a more one-dimensional view of the singer<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe original cut of the movie did reportedly include a third act that discussed allegations from 1993, which Jackson denied. But it had to be scrapped due to stipulations in a settlement with one of the accusers, forcing filmmakers to craft a new ending. <\/p>\n
\u201cMichael\u201d chronicles Jackson\u2019s life through the rise of The Jackson 5 and his budding solo career before ending in 1988 while he\u2019s on tour for his hit album, \u201cBad.\u201d The film stars Colman Domingo as the late singer\u2019s father, Joe Jackson, and Nia Long as his mother, Katherine.<\/p>\n
The film was produced by Graham King, who was behind the 2018 Freddie Mercury biopic \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d and directed by Antoine Fuqua of \u201cThe Equalizer\u201d franchise and 2001\u2019s \u201cTraining Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jackson family was also heavily involved in the film, with several of Jackson\u2019s siblings, as well as his son Prince, attending the U.S. premiere last week at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope my uncle Michael\u2019s smiling from above,\u201d Jaafar Jackson said in a brief on-stage speech at the premiere. \u201cI wanted to make sure I captured his essence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d came in second at the box office with $21.2 million. \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d rounded out the top three with $13.2 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMichael,\u201d the Michael Jackson biopic from Lionsgate, had a massive opening weekend with a box office haul of $97 million in the U.S. and Canada. The film, which stars Jackson\u2019s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, as the late singer, beat studio expectations of a $65 million to $70 million debut. Globally, the movie brought in just over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2390199,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-moonwalks-into-a-big-box-office-debut.com2Fe12F882Fb130dbc741d1a43ad7101262.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390198","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=2390198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390200,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390198\/revisions\/2390200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}