{"id":250767,"date":"2025-11-08T06:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:48:11","slug":"debut-trailer-for-upcoming-michael-jackson-biopic-gets-huge-views-in-first-6-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250767\/","title":{"rendered":"Debut Trailer for Upcoming Michael Jackson Biopic Gets Huge Views in First 6 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

This might be a big one, folks. The first teaser trailer for the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic film Michael<\/a> has been released \u2014 and believe it or not, the sneak peek racked up a whopping 30 million views in its first six hours online. <\/p>\n

According to Deadline<\/a>, that\u2019s an incredible 50% more views than the trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4 managed to get in its first six hours after release. That says quite a bit about the audience\u2019s anticipation for the biopic, considering how much the masses love the John Wick series. The news of the teaser trailer\u2019s success was announced during yesterday\u2019s earnings call.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate motion picture chair Adam Fogelson also opened up about the status of the second part of Michael, which was split into two parts due both to its three and a half hour runtime and the fact that much of the second part focused on one of Jackson\u2019s accusers. The Jackson estate seemingly overlooked the detail that guarantees that accuser can never be dramatized or have their story dramatized as part of their settlement with the estate, which led to massive reshoots. <\/p>\n

\u201cSince the last time we worked together on an earnings call, we\u2019ve had the great pleasure of seeing the director\u2019s cut of the first film, and it is exceptional,\u201d Fogelson explained on the call. \u201cWhile we\u2019re not yet ready to confirm plans for a second film, I can tell you that the creative team is hard at work making sure that we\u2019re in a position to deliver more Michael soon after we release the first film.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added about the film and star Jaafar Jackson, Michael\u2019s nephew, \u201cPeople have been waiting a long time for this. I think people are stunned with Jaafar\u2019s performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film is directed by Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, written by John Logan, and produced by Graham King, who produced the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. It will hit theaters on April 24, 2026 \u2014 well, at least the first part. <\/p>\n

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This might be a big one, folks. The first teaser trailer for the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-250767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}