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Q, Charles Thomson, Paul Black, Shawn Shackelford, and Charlie Carter join host Elise Capron to discuss the recently released teaser trailer for the ‘Michael’ biopic, which will hit theaters around the world on April 24, 2026. The just-over-one-minute-long trailer dropped unexpectedly on November 6, 2025, and immediately broke records, racking up 116.2 million views globally within its first 24 hours, making it “the largest 24-hour trailer launch ever in Lionsgate‘s history and the most-viewed trailer for any music biopic or concert movie in motion picture history”, according to Deadline.
In this chat, the team shares their hot takes and comments on everything from the most thrilling moments of the teaser to complaints about factual inaccuracies, and dissect the editing quality, Jaafar Jackson’s look as the King of Pop, make guesses about what we might see in the final film based on this short, but punchy, presentation, and much more.
This episode was edited by Charlie Carter.
Participants
• Elise Capron
• Charles Thomson
• Charlie Carter
• Shawn Shackelford
• Q
• Paul Black
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• Official teaser trailer on YouTube.
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Nice chat around what might be 🙂
A couple of days after the teaser came out, Matt Belloni talked about it on his podcast “The Town”. He is THE hollywood reporter that the whole industry pays attention to.
He basically said that:
– it’s going to be THE movie of 2026 because everyone is waiting for it
– he expects it to be somewhat successful in the US, but absolutely massive in the rest of the world
– he’d read the original script that included the 1993 allegations, but hasn’t seen the rewrites
– the script of part 2 is already written
– even if greenlighting part 2 will depend on the success of part 1, he has no doubt that part 2 will be greenlit by the studio
On the 1st movie ending with the Bad Tour, it is a massive success story, it was the 2nd biggest tour of the 80s, a lot to celebrate on a high note.
If I was in charge, I’d have a post-credit scene with someone questioning the presence of Safechuck family on the tour or something, because:
1/ post-credit scenes announce more to come
2/ it would say “yes, we will cover the allegations”
Question for you, if you might discuss:
What could be the consequences of breaching the Chandler agreement? Could the estate consider this a worthy investment fornthe 2nd movie?
I haven’t actually watched the trailer by the way 😁
Thank you again for a geat conversation 😃
Alexandre (he/him)