{"id":490011,"date":"2026-06-12T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/490011\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:45:08","slug":"michael-becomes-highest-grossing-biopic-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/490011\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael becomes highest-grossing biopic ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Michael Jackson fan-film, Michael<\/a>, which curiously and legally side-steps any mention of the pedophilic troubles Jackson\u2019s late career would become mired in, has just become the highest-grossing biopic ever. Per Deadline<\/a>, the movie has amassed $911 million at the worldwide box office, eclipsing Bohemian Rhapsody as the biggest biopic ever. Much of that is from international receipts, which account for $533 millon. Domestically, the film has earned $358 million. When all is said and done, it\u2019ll probably reach a billion dollars, joining the differently cursed\u00a0Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the only 2026 movie to reach the milestone to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fitting that the day another person facing allegations related to child sexual abuse becomes a trillionaire<\/a>, Michael would find itself in rarefied air. But the news does lead us to recall the assessment of Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed, whose film is no longer available due to a \u201cpatently ridiculous\u201d 30-year-old non-disparagement clause between HBO<\/a> and Jackson and a massive push to rehabilitate the late pop star\u2019s image. What does it mean that Jackson is still such a reliable moneymaker?\u00a0\u201cIt says that people don\u2019t care that he was a child molester. Literally, people just don\u2019t care,\u201d he told The Hollywood Reporter in April<\/a>. \u201cI think a lot of people just love his music and turn a deaf ear. And short of having actual video evidence of Michael Jackson engaged in sexual intercourse with a 7-year-old child, I don\u2019t know what would be sufficient to change these people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n

After seeing the movie, Reed became more convinced that the movie reinforced this angelic, childlike persona for Jackson that goes uninvestigated and taken for granted. That\u2019s what audiences want. \u201cTo the culture, Jackson is like a religion. So, what I\u2019ve done is essentially blasphemy, and this biopic reinstates the myth,\u201d he said following the film\u2019s release<\/a>. \u201cAs absurd as any religion, people have to believe in the miracle of Jackson being this asexual, pure being who only wished good for little children and helped them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michael Jackson fan-film, Michael, which curiously and legally side-steps any mention of the pedophilic troubles Jackson\u2019s late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-490011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}