Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Show Is Coming to Theaters Next Year
Because apparently the Prince of Fucking Darkness isn’t done giving us reasons to cry in our battle vests, Back To The Beginning: Ozzy’s Final Bow is coming to theaters in early 2026. And it’s not just any concert film. It’s a full-on, cinematic funeral party for one of the most iconic voices in the history of heavy metal.
The feature-length movie, produced by Mercury Studios, is a 100-minute throwdown-slash-tribute capturing the last stand of Ozzy Osbourne in his hometown of Birmingham. Filmed during the sold-out, livestreamed blowout at Villa Park — which doubled as both an emotional farewell and a jaw-dropping fundraising event — the flick promises backstage access, interviews, and previously unreleased footage.
In other words, it’s not just a film. It’s the kind of thing you’ll lie about seeing live in 20 years.
Shot at the all-day epic that went down in August 2024, Back to the Beginning bottles the chaos, heartache, and sonic thunder of a night that somehow featured Ozzy doing a full solo set and a surprise Sabbath reunion. And it wasn’t just nostalgia bait. This show raised more than $190 million for charity, putting it ahead of Live Aid, FireAid, and basically every other fundraiser not hosted by Taylor Swift.
Speaking to Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation, Tony Iommi opened up about what it was like pulling this reunion off without knowing if Ozzy could physically handle it.
“Well, by the time we were finished talking about what’s, you know, our health and everything else, and then we sort of went into, just started playing and that’s really what we did. Just started, we worked out what we were gonna play, what songs we were gonna play.
And it was really a case of how long Ozzy could do it, really, because we didn’t know – with him doing his own set, which I said to him, I didn’t think he should do because I didn’t want him to get burnt out by the time he come with us. But, you know, he didn’t, and he did his own set. And we didn’t know, we ended up doing four songs where we put aside sort of six or seven, but it worked out that we did four. So that was fine.”
Translation: nobody had any idea what would happen, but it worked — and then some.
That pre-show anxiety wasn’t just Ozzy’s. Iommi added that the entire band, including Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, was worried Ozzy would burn out before he could even get through Sabbath’s part of the night.
“Geezer and myself and Bill, we thought that he should have a longer break and we didn’t really know how we were gonna do it because the original plan was we got a curtain and the curtain was gonna be raised and we’d all be there.”
But if metal has taught us anything, it’s that stubbornness and Satan can get you through just about anything. That includes Parkinson’s — which Ozzy was diagnosed with in 2019 — and the mountain of physical issues he’s battled for years now.
On top of being a tearjerker farewell and a history-making live event, Back to the Beginning is now the highest-grossing charity concert of all time, beating out giants like Live Aid and Hope for Haiti Now. Proceeds went to Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Acorn Children’s Hospice, and Cure Parkinson’s — a cause that hits especially close to home for Ozzy.
A physical release of the film is also expected later in 2026, but exact dates, ticket details, and international theater info haven’t been announced yet. So if you missed the livestream or just want to relive Ozzy’s last hurrah in full Dolby scream-o-vision, this is your chance.
And yes, bring tissues.
