Stephen Curry's Journey to 4,000 Career 3-Pointers in IMAX

Stephen Curry has been redefining basketball for more than a decade. Now his latest milestone is headed for the biggest screen possible.

“Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry,” a feature documentary charting his run-up to an unprecedented 4,000 career 3-pointers, will debut exclusively in IMAX theaters on Oct. 9, 2026.

Directed by Religion of Sports co-founder Gotham Chopra and distributed by Disney, the film turns Curry’s greatest weapon into cinema.

The Night 4,000 Dropped

The centerpiece is that March 13 game at Chase Center, when Golden State’s superstar stepped onto his home floor needing just two threes to hit a number no one in NBA history had ever touched.

He got them. Of course he did.

Against the Sacramento Kings in the 2024-25 season, Curry buried the milestone jumper in front of a roaring San Francisco crowd, pushing past 4,000 made threes as the Warriors rolled to a 130-104 win. It wasn’t just a record; it felt like a culmination. A career built on impossible range, distilled into one more shot that everyone in the arena knew was coming and still couldn’t stop.

To capture it, the production team went big. Twenty-one IMAX-certified cameras tracked Curry and the moment from every angle, turning a regular-season game into a meticulously documented event. The court became a stage. The arc, a spotlight.

Court as Canvas

The film doesn’t stop at the box score. It leans into the idea that Curry is more than a volume shooter with a quick release. He’s treated as an artist.

Curry opens up about his upbringing, the mindset that shaped him, and the obsessive work ethic that turned a lightly recruited guard into a four-time NBA champion and two-time MVP. He breaks down the intangible traits that carried him from Davidson to dynasty architect, from long shot to one of the greatest players to ever touch the league.

On Instagram, he framed the project as a window into that process.

He called it “a new documentary that captures the journey to my 4,000th career three-pointer,” and talked about the “creativity, discipline, and mindset” behind the game he’s devoted his life to. Being compared to an artist, he said, is something he accepts “with a lot of humility,” but he made it clear: creativity has always been at the heart of how he plays.

That idea runs through the film. The hardwood as canvas. The jumper as brushstroke.

Artists Recognizing an Artist

Chopra and his team pull in voices from outside the game to underscore that theme. Viola Davis, Rick Rubin, Patti Smith and Jon Batiste all appear, each a giant in their own field, each weighing in on Curry’s form of artistry.

Their presence lifts the story out of the narrow lane of sports biography. They talk about rhythm, repetition, risk. About the way mastery in any discipline demands the same relentless curiosity and discipline Curry shows every time he launches from 30 feet with a defender in his jersey.

Chopra described his mission plainly in a news release: capture Steph Curry as “an athlete and artist who is always chasing a new masterpiece.” With the court as his canvas, the film aims to reveal the “relentless creativity and discipline” that drive one of the game’s all-time greats, delivered in the immersive scale of IMAX.

Unanimous Vision

“Portrait of an Artist” is also another step in Curry’s evolution off the court.

The documentary is the second film produced by Unanimous Media, the multimedia company he co-founded with Erick Peyton in 2018. Their first major success came with Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat,” an animated feature that surged to the top of the U.S. box office after its February 2026 debut and drew strong reviews from critics and audiences.

Unanimous Media now returns with a project rooted directly in Curry’s own legend. This time, the story isn’t fictional. The stakes are real, the shots count, and the cameras are trained on a living, breathing milestone.

In a joint statement, Curry and Peyton stressed that they weren’t interested in just replaying a record-breaking night. They wanted to go “beyond breaking a record on the court,” digging into the creativity, discipline and mindset behind the journey. The goal: to recreate what it feels like to experience Curry’s performance in real time, especially for those who have never seen him live and maybe never will.

They’ve aligned with Religion of Sports, IMAX and Disney/ESPN to push that experience onto a global stage.

The numbers already speak loudly enough. Four thousand threes. First ever to do it. Now the question becomes how that sound — that familiar snap of the net — plays when it echoes through an IMAX theater, and how much further Curry’s artistry can travel when the court is no longer the only canvas.