{"id":492111,"date":"2026-06-14T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/492111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:29:23","slug":"michael-surpasses-bohemian-rhapsody-as-highest-grossing-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/492111\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Michael’ Surpasses ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ As Highest-Grossing Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael Jackson\u2019s biopic, Michael, has dethroned Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a> to become the highest-grossing music biopic of all time, crossing $911.9 million worldwide as the Jaafar Jackson-starring film continues its global rollout.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDirected by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan, the Lionsgate and Universal co-production has surpassed Bohemian Rhapsody\u2018s total gross with $358.6 million at the domestic box office and $553.3 million internationally \u2014 with Universal generating $540.5 million of the international total after acquiring foreign theatrical and ancillary rights. The film arrives in Japan today, a territory that could push Michael past $1 billion worldwide, which would make it only the second film to cross that threshold at the 2026 global box office after Universal\u2019s Super Mario Galaxy Movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy comparison, the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody \u2014 which won four Oscars including Best Film Editing and earned Rami Malek a Best Actor win \u2014 grossed $216.6 million domestically and $694.3 million internationally for a $910.9 million global total. Both films were produced by Graham King, meaning King has now broken his own all-time box office record for music biopics.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film has set a string of records in addition to its overall gross \u2014 among them the largest global opening weekend ever for a music biopic, the highest-grossing domestic biopic of all time, and the most successful biopic ever in France, surpassing La Vie en Rose. Forty international markets surpassed Bohemian Rhapsody\u2018s lifetime gross, including Brazil, France and Mexico. It is also Lionsgate\u2019s highest-grossing theatrical release ever worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe road to release was not without turbulence. Lionsgate was forced to undertake $50 million in reshoots after the Jackson estate identified a key issue with a plot point in the screenplay concerning one of Jackson\u2019s accusers, who was not meant to be dramatised in the film. The film stars Jaafar Jackson \u2014 Michael Jackson\u2019s nephew \u2014 in the title role.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Jackson remains one of the most commercially successful recording artists in history. He has sold an estimated 350 million records worldwide, scored 13 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist \u2014 including \u201cBillie Jean,\u201d \u201cBeat It\u201d and \u201cBlack or White\u201d \u2014 and holds the record for the best-selling album of all time with Thriller, which has sold more than 70 million copies worldwide. <\/p>\n

\n\tThriller spent 37 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice \u2014 once as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1997 and once as a solo artist in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson\u2019s biopic, Michael, has dethroned Bohemian Rhapsody to become the highest-grossing music biopic of all time, crossing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,1098,20600],"class_list":["post-492111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music-news","tag-tv-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492111","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=492111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}