Universal Pictures International will handle the overseas rollout of «Musk», Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk, and release dates are now set for several major markets. The film opens in the United Kingdom on January 15, in Germany on January 21, in Spain on February 5, in France on February 17 and in Australia on February 25. Further international dates have yet to be announced.
The film runs about three hours and 45 minutes, which places it close to four hours and well beyond the length of a standard feature. It was first released in the United States through Bleecker Street. The international path has drawn attention because the overseas plans came after questions about how the documentary would reach audiences beyond the American market, and one report has described the film as controversial.
Gibney's documentary centers on Musk, the entrepreneur who leads Tesla and SpaceX and owns the social platform X. The length of the film and its focus on a single, highly visible figure are likely to shape how it is presented in each territory, though the available details do not describe specific marketing campaigns or local distribution partners beyond Universal's involvement.
The staggered schedule gives each market its own window across the winter months. The UK opening in mid-January comes first, followed within a week by Germany, then Spain and France in February, and Australia at the end of the month. The spacing means that the film will open in some of the largest European markets over a span of several weeks rather than in a single coordinated launch. Universal has not confirmed the remaining territories, so it remains unclear how many countries will eventually receive the film and on what timetable.
The overseas plans have been framed against the broader question of how an independent documentary of this length and subject travels internationally. The notes accompanying the rollout do not record any statement from Musk, his companies or Gibney on the international dates, and no reaction from distributors or exhibitors in the listed countries has been reported. What is confirmed is the sequence of dates and the distribution arrangement itself, both of which place the documentary on a clear path toward wider global availability.
Universal's broader release calendar is also moving in the same period. The studio's feature «The Odyssey» returns to about 1,000 screens across the United States on December 11, after having been available to watch at home through premium video-on-demand, 4K and DVD. That return is separate from the «Musk» documentary and does not form part of its overseas rollout, but it shows the studio managing several titles across different windows at once.