{"id":704078,"date":"2026-06-14T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704078\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:27:09","slug":"michael-becomes-highest-grossing-music-biopic-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704078\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Becomes Highest-Grossing Music Biopic in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than two months after it premiered on April 24, Michael has become the highest-grossing biopic on a musician of all time. Deadline<\/a> reports that the Antoine Fuqua-directed Michael Jackson biopic, which stars the late star\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the titular role, has brought in $911.9 million worldwide, surpassing 2018\u2019s Bohemian Rhapsody. Both films, notably, were produced by the same man, Graham King.<\/p>\n

Per Deadline, Michael has also set a number of other records, including securing the largest global opening weekend sales ever for a music biopic. It\u2019s the second-highest grossing film of 2026 thus far, following Universal, Illumination and Nintendo\u2019s\u00a0The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it’s also the second-highest grossing biopic ever, behind Christopher Nolan\u2019s 2025 film Oppenheimer.<\/p>\n

Michael, which has been approved by the Jackson estate, was originally slated for a 2025 release. But that date was postponed due to a clause in a settlement with Jordan Chandler, who accused Jackson of sexual abuse in 1993. His deal with the Jackson estate contained a stipulation forbidding any depiction of him in a future film. Michael\u2019s original ending reportedly focused on Chandler\u2019s allegations, and the process of rewriting and reshooting a new third act, which follows the singer as he prepares for a massive solo tour in support of 1987\u2019s Bad, cost<\/a> between $10 million and $15 million.<\/p>\n

Read Paul Thompson\u2019s review Michael Review: Bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than two months after it premiered on April 24, Michael has become the highest-grossing biopic on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,27355,206,3,14065,777],"class_list":["post-704078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-jackson","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704078","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=704078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}