{"id":369833,"date":"2026-04-08T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:07:08","slug":"bubbles-the-chimp-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369833\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubbles the chimp is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, we\u2019ve been hearing a lot about that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/michael-jackson-biopic-child-abuse-allegations-cut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson biopic will not include<\/a>: the child abuse allegations, the tabloid headlines from the last decades of his life, his sister Janet, and apparently anything that might tarnish his posthumous brand. It\u2019s a bit of a surprise then that Bubbles, Michael\u2019s pet chimp, makes it into this one, though we guess that does support the whole \u201clove for animals\u201d we\u2019ve been hearing about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As with the other footage we\u2019ve seen from the film so far, Michael seems to focus mostly on recognizable images from the 1980s rather than an especially novel examination of the man in the mirror. We get some recreations of the \u201cThriller\u201d video and the Motown 25 concert where the moonwalk got popular. Lionsgate also shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GPBtfqQ5tJE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an extended clip<\/a> of the latter moment, which looks a lot like the real thing but now with shots of the audience understanding in real time that they just saw a pop culture moment important enough to make it into a movie 40 years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael stars Jafar Jackson, the real Michael\u2019s nephew, as the King of Pop, with Colman Domingo and Nia Long as his parents, Joe and Katherine, respectively. The film opens in theaters on April 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lately, we\u2019ve been hearing a lot about that the Michael Jackson biopic will not include: the child abuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-369833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}