Becoming Led Zeppelin – Picture: Sony Pictures Classic
The Netflix US slate isn’t fairly finalized, as immediately we’ve discovered that the lately launched music doc Becoming Led Zeppelin might be making its streaming video on demand debut by way of Netflix, courtesy of the primary window deal that the streamer holds with Sony Pictures and its varied subsidaries. Here’s what it’s essential know concerning the upcoming docs.
Released solely in IMAX theaters on February 14th, the film grossed somewhat over $10.4M within the US alone and $12.8M globally, the 2-hour lengthy doc charts the rise of the enduring band from their post-war childhoods and Sixties music scene beginnings to their explosive success in 1969, utilizing unseen live performance footage and private archives, with narration by the surviving members and archival interviews from the late John Bonham. The band is greatest recognized for hits like Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Since I’ve Been Loving You, and Immigrant Song.
Filmmaker Bernard MacMahon is behind the brand new documentary, his first vital movie challenge exterior of his collaborations with the BBC and PBS on American Epic. Led Zeppelin was first screened to audiences in 2021, earlier than Sony Pictures got here on board to distribute it in 2024.
Netflix introduced the June 2025 slate final week, though the film was absent. That’s usually the case, provided that Netflix doesn’t all the time present essentially the most complete look forward on the coming month. That’s the place we step in! We’ll quickly add it to our intensive breakdown of the month’s new arrivals.
Now, we are able to reveal that the doc is ready to debut on Netflix beginning on Saturday, June seventh, 2025, and stay on Netflix for 18 months. As it’s a part of the primary window cope with Sony Pictures, it’s solely heading to the United States for now, though most areas around the globe choose up their slate of titles inside 2-4 years after its launch.
It’s been a busy begin to the yr for Sony Pictures Classics films on Netflix. The Outrun was the primary to drop this yr in February, with I’m Still Here and The Room Next Door additionally having been launched. The Penguin Lessons starring Steve Coogan is anticipated subsequent in July or August. On Swift Horses starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, and Will Poulter may also hit someday this Summer.
On the Sony Pictures aspect, Paddington in Peru is the most recent film to land on the streamer with different 2025 releases set to incorporate Until Dawn somewhat later within the yr alongside the brand new Karate Kid: Legends film and extra.
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