#FIRSTLOOK: “PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE?” COMING THIS FALL TO MUBI

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has announced Garth Jennings’ new film PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE? will release exclusively on its streaming platform Fall 2026.

In the spirit of Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz, filmmaker Garth Jennings (Sing, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Son of Rambow) crafts a kinetic new 90 minute movie, charting Pulp’s extraordinary journey from obscurity to cultural touchstone.

It fuses the brilliantly choreographed stage spectacle of Pulp’s biggest ever arena show – part of the global tour for MORE, the band’s first album in 24 years – with four decades of colourful, never-seen-before archival material.

Narrated by Pulp’s frontman, Jarvis Cocker and featuring twenty songs – hits and deep cuts – this movie is Pulp and Garth’s spectacular answer to the question, “What do you do for an encore?”, and a vibrant tribute to a band of brilliant misfits, whose unique blend of irony, rebellion, and razor-sharp social commentary resonated with generations of listeners and helped define an era of British culture.

PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE? is a MUBI Production directed by Garth Jennings and edited by Barney Pilling (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris).

The film is produced by Octavia Peissel (Asteroid City, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) for Opal Films, Danny Gabai and Amy Rattray for VICE Studios, and Paul Dugdale. Executive producers are Stuart Goldstein, Tom Healy and Rosie Taylor (VICE Studios); Harper Simon and Mark Sainsbury; Jarvis Cocker and Jeanette Lee.

MUBI WILL RELEASE PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE?
IN FALL 2026, DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED

ABOUT GARTH JENNINGS
Garth Jennings is a film director, writer and artist. He has directed numerous music videos and commercials through his co-owned production company Hammer & Tongs. His work includes videos for Blur, Radiohead, Beck, R.E.M., Fatboy Slim and Vampire Weekend. He directed the feature film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and wrote and directed the semi-autobiographical film Son of Rambow. Garth went on to write and direct the animated films Sing and Sing 2 with Illumination Entertainment which grossed more than a billion dollars at the box office, and the short film Sing Thriller, which premiered on Netflix in October 2024. In 2019, he wrote and directed the short film Madame, which was screened and presented in various international film festivals and awarded the title of Best Short. He is the author of four children’s books: The Wildest Cowboy, The Deadly Seven, The Good, the Bad and the Deadly Seven, and The Curse of the Deadly Seven. He also directed the live shows of the band Pulp for their worldwide concert tours both in 2023 and in 2025. Garth is currently writing and directing his next movie.

ABOUT JARVIS COCKER
Jarvis Cocker is a musician & broadcaster from the north of England. He formed the band Pulp in 1978 whilst at secondary school. They went on to become one of the most successful UK groups of the 1990s. Between 2009 & 2017 he presented the BBC 6Music programme Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service as well as the ongoing, award-winning BBC Radio 4 documentary series Wireless Nights. He has honorary doctorates from both Sheffield Hallam University and Central Saint Martin’s School of Art (which he attended 1988-91). His lyric collection Mother, Brother, Lover was published by Faber in 2011. Good Pop, Bad Pop, his first work of long-form prose, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2022. The Sunday Service is back on air this year as Someday Service. He divides his time between London and the Peak District in the north of England. His star-sign is Virgo.

About MUBI
MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. MUBI creates, curates, acquires and champions visionary films, bringing them to audiences all over the world.

MUBI is a place to discover ambitious films by boundary-pushing filmmakers — from iconic directors to emerging auteurs — all carefully chosen by MUBI’s curators. With MUBI GO, members in select countries can get a free ticket every week to see the best new films in cinemas. And Notebook explores all sides of cinema culture — both in print and online.

Founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, MUBI is the biggest community of film lovers anywhere, with members across 190 different countries. MUBI is headquartered in London, with 15 offices across the world and over 400 employees.

MUBI also owns The Match Factory, a premier international sales company for independent cinema, acquired in 2022. The Match Factory operates alongside MUBI, focusing on world sales for exceptional films that fall outside MUBI’s own distribution slate.

MUBI additionally owns a majority stake in leading Benelux film distributor Cinéart.

About VICE Studios
VICE Studios, a division of VICE Media, develops, finances and produces premium, award-winning and culture-defining content for the global marketplace. Operating with a full-service production facility, VICE Studios powers scripted, unscripted and branded content that anticipates culture with a distinct bold, authentic, raw and unfiltered VICE lens. The studio is behind the critically-acclaimed Gangs of London, in production for a fourth season on Sky in the UK with the third season currently airing on AMC+. Recent scripted titles include the adrenaline-charged thriller Atomic, for Sky, and the satirical feature Bad Apples, starring Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan. The studio is behind a string of hits for VICE TV including Dark Side of the Ring, Dark Side of the Cage, United Gangs of America, Hells Angels, and Out of Bounds. Other recent unscripted titles include Into the Void (Hulu), Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam (Prime Video), Pavements (Mubi), Bama Rush (HBO), and Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now (Netflix). VICE Studios owns and operates the Cuba Pictures label, behind hit series The Rumour and The Walsh Sisters. At VICE, we take creative risks, challenge convention, and we live to tell the story.

ABOUT OPAL FILMS
Founded by producer Octavia Peissel, Opal Films is an independent production company specializing in documentaries, short films, and feature-length films. Opal collaborates with both established and emerging filmmakers on bold, innovative, and ambitious projects with a strong international scope.

ABOUT OCTAVIA PEISSEL
Born in 1984, Octavia Peissel is an independent Franco-American producer. She began her career at Sony Pictures Classics in New York in 2005 as an acquisitions assistant. In 2007, she relocated to Paris, where she became acquisitions coordinator and assistant to Hengameh Panahi, President of Celluloid Dreams.

She is known for her long-standing collaboration with director Wes Anderson. An associate producer on Moonrise Kingdom (2011) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2013), she went on to co-produce Isle of Dogs (2018), The French Dispatch (2020), Asteroid City (2022), and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three Others (2023).

Through her company Opal Films, Octavia produces an exec produces a wide range of innovative international films such as Becoming Capa by Charlotte Colbert (2026); animated feature Bouchra (2025) by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki, presented at TIFF and NIFF 2025; feature documentary The Wild One, which Tribeca and Deauville in 2022; the animated short Aline (2021), which received the Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival; the horror short Madame (2018) by Garth Jennings; and Alex Prager’s dance film La Grande Sortie (2015).

Octavia works as an independent consultant in Europe and the United States on projects such as The Gallerist (2026) by Cathy Yan, You Resemble Me (2021) by Dina Amer for Vice Studios, and Wormwood (2018) by Errol Morris for Netflix.

Member of the Producers Guild of America since 2019, she is based in Paris.