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"Michael", a biopic about Michael Jackson, is officially happening.

love1sfatal said:
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Michael: Songs From The Motion Picture by Michael Jackson

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Though I have to say my first reaction is disappointment.
This leaves hope and room for another project involving the unreleased stuff.
Which, if done correctly, will be even better than having one or two "new" songs on a soundtrack with 13 songs we already own multiple times
 
In response to the argument that this may not be the "soundtrack", it is possible - but no one has been announced as a composer. John Ottman (composer for Superman Returns, X-2, Days of Future Past etc) is "editing" the film but not listed as doing music. Bohemian Rhapsody had no score, but Ottman was involved in the music side of things.

If there was to be a separate soundtrack, the composer would have been announced a year ago. Also, if this was only a "companion" album and they do decide to release a more expanded soundtrack - why would they risk sales of either? Especially to damage sales for a proper soundtrack with a 58 minute compilation.

Anything is possible, but I just find this release so so strange - especially that it's getting a physical release (which a lot of movie soundtracks actually don't get nowadays). I'm hoping that it's not the only release because I have no intention of getting it myself.

"This album highlights 13 songs showcased in the film" is interesting. Especially that they will give us the Live 81 songs but not Live 84 songs.
 
Blues_Away2023 said:
Nothing wrong with the bog standard stuff for the biopic, my issue is there’s not enough of it. I’m at a loss at the thought of Rock With You not being included or even something tender like she’s out of my life. PYT is a big hit and no sign of that either, not that I expected a performance of it btw (cause there is none)
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Questionable compilation choices have been made since HIStory in the 90s though, it’s really not that unbelievable.
 
innuendo141 said:
Anything is possible, but I just find this release so so strange - especially that it's getting a physical release (which a lot of movie soundtracks actually don't get nowadays). I'm hoping that it's not the only release because I have no intention of getting it myself.
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Probably also some sort of royalty thing, to ensure Universal or whoever gets their cut of the pie in a way.
 
When they first postponed the realease date from last april to last october, they stated sth like autumn release being better timed for the awards season and tgey had high hopes for it. (Thats obviously not the case now, but I also find it hard to imagine that release date determines chances for awards.)
Anyway, they said they were hoping for an award for best song. It was discussed here that it would have to be a new song explicitly produced for the movie.
Now no news on that... it could be that 1 it was a marketing bluff, there is no such song, 2 that song will be in part two, 3 it will be a surprise that we could look forward to. What do you think?
 
Blues_Away2023 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2032494903909904736

Thoughts? Seems a little low for MJ surely? $52m - 65m+ opening
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I‘d expect this movie to not fall in the typical 1/3 (North America) 2/3 (international) market split.
I‘m thinking 20-25% from north american market, which would lead to a 225 - 275 world wide opening.
And then the movie needs to be very good, a good cinema score & good word of mouth for legs in the following weeks..
Plus Asia (China especially) COULD be very big with Michael.
 
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