{"id":361821,"date":"2025-11-07T08:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:57:18","slug":"michael-jackson-movie-could-be-split-in-two-lionsgate-boss-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361821\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Movie Could Be Split in Two, Lionsgate Boss Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael, the upcoming Michael Jackson<\/a> biopic, looks likely to be expanded across two features, judging by the latest comments from Lionsgate<\/a> execs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhile we\u2019re not yet ready to confirm plans for a second film, I can tell you that the creative team is hard at work making sure that we\u2019re in a position to deliver more\u00a0Michael\u00a0soon after we release the first film,\u201d Adam Fogelson, chair of the studio\u2019s Motion Picture Group, told analysts on Thursday during a call after releasing Lionsgate\u2019s second quarter financial results.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector\u00a0Antoine Fuqua<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0biopic\u00a0is set to hit theaters and Imax on April 24, 2026, after\u00a0its release was delayed<\/a>\u00a0several times, most recently having been dated for the fall of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNews that Lionsgate was considering splitting the movie in two was first outlined in a Puck report in January. The outlet noted the film\u2019s third act needed reworking, as it depicted a Jackson accuser who previously was guaranteed he would never be featured in a dramatized per a past settlement with the Jackson estate.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe studio earlier on Thursday dropped the first official teaser for the musical drama as Lionsgate kicks off its marketing campaign for the upcoming release.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSince the last time we were together on an earnings call, we have now had the great pleasure of seeing the director\u2019s cut of the first film, and it is exceptional,\u201d Fogelson reported. Marking his feature debut is\u00a0Jaafar Jackson<\/a>, the nephew of Michael Jackson, in the lead role as the pop\u00a0music<\/a>\u00a0icon.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe teaser features Jaafar Jackson recreating dance moves on stage or from memorable music videos. The official trailer will play in theaters starting next week,\u00a0just before\u00a0Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t\u00a0screenings.<\/p>\n

\n\tFogelson said the early response to the Michael teaser was positive. \u201cPeople have been waiting a long time for this. And we have seen wild enthusiasm. I think people are stunned with Jaafar\u2019s performance, even in the short amount that is in this relatively brief teaser,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf you look at the top tier musical biopics, you get a pretty good sense of what the range is, and anything in any version of that is going to be a huge success,\u201d Fogelson added of the production for Michael led by producer Graham King.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael, the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic, looks likely to be expanded across two features, judging by the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[59362,171,12262,1018,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-361821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-antoine-fuqua","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lionsgate","11":"tag-michael-jackson","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115507589598632787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}