Michael Jackson Biopic Faces Backlash

0:00It's April 21st. Welcome to entertainment and celebrity news today, powered by AI and packed with headlines. The new Michael Jackson biopic called Michael is catching major heat from critics right out the gate. This big budget flick dies into his Jackson five days in solo rise, wrapping up around the mid-1980s with his bad tour. But folks say it dodges the tough stuff, like the child abuse claims that haunted his later years. Used by family and close associates, the movie stays safe, skipping the 1988 cutoff to avoid his legal battles and quirks. Jackson faced accusations from multiple minors, got acquitted in a 2005 trial, but civil suits linger even after his death at age 50. From a drug overdose in 2009, critics are ripping it apart, calling it bland, shallow, and more like daytime TV than a real portrait. They point out a whitewash's history, ignoring the controversies that defined his pop culture legacy. Even Paris Jackson, his daughter, fired back on social media, slamming it as fantasy full

1:02of lies and sugarcoating. She hates the dishonesty, especially since the family pushed the project. Still, box office buzz predicts it could rake in up to a billion dollars, turning backlash into a payday for the estate. Whether audiences buy the sanitized version or not, this one's shaking of Hollywood's take on the king of pop.