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0:00It's April 10th. Welcome to Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI and packed with headlines. Tonight in Berlin, Michael Jackson's nephew, Jafar Jackson, hits the red carpet for the world premiere of the biopic Michael, joined by his dad. Germain. This 130-minute film star is Jafar as the King of Pop and wraps up right at the thriller release during his peak solo run. With a massive $150 million budget, it drops in Los Angeles on April 20th and goes global April 22nd. The movie faced huge production drama last year, when producers had to scrap and reshoot at least a third of it. They initially showed the 1993 abuse claims from Jordy Chandler's family as untrue, but lawyers caught an ironclad non-disclosure, agreement from the estate that still applied after Jackson's death. That led to millions in reshoots estimates hit $50 million, though producers say $15 million plus a full rewrite, Neverland Scenes. Dumped and a one-year delay.

1:02Fans worldwide are hyped for this cultural moment, packing events with exhibits and cast talks, banking on Jackson's die-hard support to crush the box, office. But dark clouds loom from renewed predator allegations, especially a fresh lawsuit by the Cassio family claiming Jackson abused four of their five. Kids complete with sick photos of him with two boys that dropped this week. Sarah Shaxon, his 28-year-old daughter, is sitting out Berlin and the LA premiere, despite living there. She shifted harder race tattoos of her dad, gotten tight with the Cassio mom, and publicly called parts of the film inaccurate lies that panned her to. Fantasy fans. On top of that, she's suing the estate for overcharging after pocketing $65 million, demanding accountability from executors after. 16 years. Family riffs run deep now, with Paris clashing against brothers Prince and Beeji on estate deals. Siblings living separate lives amid the legal. Firestorm. As the biopic rolls out, these shadows threaten to steal the spotlight from Jackson's musical

2:05triumphs.