In another win for a non-franchise title, Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic pulled off a moon walk for the ages at the worldwide box office with a record-smashing $97 million domestic opening and $120.4 million foreign launch for a global blast-off of $217.4 million.
Michael, coming in nearly $30 million ahead of expectations in North America, boasts the biggest domestic opening of all time for any biopic, and the biggest globally for a music biopic after stealing the show from Universal’s Straight Outta Compton ($60.1 million) and Fox’s Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody ($55 million), not adjusted for inflation.
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Other milestones: it marks Lionsgate‘s best debut since the pandemic and its sixth biggest ever. And it danced past the opening of fellow 2026 box office surprise Project Hail Mary to mark the second-biggest start of the year in North America behind Universal’s Super Mario sequel. (Don’t
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