{"id":2481053,"date":"2026-06-29T21:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2481053"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:15:01","slug":"michael-is-now-the-highest-grossing-biopic-of-all-time-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-is-now-the-highest-grossing-biopic-of-all-time-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Michael’ is now the highest-grossing biopic of all time | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Michael Jackson movie has moonwalked into the record books once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michael<\/em> has taken in $977 million worldwide. That surpasses the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer<\/em>, which raked in $975 million globally. Michael<\/em> had already become the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time, out-earning the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 but now it’s tops among all biographical films.<\/p>\n

Michael\u00a0<\/em>opened in April with an impressive $217 million globally. As per Variety<\/em><\/a>, it’s now become Lionsgate’s biggest movie of all time, surpassing 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,<\/em> which earned $865 million.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate is reportedly planning on at least one more movie about Jackson’s life, since Michael<\/em> ends in 1988. The King of Pop died in June 2009.<\/p>\n

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‘Michael’ (Courtesy of Lionsgate) The Michael Jackson movie has moonwalked into the record books once again.\u00a0 Michael has taken in $977 million worldwide. That surpasses the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer, which raked in $975 million globally. Michael had already become the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time, out-earning the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody\u00a0\u2014 but now it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2481054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2481053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Michael-is-now-the-highest-grossing-biopic-of-all-time.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481053","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=2481053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481055,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481053\/revisions\/2481055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}