{"id":59299,"date":"2026-04-11T04:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/59299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:47:07","slug":"michael-jackson-fans-travel-thousands-of-miles-swarm-berlin-for-michael-biopic-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/59299\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson fans travel thousands of miles, swarm Berlin for Michael biopic premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Michael Jackson<\/a> fans descended on Berlin on Friday for the premiere of a new biopic about the King of Pop, undeterred by child sex abuse allegations that continue to haunt the star.<\/p>\n

\"JaafarJaafar Jackson plays uncle Michael Jackson in Michael.Michael premiere in Berlin sees fans throng German capital<\/p>\n

Michael, in which the singer is portrayed by his nephew Jaafar Jackson, is expected to be one of the highest-grossing films of its kind in history.<\/p>\n

In the queue for the screening, Andy Escobar, a 31-year-old aircraft mechanic from the United States, said his nickname at school was MJ — “because everybody knew that I was a Michael Jackson fan”.<\/p>\n

Asked about the child abuse allegations, Escobar said simply: “We know that’s not true.”<\/p>\n

“He was found not guilty,” added Megane Kittler, a 31-year-old educator from France who lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Only around 4,000 fans will actually be able to watch the film on Friday evening, two weeks before its official release, after being allocated seats via prize draws.<\/p>\n

For the rest, there will be Michael Jackson-themed activities throughout the weekend including panel discussions with the film crew, an exhibition dedicated to the singer and themed parties.<\/p>\n

Jackson, who died aged 50 in 2009 from an overdose of propofol, faced multiple allegations of child sex abuse during his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Michael release pushed back<\/p>\n

Despite his 2005 acquittal in a criminal trial for child molestation, the star never managed to restore his image while alive.<\/p>\n

Other alleged victims filed civil lawsuits after his death, and several proceedings are ongoing. The artist has never been convicted in a criminal or civil court.<\/p>\n

Michael was originally intended to explore the impact of the allegations on the star, according to industry magazine Variety, citing unnamed sources “with knowledge of the production”.<\/p>\n

However, a third of the film was cut after lawyers for the Jackson estate realised there was a clause in a settlement with one of the singer’s accusers that barred any mention of him in a film, the magazine said. As a result, large parts of the film had to be rewritten, and the release — originally scheduled for April 18, 2025 — was pushed back.<\/p>\n

Film studio Lionsgate is banking on $700 million in global box-office receipts for the feature-length film. That figure would far surpass other productions in the same genre except for the Freddie Mercury-inspired Bohemian Rhapsody, which took in $910 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Michael Jackson fans descended on Berlin on Friday for the premiere of a new biopic about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,23987,32661,190,32662,31681,23988],"class_list":{"0":"post-59299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-biopic","10":"tag-child-sex-abuse-allegations","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-highest-grossing-films","13":"tag-jaafar-jackson","14":"tag-michael-jackson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116384264776737100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}