{"id":607664,"date":"2026-04-26T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:43:11","slug":"antoine-fuqua-reportedly-got-15-million-for-michael-reshoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607664\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Fuqua reportedly got $15 million for Michael reshoots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The issues<\/a> surrounding the filming of Michael Jackson biopic Michael<\/a>\u2018s third act have been well-documented<\/a> at this point\u2014i.e., the bit where the whole thing had to be largely thrown out and re-shot, after the Jackson Estate only noticed, after\u00a0the scenes were filmed, that Antoine Fuqua\u2019s film was putting much of its late focus on allegations of sexual abuse from Jordan Chandler, who had a settlement saying the Estate could never mention him in commercial projects about Jackson\u2019s life. What has been less talked about is how the reshoots (which ended up removing all references to the multiple allegations of pedophilia against Jackson over the years) wound up being a bit of a windfall for Fuqua and producer Graham King, with THR\u00a0noting today<\/a> that Fuqua more than doubled his payday for the movie\u2014from an initial $10 million to a reported $25 million\u2014when he agreed to the 22 days of reshoots required to \u201cfix\u201d the film.<\/p>\n

To be very specific\u2014per reporting in Bloomberg<\/a>, and sources quoted by THR\u2014both Fuqua and King apparently had to postpone future projects when the reshoots were ordered, at which point new payments to them, taken as advances against the film\u2019s royalties, were added to the movie\u2019s already considerable $150 million budget. (Directors and producers often get paid with advances like this, which basically mean they don\u2019t earn royalties on a movie until the amount they\u2019d get is above whatever the initial payment was; still, it\u2019s an extra influx of immediate cash, which also usually doesn\u2019t have to be paid back if the film underperforms.) (Not that\u00a0Michael\u00a0is likely to, as filmgoers are apparently falling over themselves<\/a> to ignore reality in favor of Fuqua\u2019s greatest hits compilation of the pop superstar\u2019s life.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The upshot of it all is that while stripping the pedophilia allegations out of\u00a0Michael\u00a0may have been, as previously reported, a \u201ccomplete nightmare\u201d creatively, it was actually a pretty neat trick, financially.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The issues surrounding the filming of Michael Jackson biopic Michael\u2018s third act have been well-documented at this point\u2014i.e.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":{"0":"post-607664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607664","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=607664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}