Michael Jackson biopic pushed back again by Lionsgate, due to legal 30 year old legal settlement

Nobody's going to watch a movie about this freak.

No films about this serial paedophile who raped and destroyed the lives of an untold number of little boys.

Wacko Jacko

The US had a Savile but mostly refused to believe it.

I thought no one would watch but MJ on Bway has been a massive hit. I’m sure the movie will be too,

His family has been amazing at making money off him even in death

The entire Jackson family are soulless grifters R5.

I LOVE his shades in OPS pic.

Anyone know what line/designer they're from?

R6 I was so shocked at how they made his funeral into this big televised event. It was so bizarre.

Such a weirdo.

This movie is going to be absolutely ridiculous. “An American Dream” was good because it ended when he still looked black and normal.

Anything after is going to look like a mess.

He spent the last 20 years of his life doing nothing. Basically what Britney Spears is doing.

I heard that Katherine Jackson gets a big chunk of the MJ royalties and then disperses that money to the unemployed Jacksons. This movie is probably is probably a last-ditch effort to make some more money off of Michael Jackson's legacy before she drops dead and all the money starts going straight to MJ's kids. She's 95.

Shamon!

what r5 said. As much as people say they won't see it, they will in huge numbers. Michael Jackson's life, all these years after his death, is still a trainwreck that people will watch.

Nia Long as Katherine should be interesting. His nephew must be a pretty good actor for Lionsgate to have him carry this movie. His voice is almost identical to Michael's.

r11 the estate has made a gazillion dollars since he died. The Jacksons, especially his remaining siblings, who are all practically seniors themselves at this point, are set.

R1, unfortunately he still has a lot of fans out there. I could see this doing well but I agree with r10. I don't know why they didn't just do a "young Michael" movie and end it after the Thriller era. Then they wouldn't have to worry about sidestepping the abuse allegations

I’d watch it after it was free on streaming

What’s it rated?

Any movie on the world’s #1 pedophile is cursed. How can they even release it knowing that MJ was a known pedophile? Greedy freaks.

Can we reopen the question, never answered in a previous thread, of what shamon means?

That’s not “shamon”, he’s actually saying “chomo”. It was a cry for help!

R13, what R11 says is what I have read about MJ’s estate. He did not leave anything to his brothers and sisters. Everything went to his three children; a small portion of the estate’s income went to his mother. Of course, the estate has now made so much money that a huge sum has been paid to Katherine. For most of his life MJ gave money to his mother with the understanding that she would pass it on to his brothers, but he did not want to talk to them.

Katherine Jackson looks like Weekend At Bernie’s these days.

What is up with his hairline in OP's photo?

Michael was getting around Bahrain in bedsheets when he died. Dying was the best thing he ever did for his career

[quote]For most of his life MJ gave money to his mother with the understanding that she would pass it on to his brothers, but he did not want to talk to them.

Why didn't he want to talk to his brothers? Did they give him grief about raping little boys?

Or about becoming a white woman?

r14 we've really already seen that story already with "The Jacksons", which now over 30 years old. Do we really need another puff piece?

I think this is why the existing footage will be split. The last 20 years of his life when he was seen as a total media spectacle is honestly more interesting: the marriage to Lisa Marie (who has now also kicked the bucket), the 30th anniversary special featuring skeleton thin Whitney Houston, dangling Blanket over the hotel balcony, the Martin Bashir era, the 2005 trial, all a huge trainwreck worthy of the big screen!

Unfortunately none of that will be portrayed onscreen

R26, yeah, but they won't be honest about that stuff because it's aimed at his delusional fans

Thank you r18 I agree

I understand not wanting to talk to the other Jacksons but it seems like Jacko was the worst of them. I’ve never heard the other ones were sexual predators.

R10 That’s not true. Yall are misremembering history. I notice it happens to people when they age. Michael Jackson released an album 9 years before he died. He realized 3 albums in the 90s, all hits. Even the 2001 album was a hit, just less so by MJ standards. He also toured, inconsistently, during that time period. Are yall forgetting he died in 2009 at the age of 50?

[quote] I heard that Katherine Jackson gets a big chunk of the MJ royalties and then disperses that money to the unemployed Jacksons.

In other words, all of them.

I hope the film addresses how the family subsided for years on Baja Fresh gift cards from Janet because she and her sicko brother wouldn’t feed the rest of the family.

The Jacksons are all vile garbage.

I hope they’re lots of love scenes with his wives and girlfriends. He really knew how to woo the ladies!

Who will play Debbie Rowe in the movie? How many fat, ugly, hostile blonde actresses will want that awful role?

Not to mention the nudity required to portray her steamy nights of passion with Michael.

“These accusations are categorically false!” 🤡

[quote] I was so shocked at how they made his funeral into this big televised event. It was so bizarre.

It was interesting how he could not get arrested (heh) before his death. He was persona non grata, his fans were a bunch of freaks, his music was corny.

But in his death he was reclaimed by the black community. I think the only white people of note at his memorial were Brooke Shields and John Mayer.

^ I remember Joan Rivers calling out Brooke for wanting nothing to do with him in his later years, then making a big deal about his death

Michael described Brooke as his "girlfriend" but Brooke said they NEVER had sex (of course)

He was a joke among all the young people I know in the 90s and 2000s but wasn’t he always big in Europe?

Yep, after a certain point he was bigger in Europe than in America

Europeans often have really questionable taste in music

Druggie and a pedo

[quote]I was so shocked at how they made his funeral into this big televised event. It was so bizarre.

r8 after Princess Diana set the standard for this type of thing, it really wasn't that bizarre. He was the still the most famous person alive in 2009.

Here on Datalounge, Michael Jackson and the saga surrounding his death and surviving children consumed the site. The paywall feature just started and DL was locked up for weeks. I remember we were still in the horrible Great Recession that summer; Im sure this was used as a distraction for many people.

He was very famous but I wouldn't call him the most famous person alive in 2009. He probably had the same level of fame as Paul McCartney, Springsteen, Madonna and many other big A-listers.

I may have to go over to Lipstick Alley so I can read about all that Black money ending up in the hands of his yt children.