‘Michael’ Streaming Shifts To STARZ This Week As Sequel Filming Nears

Jaafar Jackson arsenic Michael Jackson successful "Michael."

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The Michael Jackson biopic Michael, starring the precocious popular icon’s real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson, originates its streaming video connected request tally connected STARZ this week arsenic accumulation connected Michael 2 looms.

Jaafar Jackson, who is the boy of Jermaine Jackson, stars arsenic the King of Pop successful his teen and big years successful Michael, while Juliano Valde plays the vocalist arsenic a 10-year-old pinch his brothers successful the Jackson Five. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the movie besides stars Colman Domingo and Nia Long arsenic the singer’s parents, Joe and Katherine Jackson, and Miles Teller arsenic Michael Jackson’s longtime head John Branca.

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Produced by Lionsgate, Michael premiered successful theaters connected April 24 and debuted on integer streaming via premium video connected request connected June 9. Along the way, Michael became the highest-grossing music biopic of each clip (beating retired the Freddy Mercury and Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody) successful June and crossed the $1 cardinal mark astatine the worldwide container agency successful July. The movie wrapped up its home theatrical tally connected July 23 pinch $372.3 cardinal successful summons sales, and its world container agency tally stands astatine $1.020 billion.

Now, pursuing the film’s blockbuster tally successful theaters and connected PVOD, Michael will make its streaming video connected request premiere connected the STARZ app connected Monday, Aug. 10. For viewers who don’t subscribe to the streaming app, the work provides ad-free programming for $7.99 per period aliases $74.99 per year.

Michael will premiere connected STARZ’s cablegram transmission connected Aug. 10 astatine 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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Michael chronicles the singer’s life from the emergence of the Jackson Five done his life arsenic a multiplatinum creator done the releases of his Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad albums. The movie concludes successful 1988 arsenic Jackson originates his Bad tour, and per the committedness connected the title paper pursuing the last segment successful the movie — “HIS communicative continues” — Michael 2 is up next.

During Lionsgate’s quarterly net telephone connected Thursday, the studio’s movie section chief, Adam Fogelson, said (via Variety) that filming for Michael 2 would statesman astatine “the extremity of this twelvemonth aliases early next.”

While Michael had a accumulation fund of $200 cardinal earlier trading costs (via Deadline), Fogelson said during the net telephone that he wasn’t capable to talk the sequel’s value tag conscionable yet. He did note, however, that scenes changeable for the original movie would apt beryllium utilized for the sequel.

“We do person a number of sequences, peculiarly immoderate large philharmonic sequences, that were changeable previously, that are almost judge to beryllium incorporated but we are mostly focused correct now connected really to make judge we tin deliver, astatine the correct price, the biggest, champion sequel,” Fogelson told investors. “That is what the assemblage is going to want and merit aft the acquisition we gave them the first time.”

Rated PG-13, Michael arrives connected SVOD connected STARZ connected Monday. The Michael Jackson biopic is presently disposable to acquisition aliases rent connected integer streaming.