Photo: Emma McIntyre/WireImage What a stunning weekend for brand management! Michael, the critically reviled Michael Jackson biopic, earned over $200 million at the box office globally in its first weekend. $120 million of that was overseas. The film almost broke $100 mil domestically, with a $97 million b.o. its first weekend. Michael now holds the…
Photo: Lionsgate/Everett Collection Michael, the critically reviled new biopic of Michael Jackson, only covers the star’s life up to 1988. Spoilers for Michael, but Jackson continued living past that date. The film ends with a “His Story Continues” title card, as if James Bond teasing Skyfall. But will Michael Jackson actually return in a second…
In bed afterward, recovering from his father’s assault, Michael reads an illustrated Peter Pan book in which a drawing of the villainous Captain Hook is hand-labelled “Joseph”—a blatant foreshadowing of Michael’s refuge in a fantasy version of childhood. Soon, his real childhood is overtaken by his career, when Joseph pulls the group—now called the Jackson…
Michael Jackson’s famous clan stepped out to celebrate the premiere of the new “Michael” biopic, but some of the Jacksons snubbed the event and have opposed the film. On Monday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, several members of the Jackson family gushed about the Antoine Fuqua-helmed film, which depicts the origin story of the…
The new “Scary Movie” isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to celebrity jokes, and Michael Jackson is in the crosshairs for some new promotional material. The franchise’s Ghostface-inspired killer is dressed up like Jackson in a just-released poster that directly parodies the “Michael” promotional material. But in this case, the two taglines are “Prepare…
Where in the “Michael” world is Janet Jackson? The music superstar is nowhere to be seen as a character in the new Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic about her late brother. “I wish everybody was in the movie,” Jackson sibling LaToya Jackson told me Monday night at the film’s premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. “She…
if you zero in on what’s routine about “Michael” or what the movie leaves out, you may miss the compelling urgency of what it gets in: Michael Jackson’s journey to become himself by freeing himself from the past. I think audiences are going to embrace that journey, and “Michael” itself, in a major way. Source:…
A three-day Michael Jackson fan-event is set to take place in Germany this weekend to celebrate “the man and the movie.” The multi-day celebration, which will take place at the Uber Eats Music Hall in Berlin, will include the international premiere of the movie on Friday night as well as talks with the cast and…
