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Michael Jackson's Estate Wants to Keep Thrilling

if we sign a petition asking for the release of 1987-88 BAD tour concerts be released on DVD Blue Ray in 2012. this is a good way for the younger generation to see and here the Majic of Michael before time passes,and make a ton of money at the same time. I would love to hold that Magic in my hands. just a thought.
 
Michael deserves credit for his estate. He created it from hard work and dedication. He was smart enough to pick 2 people he knew could handle his affairs and the way he set up things for his children shows how much thought he put in their future. I hope his estate grows stronger and stronger over the years.

P.S.- I would love the bad tour dvd or blue ray. They have to know how much fans would love this and it would also be great for non fans to see too.
 
Jackson left behind enough music for one more album, according to a person with knowledge of the singer’s business.
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And that would be ... the rest of Cascios tracks? :hysterical:

paisleyCUTtop;3573435 said:
i think there are tons more songs but, they are gonna play this game right and space things out.
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Exactly, they want us to believe there's almost nothing left and try to make us buy a few fakes first.
 
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I wonder what they learnded from the Elvis-Estate. Half of the income from his Estate comes from Graceland.
 
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7A32MM20111104?irpc=932

This recent article from Reuters is another example. In the article Reuters claims that Michael Jackson's "finances hit rock bottom" because of the trial. All MJ haters and the entire media used the trial as their latest excuse for claiming that Jackson was broke and his career was in "tatters". A fair question would be, if his career and finances were ruined because of the trial in 2005, then why were they saying the exact same thing for many years before the trial?

This is because Jackson shocked them by being found not guilty on all counts. But there is no way the media/haters could let him come away from the trial looking victorious or as if he would finaly be allowed to be comfortable. Also the 2005 trial shut down the child abuse rumors that had been used to sting Michael in every article written for more than ten years.

They fell back on the most important rumor used to control his image and reputation, his finances. Therefore if he decided to take years off to focus on raising his children, the claim would be that he was "not popular anymore" and "the former King Of Pop" had no options. Whenever Jackson did decide to do something they would claim it's proof he was broke and only working because he was desperate and had to.

Also in that article from Reuters they put the debt rumor at $400 mil. In the next article it was back to $500 mil.

"Give Michael Jackson Credit For His Estate"
 
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reuters have always been anti mj in their articles 03-05 was a huge example of that
 
This is a reuters article from 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/856313/posts

Even in 2003 and many years before that the first paragraph and most important part of every article was to convince the public that Michael Jackson was broke or always in a bad situation based on financial rumors.

There is a clear and undeniable trail left by the entire world media. This case in particular reuters. For the last 15 years of his life Michael was attacked by media/haters with same two rumors. No1 convince the public that he (MJ) was far less famous and wealthy than he actually was. No2 condition the public to believe this by repeating the word "debt" over and over again, year after year to the point were it is included in every story and almost every sentence written about Michael Jackson. Meanwhile the words net worth, solvent, income, or tremendous earning potential, never mentioned.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Give-Michael-Jackson-credit-for-his-Estate/260054354029190
 
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Legacy loved your posts.

I would love to see a Bad concert on a big screen. I wish they could do this once for one of his birthdays. I would be singing and screaming with the crowd. I am glad the estate is taking their time to find a good script for the movie. Again they are showing themselves to be very careful in the way they handle Michael's estate and image.
 
so AEG earned 35 millions for michael jackson death?
michael was killed and have to pay them 35 millions for this?
very very nice AEG ^^ nice guys
 
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I'm so glad when I see new fans:) Michael is great and it is an honor to listen to his music and learn from his live!
 
mjchris said:
so AEG earned 35 millions for michael jackson death?
michael was killed and have to pay them 35 millions for this?
very very nice AEG ^^ nice guys
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they didn't earn 35 millions , they got paid for the advances.

For example they gave Michael $15 Million as an advance before the shows. They got that money back as Michael died before he could perform. So that 35 million isn't a earning , it's getting back the money that gave.
 
I don't think Michael was ever truly even close to the financial distress the media portrayed. Consider this: It has been reported that MJ's profit share take from the Sony/ATV catalog was $80 million a year. That means Michael was taking home $80 million each year for doing NOTHING. That's more than even the most popular "current" artists take home on major tours.
 
ivy said:
they didn't earn 35 millions , they got paid for the advances.

For example they gave Michael $15 Million as an advance before the shows. They got that money back as Michael died before he could perform. So that 35 million isn't a earning , it's getting back the money that gave.
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and what about this:
michael jackson created this show. rehearsed for this show. what about that?
i dont know, but how much AEG earned from "this is it" sales (cinema, dvd, blue ray)?
i mean the estate (michael jackson) earned from this. but how much did AEG earned?

what i want to say is that both michael jackson and AEG earned from "this is it" (cinema, dvd, blue ray).
but AEG got all the 35 million back they payed michael jackson. but michael jackson worked for this. he created the show, and did rehearsals. so, i dont know how much it should be, but michael should get half of this money. dont you think so?
AEG is making money of something they didnt do anything for. millions and millions...
 
