The Michael Jackson biopic Michael will hit theaters on April 18, 2025, the film’s distributor Lionsgate announced on Thursday, with Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson set to portray the King of Pop in the movie. Antoine Fuqua, director of the Equalizer trilogy as well as the films Emancipation and Southpaw among …
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A new documentary, The Greatest Night in Pop, will dig into the history of the 1985 charity smash, “We Are the World.” The film will have its premiere at Sundance on Jan. 19 and then hit Netflix not long after on Jan. 29. Directed by Bao Nguyen, The Greatest Night …
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More than two dozen analog master tapes capturing Michael Jackson singing songs at The Hit Factory recording studio in New York in 1994 have been scrubbed from an auction site after a lawyer representing the singer’s estate threatened a lawsuit this week, Rolling Stone confirmed. The rare recordings purportedly feature …
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Two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused when they were children can resume their lawsuits against companies owned by the singer, a California appeals court ruled on Friday. The alleged victims featured in HBO’s two-part documentary,Leaving Neverland, and both claimed Jackson, who died in 2009, groomed and sexually abused …
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Six years ago, an episode of Urban Myths was pulled from the series after Joseph Fiennes’ portrayal of Michael Jackson was deemed inappropriate and disrespectful by the late musician’s fans and family. Now, he finally sees where they were coming from. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the actor …
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Money may very well equal power, but so does information — especially the dirty kind. Hollywood understands this. From The Sweet Smell of Success to L.A. Confidential, the movies are laden with bullying blackmailers and influence-peddlers using muscle and corruption to scrub the tainted and gain an upper hand. The …
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J ust before 2 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 8, David Kessler was in his room at a hotel near Graceland when he heard a knock on his door. It was his friend Lisa Marie Presley. “Let’s go out,” she said. It was time to visit her father …
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Lisa Marie Presley was the closest thing America had to royalty. She was a rock & roll princess, the only daughter of a King. But the rarified existence that Elvis’ fame and success afforded her also confined her —and perhaps presaged her death in January at 54. In an exhaustive …
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The director of Leaving Neverland, the 2019 documentary that accused Michael Jackson of child sexual abuse, has penned an op-ed slamming plans to make an authorized biopic about the King of Pop. Writing in the Guardian, filmmaker Dan Reed said that the movie “will glorify a man who raped children.” …
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Jaafar Jackson will portray his uncle Michael Jackson in the upcoming Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic, Michael. The film is being touted to explore all aspects of the pop icon’s life, “including his most iconic performances that led him to become the greatest entertainer of all time,” as the studio noted to …
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