From the Oasis reunion to Billie Eilish in 3D: These music films will make 2026 a cinema year for fans. All dates, trailers and details to reserve.
2025 was a highlight when it came to music releases and concerts. The past year also brought unexpected musical and live comebacks. A few of them were captured on film and will see the light of day in 2026. The list – in order of release dates – offers you an overview of the cinema spectacles that await you this year. You can find out all the information that is currently known about the projects at a glance.
Courtney Love – “Antiheroine” (January 27, 2026)
“Antiheroine” is an intimate music documentary about Courtney Love, which has followed her since her move from Los Angeles to London in 2019. The focus is on artistic self-determination, public perception, personal crises and their musical legacy. As a singer, songwriter and frontwoman of the grunge band Hole, Love shaped alternative rock in the 1990s – the film is seen as a conscious alternative to her earlier media portrayal.
In particular, the media misogyny to which Love was exposed over decades is discussed: instead of being an artist, she was often stylized as a projection surface. “Antiheroine” is the first feature-length documentary about Courtney Love that does not primarily define her through Kurt Cobain, but rather focuses on her own perspective. The premiere is planned for the Sundance Film Festival (January 22 to February 1, 2026), with the regular theatrical release following on January 27, 2026.
A trailer for the project has not yet been released.
Stray Kids – “The dominATE Experience” (February 6, 2026)
With “The dominATE Experience”, the current world tour of the K-pop group Stray Kids reaches the cinema screen – not as a classic concert recording, but as a specifically designed cinema event. The film combines high-energy live footage with exclusive backstage footage and places particular emphasis on precise choreography, monumental sets and direct interaction with a global audience.
Director Paul Dugdale, who has already made concert films for Adele, Taylor Swift and Coldplay, developed the project in parallel for several premium cinema formats such as IMAX, ScreenX and 4DX. This allows the event to be experienced spatially and positions itself clearly within the strategic expansion of K-Pop into the international cinema market, where concerts are increasingly thought of as collective fan experiences.
Watch the trailer for the cinema event here:
Elvis Presley – “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” (February 18, 2026)
“EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” combines restored Elvis Presley concert recordings with a narrative documentary about his career and cultural influence. With the help of AI-supported image and sound restoration, Presley’s stage presence can be experienced in a new way and prepared for a modern cinema audience.
The clear IMAX positioning is central: Instead of a pure archive film, the project relies on maximum image size, high resolution and spatial sound in order to make Presley’s stage presence physically tangible. Director Baz Luhrmann follows up on his work on the feature film “Elvis” (2022) and shifts the focus from the biographical narrative to a contemporary re-examination of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Watch the trailer for “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” here:
Charli XCX – “The Moment” (February 19, 2026)
“The Moment” is a mockumentary feature film that combines documentary and fictional elements and stars Charli XCX in a deliberately staged version of herself. The strip reflects pop staging, identity and the mechanisms of the music industry with a satirical undertone.
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Stylistically, the project is heavily oriented towards social media aesthetics, meta levels and internet culture. Instead of classic mainstream cinema, the film is clearly aimed at a festival and arthouse audience. This makes “The Moment” less of a classic artist documentary than a self-deconstruction of a pop star who dismantles his own image on film. After the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the film will be released in German cinemas on February 19, 2026.
Watch the mockumentary trailer here:
Paul McCartney – “Man on the Run” (February 2026)
Man on the Run is a biographical documentary about Paul McCartney’s career after the end of the Beatles. The focus is deliberately on the often overlooked post-Beatles phase, particularly his time with Wings. The band founded by McCartney enjoyed great international success in the 1970s and played a central role in his artistic reorientation.
The title refers to the album BAND ON THE RUN and the song of the same name and is symbolic of McCartney’s search for independence. The film was directed by Morgan Neville, who is known for his nuanced reassessments of music history. Extensive, previously unpublished archive material is also expected. The planned cinema and streaming release (Amazon Prime Video) in February 2026 is intended as a corrective to the common Beatles narrative and shines a new light on McCartney as an independent artist.
Billie Eilish – “Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)” (March 19, 2026)
With “Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D),” Billie Eilish positions herself not only as a pop star, but also as a filmmaker. The immersive cinema-concert event captures their world tour of the same name in lavishly produced 3D images and shows complete live performances, the visual stage concept and selected behind-the-scenes moments.
The concert film marks the 24-year-old’s directing debut, albeit as co-director. The singer shared the position with James Cameron, who is also making a debut. The project with Eilish is his first participation in a music film. For the production, the 71-year-old used 3D camera technologies that are otherwise mainly used in blockbusters. According to their own statements, the goal of the two of them for the project was to design a technologically ambitious cinema event instead of a classic concert recording. The music film, which fuses pop with high-end film technology, will be released in German cinemas on March 19, 2026.
Watch the concert film trailer here:
Oasis – “Live ’25” (2026)
The concert film of the unexpected comeback of the Gallagher brothers Noel and Liam is named after their reunion tour “Oasis – Live ’25”. Over the course of four months last year, this concert series took the two of them not only to their homeland but also to Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America.
In addition to concert recordings, the film also promises documentary insights into the dynamics of the band and their reunion since their breakup in 2009 following private disputes. The project is directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, who are known for their intimate portraits of musicians. With the support of Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”), a narrative approach is also suggested. A specific release date is still pending – but the concert film is still expected in 2026.
While there is no official trailer for the project yet, Oasis recently shared this snippet with their fans on Instagram:
Black Sabbath – “Back to the Beginning: Ozzy’s Final Bow” (2026)
“Back to the Beginning: Ozzy’s Final Bow” is a concert and documentary film about Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s final joint show. The film is intended to shed light on both the farewell concert and the band’s historical significance for heavy metal.
Instead of grand spectacle, a focus on legacy, retrospection and meaning for multiple generations of metal fans is expected, complemented by recordings at symbolic locations in the band’s history. Because: Ozzy Osbourne died of cardiac arrest on July 22, 2025 at the age of 76.
The release planned for 2026 makes the film more than a tour documentary: it functions as a cinematic farewell to a genre icon and as a collective place of remembrance for an entire style of music. An exact release date is not yet known.
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