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Michael is set to hit theaters and Imax<\/a> on April 24 after its release was delayed several times, most recently having been dated for the fall of 2025. Marking his feature debut is Jackson<\/a>\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson<\/a> in the lead role as the pop music icon. Lionsgate is distributing the movie domestically, while Universal<\/a> handles the global launch.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a very spiritual journey, making a movie about someone like Michael,\u201d Fuqua says in a video that Lionsgate released Monday. \u201cMichael was a big influence on my career as a director, seeing how he refused to get put in a box as just a Black artist only.\u201d<\/p>\n Fuqua\u2019s movie debuted its latest trailer earlier this month. Michael co-stars Colman Domingo<\/a> as the singer\u2019s father, Joe Jackson<\/a>, and Nia Long<\/a> as his mother, Katherine<\/a>. Rounding out the cast are Miles Teller<\/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":" Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is sharing his perspective about Lionsgate\u2019s forthcoming Michael Jackson biopic. Michael is set to hit theaters and Imax on April 24 after its release was delayed several times, most recently having been dated for the fall of 2025. Marking his feature debut is Jackson\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the lead role as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2296914,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2296913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/2026\/02\/\u2018Michael-Director-Antoine-Fuqua-Making-Michael-Jackson-Biopic-Was-Spiritual.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296913","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=2296913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296915,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296913\/revisions\/2296915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}