{"id":641919,"date":"2026-05-02T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:29:09","slug":"michael-crosses-300m-ww-becomes-no-2-musical-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641919\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Michael’ Crosses $300M WW, Becomes No. 2 Musical Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Liongate\u2019s Michael<\/a> is crossing $300M today around the globe which will unseat Warner Bros\u2019 8x Oscar nominated Elvis ($288.6M) as the No. 2 musical biopic ever, just behind Bohemian Rhapsody ($911M), which was also produced by Michael producer Graham King. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter opening to $218.8M around the globe off of Universal\u2019s foreign release of the pic, the Antoine Fuqua directed movie went on to collect another $47.5M between Monday and Thursday abroad in 82 territories, taking its international running cume to $169.3M. <\/p>\n

\n\tMichael\u2018s domestic week ended at $129.8M, and added all up, global stands at $299M as of yesterday. It\u2019s expected that Michael will have a second weekend of $45M, -54%, with a running domestic take of\u00a0$174.8M by EOD Sunday. <\/p>\n

\n\tAbroad, the Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Colman Domingo and Miles Teller starring movie saw a $12.8M Thursday, -8% from last week\u2019s opening Thursday. This is a particularly exceptional hold as the film competes with sunny weather across Europe, and the opening of\u00a0Devil Wears Prada 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tTerritory updates:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013The\u00a0UK & Ireland\u00a0has reached $21.8M cume to-date.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013France\u00a0grossed an excellent $1.3M on Thursday,\u00a0reclaiming the\u00a0No.1\u00a0spot in admissions for the day, above the second day of\u00a0Devil Wears Prada 2. It has reached $14.2M cume to-date.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013Mexico\u00a0has now reached $12.9M.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013Italy\u00a0had an exceptional Thursday, grossing $900K, rising +7% from last week and raising its cume to $11.1M cume to-date.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013Brazil\u00a0has reached a cume to-date of $10.3M.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013Germany\u00a0saw an excellent +25% uplift on Thursday with $900K.\u00a0 The cume has now reached $9.5M.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013Spain\u00a0had a fantastic Thursday, rising +34% from last week, with $700K for the day to reach $9M cume to-date.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe\u00a0Middle East\u00a0region grossed $1M on Thursday with incredible uplift from last week\u2019s opening (+36%). The running total has now reached $8M. That\u2019s a great sign as the Iran war has been a distraction for many. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013China\u00a0grossed $500K on Thursday to reach $6.6M cume to-date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Liongate\u2019s Michael is crossing $300M today around the globe which will unseat Warner Bros\u2019 8x Oscar nominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,17234,337],"class_list":["post-641919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-michael","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641919","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=641919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}