‘Michael’ inches closer to becoming highest grossing musical biopic

Michael Jackson’s musical biopic, which stars the late global sensation’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as him, has exceeded expectations when it comes to its box office success.

The film has earned an impressive $788 million worldwide, despite not being released in Japan as of yet, and might become the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time.

It is a record currently held by the 2018 Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which generated $911 million, with the Queen front man played by Rami Malek.

The Antoine Fuqua directed movie has quickly become one of the biggest movies of 2026 and continues to show remarkable staying power weeks into its theatrical run, with a reported sequel also being on the way.

Meanwhile another highly anticipated film that was released around the same time is The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is also achieving significant milestones.

It has crossed the $600 million mark worldwide, and opened to impressive numbers worldwide transcending prior estimates made on the basis of the Meryl Streep movie being a comedy-drama follow-up arriving two decades after the original film.

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