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"This Is It" continues to throw all the old rules about concert movies out the window. Domestic ticket sales for the Michael Jackson movie totaled $8.3 million on Sunday, nearly $2 million more than the $6.3 million Sony Pictures projected...
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He's huge in Japan. Michael Jackson's swan song "This Is It" made up for a so-so start domestically by doing more than twice as much business overseas. The movie sold $32.5 million over its first five days in the U.S....
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Sony Pictures desperately wanted to release the DVD of the Michael Jackson concert movie "This Is It" for the holiday shopping season, but backed down after movie theater owners balked that it was too soon following the film's theatrical premiere....
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The opening-day box office for "This Is It" is neither a "Thriller" nor "Bad." According to executives at several studios who have been tracking the returns, the new Michael Jackson documentary is likely to sell $10 million to $12 million...
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Michael Jackson fans beat it to theaters in droves last night. "This Is It" sold $2.2 million worth of tickets in late night Tuesday screenings in the U.S. and Canada, a strong number for a weeknight outside of the summer,...
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It was just plain weird that Michael Jackson wasn't at last night's world premiere of his concert film "This Is It" at L.A. Live's Nokia Theatre. "He would have loved this," said Sony Pictures movie chief Amy Pascal, whose studio...
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You know, I really wanted to ignore all the Michael Jackson-related hoopla today, but fat chance. The title "This Is It" is distracting for a concert movie built out of Michael Jackson's rehearsal footage; mostly it just makes me think of The Strokes, but that's my problem. It is, nonetheless...
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Now this is really it. Aiming to create a cinematic happening out of the theatrical release of its newly acquired Michael Jackson movie, Sony announced today that “Michael Jackson: This Is It” will arrive in theaters for a limited two-week...
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Michael Jackson will be hitting the big screen on one of the toughest dates of the year at the box office. Sony Pictures today confirmed the long-reported deal that it is joining with Sony Music Entertainment to release a movie...
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By Steven Zeitchik If they could come up with a way to measure interest in spectacle like they do box-office, the Michael Jackson funeral would of course trump any blockbuster in any theater in decades (yes, even you, Michael Bay).... Read More...
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Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is a fearless, equal-opportunity offender, but when it comes to jokes about Michael Jackson in Cohen's new film "Bruno," there apparently are limits: at the last minute, "Bruno's" filmmakers have cut out a sequence about Jackson...
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One of Michael Jackson's most valued assets was his 50% stake in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which has more than 750,000 copyrights. They include many hit Beatles songs as well as songs by Bob Dylan, John Mayer, Lady Gaga and the...