Michael<\/a>,\u201d the musical biopic that follows Michael Jackson\u2019s career, will begin streaming on Starz on Aug. 10. Released on April 24, \u201cMichael\u201d grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2026.<\/p>\nDirected by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan, \u201cMichael\u201d chronicles Jackson\u2019s rise to fame, covering his involvement in the Jackson 5 band with his brothers in the 1960s to his \u201cBad\u201d tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is played by his nephew, Jaafar Jackson, and as a child by Juliano Valdi, both making their film debuts.<\/p>\n
The film features an ensemble cast featuring Colman Domingo as family patriarch Joe Jackson, Nia Long as matriarch Katherine Jackson, Miles Teller as entertainment lawyer John Branca and Laura Harrier as music producer Suzanne de Passe. It also includes Kat Graham as Diana Ross and Larenz Tate as Motown founder Berry Gordy. Jackson\u2019s siblings are portrayed by Jamal R. Henderson as Jermaine, Tre\u2019 Horton as Marlon, Rhyan Hill as Tito, Joseph David-Jones as Jackie and Jessica Sula as LaToya.
Lionsgate first announced the film in February 2022, with Fuqua and Jaafar joining the project in February 2023.<\/p>\n
\n\tVariety critic Owen Gleiberman praised Jaafar\u2019s performance in the film, saying the actor \u201cnails the look, the voice, the electrostatic moves \u2014 and, more than that, the mixture of delicacy and steel that made Michael who he was.\u201d Glieberman added that \u201cMichael\u201d could be the first biopic to set up a franchise, and a sequel from Lionsgate is now in active development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King of Pop is headed to streaming. \u201cMichael,\u201d the musical biopic that follows Michael Jackson\u2019s career, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,76011,11098],"class_list":["post-562209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-michael","tag-prime-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562209","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=562209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}