{"id":637870,"date":"2026-06-14T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:11:10","slug":"michael-surpasses-bohemian-rhapsody-to-become-highest-grossing-music-biopic-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637870\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Michael\u2019 surpasses \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 to become highest grossing music biopic of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael<\/a>\u00a0has officially become the highest grossing music biopic of all time, surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film depicts the life of\u00a0Michael Jackson<\/a>, from his early involvement with the\u00a0Jackson 5<\/a>\u00a0in the 1960s up until the Bad World Tour in the late 1980s, and it sees the King of Pop\u2019s real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson taking on the title role.<\/p>\n

It opened in April to the largest every first weekend for a music biopic<\/a>, and now, Deadline <\/a>have confirmed that it has become the most lucrative music biopic ever made, clocking $911.9million (\u00a3680million) at the worldwide box office. Its recent release in Japan gives it a strong chance of passing the $1billion barrier, which only The Super Mario Galaxy Movie <\/a>has done so far in 2026.<\/p>\n

Bohemian Rhapsody, the 2018 film that told the story of\u00a0Freddie Mercury<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Queen<\/a>, earned a total of $910.9million (\u00a3679million). It was also produced by Graham King, the British mogul that is also one of the key producers on Michael.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lionsgate, who distributed the film in the US,\u00a0have confirmed that the sequel to\u00a0Michael\u00a0is moving forward<\/a>,\u00a0with\u00a0chairman\u00a0Adam Fogelson saying last month that the second entry may not follow chronologically from the end of the first film.<\/p>\n

The final scene of\u00a0Michael\u00a0sees Jackson performing at Wembley Stadium\u00a0in 1988, before a caption that reads: \u201cHis Story Continues\u201d.<\/p>\n

Any second film might be expected to tackle the child sex abuse allegations that were made against Jackson, something the original script for Michael originally did in its third act,\u00a0before a clause in a legal settlement was found that forbid the Jackson estate from mentioning Jordan Chandler<\/a>, one of the accusers. As a result, the film was forced into $50million of reshoots to change the ending of Michael.<\/p>\n

In a three-star review of\u00a0Michael<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0wrote: \u201cSo,\u00a0Michael\u00a0feels like a job well done: it\u2019s a slick, accessible advert for Jackson\u2019s incredible imperial phase. But if the singer\u2019s estate wanna be startin\u2019 somethin\u2019 bigger like a film franchise, they\u2019ll have their work cut out.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who made their own allegations of child sexual abuse by Jackson in the 2019 documentary\u00a0Leaving Neverland<\/a>,\u00a0have been given a new trial date for 2028<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael\u00a0has officially become the highest grossing music biopic of all time, surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody. The film depicts the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637870","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=637870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}