Following its sold-out, history-making world livestream and epic sendoff in Birmingham, Again To The Starting: Ozzy’s Closing Bow will make its technique to theaters in early 2026. The upcoming feature-length live performance movie — produced by Mercury Studios — will provide a 100-minute immersive cinematic expertise, celebrating the legendary profession of Ozzy Osbourne and his towering affect on heavy steel by means of the pioneering sound of Black Sabbath.
Filmed throughout the all-day spectacle at Villa Park, Ozzy‘s hometown in Birmingham, Again To The Starting captures the uncooked emotion, sonic energy, and magnitude of one of the iconic nights in steel historical past. Framed as a love letter to Ozzy and the style Black Sabbath helped invent, the theatrical reduce condenses the marathon occasion right into a visceral live performance movie full with unique backstage entry, intimate interviews, and never-before-seen footage.
Whereas the theatrical launch will give followers across the globe an opportunity to relive or lastly witness the monumental present on the massive display, a bodily product launch can be set to reach later in 2026. Extra particulars on worldwide theatrical rollout dates, collaborating cinemas, and ticket data will probably be revealed within the coming months.
In a revealing interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation, Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi provided uncommon, behind-the-scenes perception into the band”s emotional reunion.
“Properly, by the point we had been completed speaking about what’s, you already know, our well being and the whole lot else, after which we form of went into, simply began enjoying and that is actually what we did,” Iommi mentioned. “Simply began, we labored out what we had been gonna play, what songs we had been gonna play.
“And it was actually a case of how lengthy Ozzy might do it, actually, as a result of we did not know – with him doing his personal set, which I mentioned to him, I did not assume he ought to do as a result of I did not need him to get burnt out by the point he include us. However, you already know, he did not, and he did his personal set. And we did not know, we ended up doing 4 songs the place we put apart form of six or seven, however it labored out that we did 4. In order that was positive.”
The band”s legendary comeback wasn”t with out concern — notably about Ozzy Osbourne performing a full solo set proper earlier than taking the stage with Black Sabbath. “Geezer and myself and Invoice, we thought that he ought to have an extended break and we did not actually understand how we had been gonna do it as a result of the unique plan was we acquired a curtain and the curtain was gonna be raised and we might all be there.”
Again to the Starting was greater than a farewell — it turned a record-setting act of philanthropy. The live performance raised over $190 million for Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital, Acorn Youngsters’s Hospice, and Remedy Parkinson’s.
That staggering complete makes it the highest-grossing charity live performance of all time, surpassing legendary occasions like Reside Help (1985), FireAid (2025), and Hope for Haiti Now (2010). The live performance’s fundraising effort was particularly private for Ozzy, who was recognized with Parkinson’s in 2019 and has been a vocal advocate for analysis ever since.
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