{"id":622378,"date":"2026-04-23T02:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622378\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:39:16","slug":"scary-movie-mocks-michael-jackson-child-abuse-allegations-in-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622378\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Scary Movie&#8217; Mocks Michael Jackson Child Abuse Allegations in Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/scary-movie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scary-movie\" data-tag=\"scary-movie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scary Movie<\/a>\u201d isn\u2019t pulling any punches when it comes to celebrity jokes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/michael\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael\" data-tag=\"michael\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael<\/a> Jackson is in the crosshairs for some new promotional material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe franchise\u2019s Ghostface-inspired killer is dressed up like Jackson in a just-released poster that directly parodies the \u201cMichael\u201d promotional material. But in this case, the two taglines are \u201cPrepare to Hee-Hee\u201d and \u201cTouching Fans Everywhere,\u201d the latter a reference <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/michael-movie-reshoots-removing-child-abuse-allegations-1236710221\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to child abuse allegations<\/a> that have followed Jackson for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe biopic \u201cMichael,\u201d which debuts in theaters on Friday from Lionsgate Films, won\u2019t explore any of the allegations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPer <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/michael-director-antoine-fuqua-michael-jackson-alllegations-1236725933\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a recent New York Mag feature<\/a> on \u201cMichael\u201d director Antoine Fuqua, the director \u201cis not convinced that Jackson did what he is accused of doing, despite the number of accusers (five) and the fact that Jackson publicly talked about sharing his bed with boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/scary-movie-6\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scary-movie-6\" data-tag=\"scary-movie-6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scary Movie 6<\/a>\u201d is set to bring back many of the central characters from the first two films in the franchise, including Marlon Wayans as Shorty Meeks, Shawn Wayans as Ray Wilkins, Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell and Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks. The Wayans brothers are back to writing and producing this movie as well, after sitting out the last three chapters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cScary Movie\u201d team also released a short teaser trailer on April 22, which stars \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Kenan Thompson as a very clumsy version of the King of Pop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cScary Movie\u201d heads to theaters via Paramount Pictures on June 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSee the full poster and a Jackson clip below.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scary-Movie-Michael-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"691\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new \u201cScary Movie\u201d isn\u2019t pulling any punches when it comes to celebrity jokes, and Michael Jackson is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,17234,17235,44872,44873],"class_list":["post-622378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-michael","tag-michael-jackson","tag-scary-movie","tag-scary-movie-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}