{"id":532787,"date":"2026-07-18T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/532787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:29:16","slug":"movies-that-reached-1-billion-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/532787\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies That Reached $1 Billion At The Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starring Jaafar Jackson as his late uncle, the biopic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/showbiz\/michael-jackson-biopic-box-office-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">opened<\/a> to a huge response back in April, bringing in a staggering $217 million worldwide in its debut weekend ($97 million in North America and $120.4 million internationally).<\/p>\n<p>Now, the success has continued with director Antoine Fuqua <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/michael-box-office-billion-1236980104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">calling<\/a>\u00a0it a &#8220;deeply humbling moment that celebrates the tireless dedication of our incredible producers, cast, crew, and partners.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starring Jaafar Jackson as his late uncle, the biopic opened to a huge response back in April, bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,1604,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-532787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532787","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=532787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}