{"id":554106,"date":"2026-04-27T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:40:08","slug":"michael-hits-high-note-in-global-opening-with-218-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554106\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Michael’ Hits High Note In Global Opening With $218.8 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael<\/a> came in higher in both its domestic and global take with $97.2 million in North America and $218.8M worldwide, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lionsgate<\/a>-produced and -released feature stateside saw a Sunday of $25.4M ($400,000 more than expected), which repped a -22% hold off Saturday\u2019s $32.4M.<\/p>\n

\n\tForeign was $121.6M from 82 territories versus the $120.3M reported Sunday by Universal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAgain, Michael is the second-biggest MPA global opening weekend of 2026 behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($372.5M). In like-for-like markets and today\u2019s exchange ranges, Michael\u2018s opening frame is the biggest ever for a musical biopic (and that\u2019s with and without previews, and with and without China).<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 25 Music Biopics About Whitney, Elvis, Tina, Elton, Queen & More, Plus Where To Stream Them<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn 64 territories, Michael notched the highest-grossing opening for a musical biopic, apart from China (now at $4.8M), where it opened just below\u00a0Bohemian Rhapsody.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s a lot of excitement about the first weekend of summer with 20th Century Studios\/Disney\u2019s The Devil Wears Prada 2, which tracking has as of this minute at $73M but advance ticket sales indicate higher. Disney decided to forgo the traditional Marvel movie launch to kick off the season.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: All The Songs In \u2018Michael\u2019: From \u2018I\u2019ll Be There\u2019 To \u2018Beat It\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIndustry sources expect Michael to do around $50M in weekend 2. That\u2019s a 49% ease. Graham King\u2019s Bohemian Rhapsody back in 2018 had a fantastic weekend 2 hold of -39% with $31.2M. Overall, Bohemian Rhapsody, off an A CinemaScore, did a 4.2x multiple off its $51M opening for a final stateside of $216.4M.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, the first weekend of summer did $144.2M, per Box Office Mojo, led by Marvel Studios\u2019 Thunderbolts* ($74.3M) and the third weekend of Sinners in second with $33.1M, followed by the fifth weekend of A Minecraft Movie in third with $13.7M.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Kat Graham Confirms Diana Ross Role Cut From Michael Jackson Biopic For \u201cCertain Legal Considerations\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Michael\u2019 Stars Explain Why Biopic Doesn\u2019t Include Child Abuse Allegations: \u201cThere Could Be A Sequel\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael came in higher in both its domestic and global take with $97.2 million in North America and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,28176,29683,187090,56,54,55,2831],"class_list":["post-554106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-lionsgate","tag-michael","tag-michael-movie","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554106","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=554106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}