'Michael' review: Resurrecting the King of Pop, sans complications - AP News

'Michael' review: Resurrecting the King of Pop, sans complications  AP News

Michael Jackson film is a 'whitewash' and 'ghoulish', critics say

A new biopic, titled Michael, sees the singer's nephew Jaafar Jackson portray his uncle's rise to fame.

Michael review – cliched Jackson biopic is bland, bowdlerised … and bad

Rammed with every music-movie cliche, an almost mute supporting cast and a Michael who only produces endless smiley blandness, this is a frustratingly shallow film Antoine Fuqua’s demi-biopic of Michael Jackson gives you the chimp, the llama, the giraffe … but not the elephant in the living room. It’s like a 127-minute trailer montage assembling every music-movie cliche you can think of: the producers’ astonishment in the recording studio, the tour bus, the billboard chart ascent, the meeting...

By Peter Bradshaw

Michael Jackson fans pack Hollywood for biopic premiere

Hollywood was clad in black and glittering sequins on Monday to host the Los Angeles premiere of Michael Jackson's biopic, drawing fans of the King of Pop to the iconic California boulevard.

Michael Jackson Biopic ‘Michael’ Debuts With A Dismal Rotten Tomatoes Score - Forbes

Michael Jackson Biopic ‘Michael’ Debuts With A Dismal Rotten Tomatoes Score  Forbes

Jaafar Jackson’s journey to portray his uncle, Michael Jackson, in the King of Pop’s biopic

Work on the production began several years ago and the movie covers the career of the legendary artist, omitting the darker episodes of his private life, such as accusations of child sexual abuse

By Elena Muñoz

LaToya Jackson Says Sister Janet ‘Kindly Declined’ to Be Portrayed in ‘Michael’: ‘I Wish Everybody Was in the Movie’

Where in the “Michael” world is Janet Jackson? The music superstar is nowhere to be seen as a character in the new Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic about her late brother. “I wish everybody was in the movie,” Jackson sibling LaToya Jackson told me Monday night at the film’s premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. “She […]

By Marcmalkin

‘Michael’ Team on Jackson Family’s Involvement in Biopic and Choosing to Tell an “Uplifting Story of His Triumph” Amid “Complicated Opinions” Around Star

The film, which follows Michael Jackson's early career and sees the King of Pop portrayed by nephew Jaafar Jackson, premiered in L.A. on Monday with lots of family support.

By Kirsten Chuba

Michael Jackson fans pack Hollywood for biopic premiere - The Straits Times

Michael Jackson fans pack Hollywood for biopic premiere  The Straits Times

‘Michael’ Won’t Stop ‘Til It Gets Enough: Michael Jackson Biopic Eyes $150M WW Debut – Preview

Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic after additional shoots will finally not ease down the road, rather boogie this weekend with what’s expected to be a $150 million global start. The feature, which carries a $200M production cost, in Lionsgate business fashion has foreign sold to mitigate risk, and that’s in the hands of Universal (sans Japan […]

By Anthonypauldalessandro

We Were Never Going to Get a Real Michael Jackson Biopic

Which still doesn't excuse Antoine Fuqua's heavily scrubbed origin story, which refashions the King of Pop's story into the Passion of St. Michael

By David Fear

Michael review: Jacko biopic is an extravagant PR exercise of glossy reconstructions and horrible wigs

And there we were thinking Melania, Brett Ratner’s mind-numbing documentary about the first lady of the United States was the year’s dreariest cinematic puff piece.

The first reviews are in for the Michael Jackson biopic. They're bad.

Critics as a whole did not hold back in their reviews for Michael, labelling the film as ‘shallow’, ‘dumb’, stilted’ and ‘bulls***’.

Questlove Says ‘Michael’ Biopic ‘Captured the Soul’ of Jackson, But He Had a Few Timeline Quibbles

"This project does the impossible: it strips away the spectacle and shows us the person," the Roots drummer said.

By Michael Saponara

Michael Jackson Lookalike Fabio Says Resemblance Has Fans Thinking MJ's Alive

Fabio Jackson is having a moment as the ultimate Michael Jackson lookalike ... and with the biopic buzz heating up, some fans are taking it way too seriously. We caught up with Fabio and his wife in L.A. Monday ... who told us about a wild run-in…

By TMZ Staff

Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred Review

An extremely satisfying conclusion to Diablo's latest demonic saga.

By Tom Marks

Jaafar Jackson Details Prince Jackson, Bigi Jackson’s Support for Film

This support knocked Jaafar Jackson off his feet.  As the son of Jermaine Jackson celebrated the premiere of the Michael biopic—which sees him portray his uncle Michael Jackson—in Germany on April...

‘Michael’ director Antoine Fuqua questions Jackson accusers’ integrity: “Sometimes people do nasty things for money”

The biopic of the artist is released this week The post ‘Michael’ director Antoine Fuqua questions Jackson accusers’ integrity: “Sometimes people do nasty things for money” appeared first on NME.

By Victoria Luxford

Michael Director Addresses Original 4-Hour Cut & Changes From "The Best Editors In The World"

EXCLUSIVE: The Michael Jackson biopic Michael was originally four hours long, with director Antoine Fuqua now explaining how he pared it down.

By Jeff Dodge

Michael Jackson fans pack Hollywood for biopic premiere

Fans and family gather for the premiere of ‘Michael,’ the Michael Jackson biopic. See what director Antoine Fuqua and star Jaafar Jackson had to say. Read More: https://punchng.com/michael-jackson-fans-pack-hollywood-for-biopic-premiere/

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Michael Jackson fans pack Hollywood for biopic premiere - Kuwait Times

Michael Jackson fans pack Hollywood for biopic premiere  Kuwait Times