I’m going to come out and say straight off the bat I’m not a diehard Billie Eilish fan – I like her music a lot, but I don’t want to take away from the fans who unabashedly support her and go to all her concerts. That said, I’m very intrigued about the concert movie for her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour coming out in 2026.
With the first trailer dropping at the end of last week, it’s made me Happier Than Ever. Here are all the reasons I can’t wait to see Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour when it hits Cineworld in March – and why you also need to see it.
Billie Eilish hits a sentimental milestone in her career
Since Billie Eilish began her music career, she’s always had her brother, Finneas by her side as she performed. Together they wrote and produced many of her songs across all three of her studio albums. In an emotional moment, though, Billie shares that she’ll be performing for the first time without Finneas.
She reads out an encouraging note he’d written to her, only to seemingly be surprised on stage by Finneas. It certainly got me in my feels to watch, seeing how close their bond truly is even after all this time, complimenting each other creatively rather than coming to blows.
It’s also just a snippet of the kind of candid behind the scenes we’ll see when the concert film is released on the big screen.
James Cameron directed Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour concert movie
I think we can all collectively agree that the trailer alone is epic and captures some of the buzz of seeing your favourite artist live on tour.
And that is thanks to James Cameron, an extraordinary filmmaker that managed to find time between post-production of his epic Avatar franchise to co-direct the concert film of Billie Eilish’s seventh tour.
No one can deny the visionary excellence of James Cameron, and with the trailer already capturing our attention of the kind of unique ways the tour has been captured, it’s likely to be both quietly intimate and booming in its vastness.
Billie Eilish’s concert film will be released in 3D
As if the trailer wasn’t visually stunning enough, giving us Billie Eilish’s POV and giving us a front row view of her Hit Me Hard and Soft setlist (heck, we may as well have stage seat tickets!), the concert film will be released in 3D.
That means many sections of Billie Eilish’s performance will quite literally leap out of the screen as she bounds around the stage, runs through the audience, and jumps her way through every last hit track.
The tour date the concert was filmed was in the UK
There’s something very cool about the idea of a show you attended being the one chosen to be filmed. And while I didn’t personally attend this concert, I love that she chose to film it on my home soil. Considering this tour took her across North America, Australia, and Europe, it feels special for British fans to see one of her stops on her UK leg of the tour on the big screen.
Speaking to the crowd at the first of four shows in Manchester, Billie Eilish said, “So you may have noticed that there are more cameras than usual in here. Basically, I can’t say much about it, but what I can say is that I’m working on something very, very special with somebody named James Cameron.”
“So, take that as you will and these four shows here in Manchester, you and me are part of a thing that I am making with him. He’s in this audience somewhere, just saying.”
Hinting at the magic of filmmaking and being cohesive, Billie added, “So don’t mind that, and also I’ll probably be wearing this exact outfit for like four days in a row.”
It’s a gift to fans that didn’t manage to attend the concert in person
It’s getting increasingly more difficult to get your hands on concert tickets. Between ticket sites seemingly not built for purpose when faced with a high demand, bots buying up tickets and selling them at a premium, as well as competitive pricing tools from the ticketing websites themselves, it’s expensive and like a real-life Hunger Games up in here.
Thankfully Billie Eilish is gifting with all her fans the experience – they’ll just need to purchase a considerably more accessible ticket to their local cinema. Not unlike Taylor Swift’s Era’s Tour, the concert film of Hit Me Hard and Soft gives fans an opportunity to still experience the tour with their own eyes – on the big screen at Cineworld.
With all the tears fans collectively will cry, we're going to have some Ocean Eyes of our own.
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