Oasis dated their reunion documentary 'Don't Look Back in Anger' for cinemas and IMAX on September 11

Oasis put out the first teaser for "Don't Look Back in Anger" on July 4, and with it a release plan. The documentary opens in cinemas and select IMAX screens on September 11, then moves to Disney+ internationally and to Hulu and Disney+ in the United States later this year.

The date was chosen on purpose. July 4 was one year to the day since Liam and Noel Gallagher walked back onstage together in Cardiff and reopened a band that had been shut since 2009.

What it covers

The film is about Live '25, the reunion tour, 41 shows across the UK, Europe, North America, and South America. The teaser mostly ignores the concerts. It leans on the reconciliation instead, cutting old audio of the brothers talking themselves out of ever doing this. Noel: "I just don't see myself on stage with Liam." Liam: "The way it finished, unacceptable." Then it puts them in the same room.

The film promises rehearsal and backstage footage and the Gallaghers' first joint interview in more than two decades, which is the part worth showing up for. A tour you can already watch in phone clips on YouTube. The two of them actually talking, on camera, is the thing nobody has had.

Who made it

Steven Knight, the "Peaky Blinders" writer, created and produced it through Magna Studios and Sony Music Vision. It is directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, whose last music films were "Shut Up and Play the Hits," the LCD Soundsystem farewell-show doc, and "Meet Me in the Bathroom." Those two know how to shoot a band as a live event and how to sit with the quiet afterward. That is a better hire than the standard authorized-tour-doc for hire, and it is the main reason to expect something with a point of view rather than a highlight reel.

The theatrical and IMAX play

Music docs have been going to big screens first for a few years now, and the reason is money and occasion. Taylor Swift's "Eras" film proved audiences will pay cinema prices to see a show they had already seen clips of, and studios took the lesson. Booking Oasis into IMAX in September, a full season ahead of the streaming drop, is a bet that the reunion is worth sitting in a dark room for instead of half-watching at home. Given how fast the Live '25 tickets moved, it is not a reckless one.

Whether the movie is any good is a separate question a teaser cannot answer. This early, it is a mood, not a film. But the pieces are the right ones: directors who take the form seriously, access no one else got, and a story with an actual arc instead of a lap of honor. September 11 is the date to watch.