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Lionsgate<\/a> released the first official teaser trailer for the forthcoming Michael Jackson<\/a> biopic, Michael, on Thursday. And after its initial 24 hours, the views racked up to 116.2 million globally, according to WaveMetrix, making it the most-viewed trailer for any music biopic in history and now holding the title for Lionsgate as the studio\u2019s largest trailer debut.<\/p>\n Jaafar Jackson<\/a>, nephew of the late Michael Jackson, stars as the King of Pop. In the first footage, Jaafar<\/a> is seen recreating the musician\u2019s iconic dance moves, such as the moonwalk, and it also teases a clip of the \u201cThriller\u201d music video. The trailer will play in theaters starting next week.<\/p>\n Additional castmembers include Miles Teller<\/a> as attorney John Branca<\/a>, Colman Domingo<\/a> as Joe Jackson<\/a>, Kat Graham<\/a> as Diana Ross<\/a>, Nia Long<\/a> as Katherine Jackson<\/a>, Laura Harrier<\/a> as Suzanne de Passe<\/a>, Kendrick Sampson<\/a> as Quincy Jones<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael is already leaving an impact on viewers. Lionsgate released the first official teaser trailer for the forthcoming Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, on Thursday. And after its initial 24 hours, the views racked up to 116.2 million globally, according to WaveMetrix, making it the most-viewed trailer for any music biopic in history and now holding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2143266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2143265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lionsgates-\u2018Michael-Trailer-Becomes-Most-Watched-Music-Biopic-Launch-With-1162M.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143267,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143265\/revisions\/2143267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}