The music biopic surpassed Oppenheimer's box office record, earning $977 million so far
The wildly successful biopic brought in $911.9 million worldwide, besting Bohemian Rhapsody
Michael is on pace to gross upwards of $1 billion, and it’s causing an enormous surge of interest in his back catalog, sending Thriller up to Number Seven on the Billboard 200
Michael unsurprisingly strays far from the historical record and even erases three of the nine Jackson children
An early storyline in Michael centered on allegations made by 13-year-old Jordan Chandler. It was nixed after filmmakers learned it violated terms of a $20 million settlement
That still doesn’t excuse Antoine Fuqua’s heavily scrubbed origin story, which refashions the King of Pop’s journey into the Passion of St. Michael
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Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson tells Rolling Stone India about accessing some of the pop legends ‘personal writings’ and creating a ‘research room’ to prep for the role
The agreement with HarbourView Equity Partners also covers Jones’ publishing rights and compositions like “Soul Bossa Nova” and the Sanford and Son theme song
The long-in-the-works Michael, which stars the King of Pop’s nephew Jaafar Jackson, is set to hit theaters in April