I don't know either and its baffling, confusing, annoying, depressing and did I say baffling? I guess just in thinking out loud here, personally, here is what I currently am wishing we could or would do and I'd like to know what anyone thinks:
The movie is scheduled to be out for 2 weeks. In my opinion that is a 'test' period to see how well the movie does. I feel that just as with the 10/50 concert situation, if this movie does surprisingly well, they will let it run into infinity, and why not if AEG owns the movie houses.
So, MJ fans who either already have tickets, or already have strong desires/plans, to see this movie could go to see it the first DAY or TWO - then immediately let other fans know ALL about the movie, almost to the point of making transcripts.
At least that could minimize the amount of fans who will need to have their curiosity satisfied thereby reducing the numbers of fans who will attend an actual showing. If fans agreed to this all across the fan boards, we could make a difference in the profits AEG projects to make.
That will be 1 or 2 less dollars in AEG's pockets. I have been feeling a little torn, worrying about the money it may also reduce from MJ's estate, but I don't believe the estate is hurting for money at this point!
I realize I know not the details of what all is involved, this is me going by my feelings about things. I just wanted to say that because I cautiously do not want to in any way "hurt" MJ by trying to think of protecting him.
An opposite way of looking at it:
If Michael was planning to make this film to begin with, to be released on DVD, then his desire would be for us to support it.
The only thing about that is, I don't believe that when Michael agreed to do the DVD, he was planning on AEG plotting his demise.
Another problem is this is only theory and nobody knows for a fact whether AEG had anything to do with it or not, just because they were paying the doctor, claiming MJ insisted on this doctor he'd only known three years, trusting him to put him into a potentially lethal sleep every night, living in a house AEG was paying the rent on, waking up from 10 concerts to 50, AEG claiming Michael wanted to compete with Prince when MJ always said he only competes with himself, claiming MJ wanted to be in the Guiness book for these record number of attendances when he himself hadn't planned on but 10 concerts initially, AEG looking ahead 3 years when MJ said in Ebony he didn't want to spend the next decade of his life touring, then the fans who saw him saying he didn't look right ...
...it all looks very suspicious and for all we know could conceivably be part of the reason AEG is rushing this project out so fast ...
before they can get caught up in a vortex of suspicion? I don't know. I just know that I believe it might be best if we could err on the side of caution and not go great guns with lining AEG's pockets because that is clearly what they care about.
The fact that they had a ticket lottery for the memorial presented at their Staple Center where MJ was rehearsing for a concert series that his fans had sold out, without so much as acknowledging MJ's fans per se, and without so much as acknowledging MJ's departure with heartfelt sentiments just buggs me personally. On top of that advertising this thing so widely and so aggressively while MJ's fans are still baffled and bewildered about what happened to him! Not to mention grieving.
The estate is going to make it hand over fist from the music sales as it is and should be just find imho, and there's no telling what partnership deals haven't been struck between AEG and Sony... so...I don't know either wendyjane ... I just think we need to be mindful.
All I know is that if AEG had anything to do with wanting Michael gone we don't want to give them anymore than we have to, and we don't want to give them any of what they expect we will.
We are "IT". MJ fans. We are "IT" so we do need to be mindful and not subject ourselves to reacting to "commercials", which is what they seem to have reduced MJ to imho.