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‘Michael’ is Now Lionsgate’s Most Successful Movie Ever

‘Michael’ is Now Lionsgate’s Most Successful Movie Ever

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Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic sensation continues dancing past its competition to become Lionsgate’s highest-grossing movie of all time.

The summer box office is already heating up, and Michael Jackson continues to sizzle on the big screen. The Antoine Fuqua-directed Michael has raked in $97.2 million domestically and $217.4 million worldwide in its opening week, and now stands at $346.6 million domestically and over $508 million abroad—making for over $854.6 million globally as of Thursday.

But this weekend, the film is poised to surpass the two top-grossing Lionsgate titles of all time: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($865 million worldwide) from 2013 and Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 ($868.5 million worldwide) from 2012. That’s impressive for a biopic, as well as for a film that isn’t a sequel to a successful franchise.

Michael will also finally open in Japan on June 12, its final stop on its overseas tour. Universal was responsible for the film’s distribution in foreign markets with the exception of Japan, where local distributor Kino released it in partnership with Lionsgate. That market is famously big for Michael Jackson, and is expected to send the film across the $900 million mark.

It’s also expected to tip the film over the edge into surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody ($911 million worldwide) as the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time. The MJ movie has already outpaced the lifetime of the Queen biopic in several markets, including the United States, the UK ($65 million), France ($51 million), Germany ($32 million), Mexico ($31 million), Brazil ($30 million), Australia ($29 million), Spain ($25 million), Italy ($28 million), and the Netherlands ($13 million).

On its 16th day of release, Michael had already passed Bohemian Rhapsody as the highest-grossing musical biopic in the U.S. It’s had an impressive run each week since its release, with its lowest dip in attendance coming in its second week with 44%.