The eagerly anticipated documentary on Led Zeppelin’s early years, Becoming Led Zeppelin, has finally been given a broad release date.

The movie was later retitled and reedited after its first 2021 Venice International Film Festival debut. The general distribution has been confirmed after an initial run of screenings that were only available in IMAX theaters was announced earlier this month.

Before its non-IMAX release on February 7, Becoming Led Zeppelin will be shown at IMAX theaters in the UK on February 5 and 6. A new trailer for the movie has also been published by Sony Pictures in the UK (see below).

The movie will have its North American premiere on February 5 in a few IMAX theaters, followed by additional showings at over 200 theaters on February 7 and a countrywide premiere on over 1000 screens on February 14.

Although the Becoming Led Zeppelin website only mentions North American screenings at the time of writing, further screenings in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, and Austria have been announced.

In 2021, filmmaker Bernard MacMahon stated, “My goal with Becoming Led Zeppelin was to make a new form of film, a documentary that resembles a musical.” In order to contextualize the music with the places where it was made and the global events that influenced it, I wanted to weave together the four distinct stories of the band members before and after they founded their group. A significant portion of each story was told solely through music and imagery.

“I used only original prints and negatives, with over 70,000 frames of footage manually restored, and devised fantasia sequences, inspired by Singin’ In The Rain, layering unseen performance footage with montages of posters, tickets and travel to create a visual sense of the freneticism of their early career.”