Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer Coming To Movie Theaters

(Cleopatra) Documentary film DI'ANNO - IRON MAIDEN'S LOST SINGER is coming to UK cinemas from May 1st, 2026 at Birmingham's Mockingbird Cinema, followed by screenings through June 2nd in the UK's Light Cinema chain. Full listings and ticket purchase links can be found here.

And while still in U.S. film festivals such as Sound Unseen in Minneapolis (May 13th) and the San Francisco Documentary Festival on (June 3rd), The film will also see its North American Theatrical Premier for public audiences at the Lumiere Music Hall Theater, 9036 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 on June 9th, 2026 at 7:00pm, which is also the official North American release date for both the digital VOD and Home Entertainment DVD/Blu Ray formats. A special Q&A session with Director Wes Orshoski will immediately follow the Beverly Hills screening.

In this strikingly raw and intimate film, director Wes Orshoski captures the late singer riding an emotional rollercoaster toward the end of his life. Featuring appearances by James Hetfield (Metallica),Gene Simmons (Kiss) , Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and members of Exodus, Slayer, Megadeth, Overkill and Sepultura, the film chronicles how two Iron Maiden fans encounter Di'Anno at the lowest point of his life and then set out to restore his health and relaunch his career.

Metal Hammer describes Orshoski's latest film as a "harrowing insight into Di'Anno's frustration and frailty at a desperately low ebb with an abrasively real, warts-and-all approach to its subject that serves Paul's legacy far more compellingly than some sanitized panegyric", while Metal Talk called it "a raw, dark and intimate documentary detailing the tragic final years of Iron Maiden's original singer, Paul Di'Anno."

Wheelchair-bound since the mid-2010s, Di'Anno's health nosedived during the Covid-19 pandemic, when those two fans launched a crowdfunding campaign which ultimately led to him relocating to Croatia, where - through the help of those fans and doctors - he made a dramatic turnaround while running out of money, reuniting with his former Maiden bandmates and falling in love. Eventually he makes a heroic and drama-filled return to the stage. All of this is captured in Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer, which Orshoski began shooting in 2017.

"For years there wasn't much to capture," says Orshoski, whose credits include Lemmy, a study of Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead. "Paul was waiting for surgeries that doctors in the U.K. would not green-light. He was in an incredibly dark place. But once he got to Croatia, fans and doctors gave him the hope he was desperately searching for. It was beautiful to witness. I wanted to make a film that was unlike any rock doc you've ever seen. And in the end, I think we got there."

One of icons of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, London-born Di'Anno helped launch Iron Maiden around the world, appearing on two of the most foundational metal albums ever released: Iron Maiden's 1980 self-titled debut and the celebrated follow-up, Killers, released in 1981. In one of the most epic sagas in metal history, Di'Anno left Maiden in 1981 and was replaced by Bruce Dickinson, leaving metal fans around the world to debate which line-up and which singer was/is better. It's a debate that continues to this day, almost 50 years later.

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