth tour movie that brings out both the joy and the poignancy of the reunion, and concentrates on the audience and on what the music does in the room.

Where it sits in the Oasis story

Oasis were 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 as the principal songwriter for the group’s first run of albums. *Definitely Maybe* arrived in 1994 and became a landmark debut; *(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?* followed and fixed the band as one of the central acts of Britpop. The brothers remained the only constant members through successive line-up changes until the group split.

After the split, Liam fronted Beady Eye and then built a solo catalogue from *As You Were* in 2017 through *Why Me? Why Not.*, with live sets including *Knebworth 22* and a 2024 album with John Squire. Noel pursued his own writing away from the Oasis name. Live ’25 brought them back together. Official live singles from the tour have already charted the geography of those nights: *Slide Away* from Cardiff on 4 July 2025, *Cigarettes & Alcohol* from Manchester on 11 July, *Little By Little* from London on 2 August, *Bring It On Down* from Edinburgh on 9 August, *Wonderwall* from Dublin on 16 August, and *Acquiesce* from Wembley Stadium on 28 September 2025.

The documentary does not restart the 1990s biography. It stays with the tour — the craft of the performances, the scale of the stadium return, and the interactions of the brothers after a decade and a half apart.

The window still open

By the third week of September the film had already shown a strong early performance. For listeners who know the records and the gigs, the cinema version is another route into Live ’25: the same songs at volume, the same choruses, held on a big screen before the film reaches Disney+. How long the theatrical engagement holds will become clearer in the days ahead; the figure logged on the opening day shows the appetite has not faded since the opening weekend.