Box office reports have been anticipating this and tracking the rising gross, and now it’s finally happened.
Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua and Lionsgate are celebrating the major achievement that their musical biopic, Michael, has made in history as becoming the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time, dethroning 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody by director Bryan Singer. The film, written by Joe Logan, stars Michael Jackson’s own nephew Jaafar Jackson in the titular role of the King of Pop.
The initial budget was $150 million; however, reshoots due to legal issues pushed the final costs up to $155–200 million. As of now, Michael has grossed a box office total of $911.9 million worldwide, $362.8 million domestically and $569.5 million internationally, making it the most successful musical biopic ever made. This beats the Freddie Mercury-based biopic, which previously held the title with its global gross of $911 million, $216.7 million domestically and $694.1 million internationally. Before that, F. Gary Gray’s hip-hop musical biopic, Straight Outta Compton, held the title with a worldwide gross of $201.6 million.
Fuqua’s film holds many other box office milestones, such as standing as Lionsgate’s highest-grossing release worldwide, as well as the highest-grossing biopic domestically and seeing the biggest global opening weekend for a musical biopic. Michael also currently stands as the second-highest-grossing biopic of all time, coming in behind Christopher Nolan’s biographical thriller, Oppenheimer, which grossed $975 million worldwide.
Michael currently stands as the second-highest-grossing release of 2026, $68 million behind the highest-grossing film, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which holds $1 billion ($429 million domestically and $573 million internationally).
In other box office news, Curry Barker’s supernatural horror Obsession, starring Michael Johnston as a man who wishes on a magical toy for his life-long crush, played by Inde Navarrette, to return his feelings with terrifying results, has also made box office history.
From a $188.4 million gross domestically, Barker’s Obsession has earned a place in the top ten highest-grossing horror films of all time at the US domestic box office. The film ranks in ninth place, behind Jordan Peele’s Us from 2019 ($175.1 million) and Peele’s Get Out from 2017 ($175.8 million). Combined with an international gross of $98.1 million, Barker’s film currently sits at a worldwide box office gross of $286.5 million, the eighth highest-grossing release of 2026.
The official list of the highest-grossing horror films at the US domestic box office reads as:
- IT by Andy Muschietti (2017) with $328.8 million
- The Sixth Sense by M.Night Shyamalan (1999) with $293.5 million
- Jaws by Steven Spielberg (1975) with $273.6 million
- The Exorcist by William Friedkin (1973) with $231 million
- Sinners by Ryan Coogler (2025) with $214.4 million
- IT: Chapter Two by Andy Muschietti (2019) with $211.6 million
- A Quiet Place by John Krasinski (2018) with $188 million
- Get Out by Jordan Peele (2017) with $175.8 million
- Obsession by Curry Barker (2026) with $175.6 million
- Us by Jordan Peele (2019) with $175.1 million
Additionally, both Scary Movie (73.3%) and Masters of the Universe (70.6%) saw huge drops worthy of a place in the Top 200 worst wide drops ever, with the latter having only grossed $86million worldwide so far despite hugely positive audience reactions and strong reviews.
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