Queen Live in Budapest(2026)

Name: Queen Live in Budapest
Director: János Zsombolyai
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: Oct 7, 2026
Cast: Queen, John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury

Trafalgar Releasing

1h 30m
- Documentary
- Music

Release Date: Oct 7, 2026

July 1986, a stadium in Budapest, and a Western rock band playing behind the Iron Curtain for the first time. Queen run the set that defined their last tour with Freddie Mercury, in front of a crowd that had never seen anything like it. Restored from the original film and remixed from the master tapes, a concert returned to the scale it was played at.

Release Details

Original Release | Oct 7, 2026 | Limited

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Box Office Results

2026-10-13T11:26:37.728Z

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$681,000
Total US & Canada:
$681,000
Total International
$26,363
Total Worldwide:
$707,363

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Director & Top Cast

Queen
Themselves

John Deacon
Self

Brian May
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Freddie Mercury
Self

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Hungary, Canada, United States

Language: Hungarian,English

Available Specialty Formats

IMAX

Summaries

Plot Summary

Queen Live in Budapest is a 2026 cinema and IMAX release of the concert film shot at Budapest's Népstadion on 27 July 1986, directed by János Zsombolyai. The performance came during The Magic Tour, the band's final tour with Freddie Mercury, and Queen were the first Western rock band to play a stadium behind the Iron Curtain, with Mercury joined by Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.
The set runs the material the tour was built on and closes out through "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You" and "God Save the Queen". Park Road Post Production, Peter Jackson's facility in New Zealand, restored the footage in 4K from the original 35mm elements, which the National Film Institute FilmLab in Budapest digitised from negatives the NFI Film Archive has held since 1986. Queen's own studio team remixed the audio from the original multitrack recordings.
Trafalgar Releasing, with Sony Music Vision, put it in cinemas and IMAX worldwide on 7 October 2026, following a world premiere at the Budapest Classics Film Marathon on 15 September and a London premiere on 30 September. Home formats follow on 30 October.
For Queen audiences and for anyone who wants the Mercury-era live act at cinema scale.