{"id":687708,"date":"2026-06-06T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:52:25","slug":"box-office-michael-becoming-lionsgates-highest-grossing-movie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687708\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Michael’ Becoming Lionsgate’s Highest-Grossing Movie Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tYou know it\u2019s a great summer when myriad studios are hitting all-time company records at the global box office. Lionsgate<\/a>, which fired up the heat wave this season with the Antoine Fuqua-directed Michael<\/a> with a $97.2M domestic, $217.4M worldwide start, will see the Michael Jackson biopic become its highest-grossing movie ever this weekend. Michael is going into its seventh weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael, which stands at $346.6M domestic through Thursday and well north of $508M abroad ($854.6M+ global), will pass the two top-grossing Lionsgate titles ever: 2013\u2019s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($865M WW) and 2012\u2019s Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn \u2013 Part 2 ($868.5M lifetime WW; $829.7M initial theatrical run gross). Universal<\/a> took foreign on Michael, sans Japan.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: As \u2018Michael 2\u2019 Comes Together, Lionsgate Film Chief Confident Studio Can Pull Off Another \u201cBig And Satisfying Movie For A Global Audience\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of which, that MJ-rich box office market, the last in the pic\u2019s overseas tour, finally will open on June 12 via local distributor Kino in partnership with Lionsgate. The second-highest-grossing territory outside U.S.\/Canada for Jackson\u2019s 2009 documentary, This Is It, was Japan at $57M, repping 21% of that Sony release\u2019s $267M-plus global gross. The expectation is that Japan not only will send Micheal across the nine-century worldwide mark but deliver the pic\u2019s producer Graham King a box office record that will beat his own, meaning Michael is poised to surpass GK\u2019s four-time Oscar winner Bohemian Rhapsody (which finaled at $911M WW) as the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlready the movie starring Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Miles Teller and Nia Long has outstripped the lifetime of Bohemian Rhapsody in several markets including domestic, the UK ($65M+), France ($51M+), Germany ($32M+), Mexico ($31M+), Brazil ($30M+), Australia ($29M+), Spain ($25M+), Italy ($28M+) and Netherlands ($13M+), to name a few.<\/p>\n

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

\n\tAt the domestic B.O., Michael passed Bohemian Rhapsody ($216.6M) as the highest-grossing musical biopic stateside back on its 16th day of release. The movie has had remarkable weekend holds, dipping by 44% in its second weekend, 30% in Weekend 3, 31% in Weekend 4, 21% in Weekend 5 and 43% in Weekend 6.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast weekend, Focus Features saw its highest-grossing movie ever at the domestic B.O. in Curry Barker\u2019s Obsession, that horror romance now at $126.5M domestic, and well north of $171M+ worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Michael\u2019 Director Antoine Fuqua On A Convo He Had With Michael Jackson, Reshoots, The Sequel & Choices Made About Pop Icon\u2019s Controversies: Q&A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know it\u2019s a great summer when myriad studios are hitting all-time company records at the global box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,14968,27354,206,14497],"class_list":["post-687708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-lionsgate","tag-michael","tag-movies","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687708","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=687708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}