{"id":600408,"date":"2026-04-22T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:16:08","slug":"michael-jacksons-nephew-slams-media-ahead-of-biopic-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600408\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson’s Nephew Slams Media Ahead of Biopic Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJust ahead of the Friday release of the Michael Jackson biopic \u201cMichael,\u201d a<\/a> family member has taken gleeful aim at the media in a series of posts.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaj Jackson, Michael<\/a>\u2019s nephew and the son of Jackson 5 member Tito, took to Twitter\/X to jeer <\/a>at the media writ large on Tuesday, saying it can no longer \u201ccontrol the narrative anymore of who Michael Jackson<\/a> truly was. The public gets to watch this movie\u2026 they will decide for themselves,\u201d before closing with: \u201cAnd you can\u2019t handle that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced in part by Michael Jackson\u2019s estate, covers the King of Pop\u2019s life from 10-year-old member of the Jackson 5 through to the apex of his popularity \u2013 somewhere around 1988, when he was 30 years old and touring behind the epochal album Bad.<\/p>\n

\n\tOriginally, the film extended further into the future, addressing the shocking 1993 accusations of child molestation levied against Michael Jackson and the subsequent investigation. However, lawyers from the Jackson Estate found that a settlement with one accuser had precluded any depiction or mention of them in a film. The discovery meant a new third act had to be developed, requiring 22 days of reshoots at the cost of $15-20 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier reporting from Variety shows predictions of a $65-70 million domestic opening for Michael with hopes for a $700 million overall, worldwide. The film currently sits at 37% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from an aggregation of critics\u2019 reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCan\u2019t wait \u2018till some critics have to eat crow,\u201d Taj Jackson continued, adding, \u201cAnd yes I will be that petty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just ahead of the Friday release of the Michael Jackson biopic \u201cMichael,\u201d a family member has taken gleeful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,27354,27355,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-600408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-michael","10":"tag-michael-jackson","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}