Filming for the forthcoming Michael Jackson biopic Michael wrapped in May 2024. Now, its cast and crew are being called back in to re-shoot scenes that shape a significant portion of the third act. While they get their schedules aligned once again, Lionsgate is waiting on a new script rewritten …
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Nearly two months after the death of Tito Jackson, the Jackson 5 singer was laid to rest Monday in the same cemetery as his brother and band mate Michael Jackson. Tito was buried during a private ceremony at Glendale, California’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where family patriarch Joe Jackson was …
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You can hear the influence of Quincy Jones, who died Sunday, in practically every genre of music. In the music of Stevie Wonder — who grew up listening to Jones’ own records and work with Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and others — Jones’ influence lives strongest in the …
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Jamie Foxx has joined the likes of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Toto’s Steve Lukather, and others who have paid tribute to the “peerless music producer” Quincy Jones in the wake of his death at the age of 91. In his own post, Foxx thanked the late producer for his indelible …
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The Michael Jackson biopic Michael will hit theaters Oct. 3, about six months after the film’s expected release date, the film’s distributor Lionsgate announced Tuesday. Antoine Fuqua, the director behind the Equalizer trilogy, Emancipation, and SouthPaw, will direct the biopic, which received approval from the Jackson estate. The executors of …
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Quincy Jones, the musical polymath who contributed to remarkable albums in jazz, soul, and funk as well as several of the biggest pop LPs of the 20th century — most notably producing Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad albums — died at his home in Bel Air, California, …
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Tito Jackson, who sang and danced with brothers Michael, Jermaine, Jackie, and Marlon as a founding member of the family group Jackson 5, died Sunday. He was 70. Steve Manning, a longtime friend of the family, told Entertainment Tonight that Jackson died while traveling on a road trip, but a …
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A judge sided with Michael Jackson’s estate Thursday and blocked an attempt by accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck to obtain “the entirety of the criminal file” involving child molestation allegations leveled against the singer in two California counties since the early Nineties. Photographs of Jackson’s nude body and genitalia …
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A California appellate court handed a victory to Michael Jackson’s estate executors Wednesday, issuing a final written opinion confirming the singer’s mom Katherine Jackson had no basis to challenge a lower court’s blessing of a $600 million catalog deal with Sony. The new opinion, which essentially adopted a tentative ruling …
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On the evening of Feb. 28, 1984, Prince was at home, watching Michael Jackson become the first artist to win eight Grammys in a single night, including Album of the Year for Thriller. When the broadcast was over, Prince turned to Bobby Z, his longtime friend and drummer for the …
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