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"Michael" Biopic Review · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I went to six point seven Light FM. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: It's Covey Christine, producer Kristen and our dear friend in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: Harry Medvid from the Cinema Foundation, checking in with us
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  Speaker 1: bright and early to tell us what's happening in the
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  Speaker 1: theaters this weekend. Good morning, Harry, Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you guys?
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  Speaker 1: We're doing well. Thanks, nice to talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: Have you had coffee yet?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah? All right, Okay, it's five o' eight. It's
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  Speaker 2: five oh five by eight. There you go, five o eight.
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  Speaker 2: All wrong. I know you're three minutes. You're three minutes behind.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, but.
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  Speaker 1: You're ahead of us because you have seen the Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jackson biopic.
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  Speaker 2: Right, this is true.
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  Speaker 4: Look, it's a great time for moviegoers right now. We
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  Speaker 4: just came out of Cinema Con last week, and there's
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  Speaker 4: so many original films, non franchise films. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 4: already had three movies this year, whether it's Hoppers or
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  Speaker 4: Project Hail Mary, or even the drama with Robert Pattinson
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  Speaker 4: and Zendia that are all doing incredibly well at movie theaters.
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  Speaker 4: And now Michael was just opened last night. Night is
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  Speaker 4: playing throughout the weekend. The Michael Jackson story. It's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be about one hundred to twenty one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 4: five million dollar opening, or just last night alone have
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  Speaker 4: made twelve point five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane wow, okay, and.
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  Speaker 4: The critics are dumping on it. It opened at like
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Now it's up to
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  Speaker 4: forty percent. But if you look at the audience score,
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  Speaker 4: the audiences love Michael. This ninety six percent positive. And
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  Speaker 4: the audience I saw it with last night absolutely loved
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  Speaker 4: the film. It's what makes the movie. It is pretty
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  Speaker 4: much just a concert film with his greatest hits. But
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  Speaker 4: Jaafar Jackson, his nephew, is spot on with all the moves.
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  Speaker 4: He looks and sounds like Michael Jackson. You really figure
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  Speaker 4: like Michael Jackson has come back to life. And it's
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  Speaker 4: also what makes the movie work for me, at least
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  Speaker 4: sets his early years is from when he was a
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  Speaker 4: kid with Jackson five about his domineering father played by
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  Speaker 4: Coleman Domingo, who's so good in the film. Is absolutely
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  Speaker 4: terrifying because Coleman Domingo is like the nicest guy in
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  Speaker 4: the whole world, and he's but he's so good at
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  Speaker 4: playing Joe Jackson, and I just thought the movie kind
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  Speaker 4: of worked. I am, I am along with that audience.
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  Speaker 4: I loved Michael. I gotta be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: We're obviously yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, a very complicated figure. Do they
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  Speaker 2: deal with his very complicated life? Not really. They show
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  Speaker 2: him with a chimpanzee.
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  Speaker 4: They show he loved collecting the snakes and a giraffe
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  Speaker 4: and all that stuff, But that's about as far as
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  Speaker 4: they go with his unusual They does.
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  Speaker 3: The movie go all the way to his passing or
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  Speaker 3: does it stop at a certain point.
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  Speaker 4: No, the movie is one big flashback during his Bad tour.
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  Speaker 4: So it starts with bad and it ends with bad. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so it's it's it's look, it's gonna be a two parter,
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  Speaker 4: there's no question about it. They have not announced yet
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  Speaker 4: that they're starting the sequel. They kind of wanted to
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  Speaker 4: wait till this weekend and see how.
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  Speaker 2: The box office goes for Lionsgate.
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  Speaker 4: But it's gonna be like Lionsgate's biggest hit since The
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  Speaker 4: Hunger Games.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's huge. It's it's gonna be very very big.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I highly recommend you get tickets in advance. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: all definitely. Part two will deal with a much more difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Part of his life.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds great.
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  Speaker 2: I would recommend it. No, I look, I enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just fun.
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  Speaker 4: It brought me back to you know, my wife absolutely
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  Speaker 4: loved Michael Jackson when she was a kid, and we
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  Speaker 4: just had the greatest time.
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  Speaker 3: What else is happening in the theaters? I saw a
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  Speaker 3: movie called Mother Mary. I know nothing about that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, Look, there's a lot of new films like that
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  Speaker 4: that are just coming out, that are small independent films.
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  Speaker 4: So the reason I'm excited is that CinemaCon last week
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  Speaker 4: we had so many films like that, like well, first
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  Speaker 4: of all, a small little independent called The Odyssey by
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  Speaker 4: Christopher Nolan. I'm joking, not an independent film, but The
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  Speaker 4: Odyssey looks like it's going to be tremendous. They showed
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  Speaker 4: us a Trojan Horse sequence with Matt Damon and Anne
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  Speaker 4: Hathaway last week, and Christopher Nolan, of course, one of
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  Speaker 4: the greatest filmmakers of all time.
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  Speaker 2: We won the Oscar for Oppenheimer.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be exciting, And we also announced the
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  Speaker 4: Filmmaker Leadership Council there where filmmakers like his wife and
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  Speaker 4: producer Emma Thomas and Jerry Bruckheim or joining us at
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  Speaker 4: Cinema United to help support movie theaters, to find ways
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  Speaker 4: that filmmakers can work together with exhibitors that people run
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  Speaker 4: the movie theaters, to make for a better movie going experience,
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  Speaker 4: to keep the long windows when the films are in
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  Speaker 4: the theater so they don't come on too streaming too quickly,
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  Speaker 4: because a lot of times people say, well, I'll just.
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  Speaker 2: Wait till oh, yeah, it comes at home, right, But.
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  Speaker 4: If a film like Michael is not going to be
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  Speaker 4: at home for you know, ninety days, people are gonna
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  Speaker 4: watch in the theater because they want that experience of
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  Speaker 4: seeing the film with the audience.
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  Speaker 2: So it is mean why it was so exciting.
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  Speaker 1: It is great to see these big movies in movie
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  Speaker 1: theaters where they're meant to be. So that's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you the one film that was the
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  Speaker 4: biggest surprise at Cinema Con that so great is called
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  Speaker 4: The Other Mommy with Jessica Chastain. It's a horror movie,
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  Speaker 4: which is everyone kind of sometimes feels like you have
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  Speaker 4: two mommies yours, like the nice, loving mommy.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's the other one who's just had it
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  Speaker 2: yeah with you.
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  Speaker 4: So this in this film, there's a not demonic other mommy,
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  Speaker 4: both played by Jessica Chastain, and she's.
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  Speaker 2: Terrific, always so good. Yeah, well, Harry, I was the title.
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  Speaker 2: Other Mommy is perfect.
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  Speaker 3: I always feel like you're right about things, and because
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  Speaker 3: of that, I'm gonna go see Michael the biopic. It
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  Speaker 3: sounds interesting. Even though the other qutics, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: are are kind of pooping on it.
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  Speaker 4: I think they'll be surprised. I think they really are.
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  Speaker 4: But you'll enjoy it. It's a good time with the movies.
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  Speaker 1: She sound like Triumphant insalt Dog. We don't care if
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  Speaker 1: peopel are loving the movie. It's got to be good.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling.
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  Speaker 4: You, if the audience is right this time, look, they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna laugh all the way to the It's they're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna laugh all the way to the top of the
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  Speaker 2: box office. Let me put it that way.
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  Speaker 3: Good, very well, Harry Medvet everybody you know what you love.
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  Speaker 1: Them, the foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Harry, Thank you guys. Have a great weekend
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  Speaker 2: of the movies. Thank you,