{"id":151762,"date":"2025-11-06T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=151762"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:49:55","slug":"michael-jackson-biopic-check-out-the-trailer-and-premiere-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/michael-jackson-biopic-check-out-the-trailer-and-premiere-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson biopic: check out the trailer and premiere date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours ago the official <strong>trailer<\/strong> and premiere date for the long-awaited <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> biopic were finally shared with the world, generating even more enthusiasm around the movie about the life of the King of Pop.<\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate recently released the trailer for &#8216;<strong>Michael<\/strong>&#8216;, which starts with the singer in the studio alongside Quincy Jones (Kendrick Sampson), who says: <em><strong>&#8220;I know you\u2019ve been waiting a long time for this. The tracks are made, the songs are ready. Let\u2019s take it from the top&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser continues showing clips of Michael Jackson&#8217;s childhood, performances, and music videos while starting to play his 1982 hit <strong>&#8216;Wanna be Startin Somethin&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=723RZxnDWKE\" title=\"Michael (2026) Official Teaser - Jaafar Jackson\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/723RZxnDWKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The movie directed by Antoine Fuqua stars the singer nephew <strong>Jaafar Jackson<\/strong> as Michael with the participation of actors like <strong>Miles Teller<\/strong> as Jackson\u2019s attorney and adviser John Branca, <strong>Colman Domingo<\/strong> as his father Joe Jackson, <strong>Nia Long<\/strong> as his mother Katherine Jackson, <strong>Jessica Sula<\/strong> as his sister LaToya Jackson, and <strong>Larenz Tate<\/strong> as Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is set to be released in theaters on <strong>April 24, 2026<\/strong>. Previous reports revealed that the production was split into two parts; though from the trailer, it appears to be just one film, the details of the second part remain unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours ago the official trailer and premiere date for the long-awaited Michael Jackson biopic were finally shared with the world, generating even more enthusiasm around the movie about the life of the King of Pop. Lionsgate recently released the trailer for &#8216;Michael&#8216;, which starts with the singer in the studio alongside Quincy Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":151786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-news","9":"category-pop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}