{"id":694489,"date":"2026-06-09T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:44:12","slug":"box-office-michael-crosses-900m-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694489\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: &#8216;Michael&#8217; Crosses $900M Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lionsgate\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lionsgate\" data-tag=\"lionsgate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionsgate<\/a>\u2018s highest grossing movie ever in its history is even more so as expected: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael\" data-tag=\"michael\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael<\/a> has crossed $900M worldwide we hear. The Michael Jackson biopic is within $11M of overtaking Michael producer Graham King\u2019s previous record grossing movie, Bohemian Rhapsody ($911M WW). Once that happens, Michael will be the highest grossing musical biopic ever. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUniversal has the license on overseas theatrical as you well know, with the pic well north of internationally of $544.8M, and with a running domestic of $355.2M. Lionsgate has Russia via Volga, where the pic has grossed $10M. The movie opens through Kino, in partnership with Lionsgate, this Friday where Michael will give a new definition to easing on the road, with a potential shot at $1 billion. Michael before global P&amp;A spend cost $200M-plus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCurrently, in its seventh week of release, Michael\u2019s top grossing territories are as follows, the movie having beaten Bohemian Rhapsody in many of them: UK ($68M), France ($54.3M), Germany ($34.4M), Brazil ($32.2M), Mexico ($31.4M), Australia  ($30.7M), Italy ($29.1M), Spain ($26.1M), Colombia ($14.3M), Netherlands ($14M), Korea ($11.2M), China ($10.3M), Russia ($10M), UAE ($9.7M), Peru ($9.6M), India ($8.3M), Switzerland ($8M), and Belgium ($7.4M).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate\u2018s highest grossing movie ever in its history is even more so as expected: Michael has crossed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,14968,27354,206],"class_list":["post-694489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-lionsgate","tag-michael","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694489","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=694489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}