In court Randy Phillips said if MJ had cancelled the tour he would have owed about $40 million for production cost. The following is from a billboard article.

Conceptually , Leiweke says the "production was all Michael's vision and that was expensive. It was budgeted to be $12 million but Michael had big dreams and big visions" Leiweke says. "By the time we were ready to go to London we were at $35 million".
Billboard.biz

As a fan pointed out $35 million is a lot of money but in Michael Jackson's world that is only about half of what he made a year from Sony/ATV alone.
 
mjchris said:
and what about this:
michael jackson created this show. rehearsed for this show. what about that?
i dont know, but how much AEG earned from "this is it" sales (cinema, dvd, blue ray)?
i mean the estate (michael jackson) earned from this. but how much did AEG earned?

what i want to say is that both michael jackson and AEG earned from "this is it" (cinema, dvd, blue ray).
but AEG got all the 35 million back they payed michael jackson. but michael jackson worked for this. he created the show, and did rehearsals. so, i dont know how much it should be, but michael should get half of this money. dont you think so?
AEG is making money of something they didnt do anything for. millions and millions...
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it's not what you and I might think or want. It's about contract. when you are being paid to do a job and you can't do it you need to pay the money back. AEG had paying Michael money , advances, rent etc for TII, it never happened, they are entitled to get it back. Furthermore 90% of the profits from TII went to MJ Estate and AEG only got 10%. So Michael is getting a lot more than half from TII.
 
Michael Jackson was living in his Bel Air mansion months before he signed any deal with AEG.
 
ivy said:
it's not what you and I might think or want. It's about contract. when you are being paid to do a job and you can't do it you need to pay the money back. AEG had paying Michael money , advances, rent etc for TII, it never happened, they are entitled to get it back. Furthermore 90% of the profits from TII went to MJ Estate and AEG only got 10%. So Michael is getting a lot more than half from TII.
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yeah, i know what u want to say. but...
if michael have to pay back the full 35 mio.... michael should get the 100% from TII. my opinion.
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if AEG gets 10% from TII, michael should get 10% back from the 35mio. maybe the better choice. and FAIR.
 
Talks and oral agreements have been done in 2008. AEG testified to it at court and Jermaine Jackson wrote it in his book.
 
ivy said:
it's not what you and I might think or want. It's about contract. when you are being paid to do a job and you can't do it you need to pay the money back. AEG had paying Michael money , advances, rent etc for TII, it never happened, they are entitled to get it back. Furthermore 90% of the profits from TII went to MJ Estate and AEG only got 10%. So Michael is getting a lot more than half from TII.
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I think the Estate-Report mentions 40 Millions of debts that was paid to AEG from the Estate. We have no list of this costs. So we can only speculate: productionscost for TII, the rent of the house... We also speculated that the Estate paid the 17 Million insurance-sum from Llodys becaue now the Estate would get this money for the unlikely case Lloyd`s have to pay it.

AEG got 60 Millions for the film-rights TII from Sony.
Sony got the income from the cinema-playing until the 200 Million-border. The icome over this border goes to 90% percent to the Estate, 10 % to AEG. The film had a income from cinema about 265 Mill. worldwide.
The income from the DVD was splitted: 1/3 AEG, 1/3 Sony, 1/3 Estate
 
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Guys did the footage of TII originally belong to AEG or was it Michael. Did it belong to AEG and AEG went into a deal with the Esate and Sony to publish it, because I notice all 3 get a cut from the action.

Thanks Annita.
 
I think i read it was aeg organising the cameras as i remember i thought it was unusual as mj tended to film his rehearsals himself.

Annita said:
AEG got 60 Millions for the film-rights TII from Sony.
Sony got the income from the cinema-playing until the 200 Million-border. The icome over this border goes to 90% percent to the Estate, 10 % to AEG. The film had a income from cinema about 265 Mill. worldwide.
The income from the DVD was splitted: 1/3 AEG, 1/3 Sony, 1/3 Estate
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Is this right? I didn't know that part about sony getting the income up until $200m - pretty good return for them, and aeg got nearly double the productions costs back with their $60m. I bet they made a bit on the tii tickets sales with buyers wanting to keep the tickets as a memento - not sure if we ever found out what percentage kept their tickets. Well i'm glad tii turned out to be the biggest grossing documentary in the world, otherwise mj and his estate wouldn't have made much revenue at all!
 
I really, really hope the estate isn't considering the biopic as a viable option to make lots of of money, releasing footage, concerts, songs that have never seen the light is a guarantee.
 
I am really looking forward to the biopic, but of course with a well-thought out script, good cast, and excellent direction and production. It is good they are waiting for a good script. I guess some projects will produce more revenue than others.
 
Petrarose said:
Guys did the footage of TII originally belong to AEG or was it Michael. Did it belong to AEG and AEG went into a deal with the Esate and Sony to publish it, because I notice all 3 get a cut from the action.

Thanks Annita.
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The footage belonged to AEG, then Sony bought the rights for publishing. So, it means the the TII belongs to Sony.
 
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