Michael Jackson “This Is It” movie delivered a great,up close look at MJ. Columbia Pictures released the new Michael Jackson documentary/film earlier this week. Along with Michael Jackson, it starred: Kenny Ortega, Travis Payne, Michael Bearden, Dorian Holley, Judith Hill, Orianthi, Tommy Organ, and, Bashiri Johnson.
The film showed up close, behind the scenes, footage, that was taken from over 100 hours of rehearsal footage. The rehearsal footage was from between March and June of this year. It showed interviews with the background dancers that were chosen to perform with Michael,and showed footage of their whole audition process.
It showed Michael performing some of his greatest hits like: Billy Jean,Thriller,Human Nature, Beat It,Smooth Criminal, and The Way You Make Me feel, to name a few.
ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” is set to pay a tribute to the “King Of Pop,” Michael Jackson no next week’s episode, according to Access Hollywood.They report that they will do a ballroom dance tribute which will consist of all the professional dancers.
They told his sister, Latoya Jackson,and she thought it was wonderful. She stated, “Here? You’re kidding! Oh that’s gonna be wonderful,” La Toya told Access. “I’m so excited. I can’t wait to see that. I’m really looking forward to that. That’s gonna be fabulous.”
Michael Jackson’s new song “This Is It” (listen below) has been released this morning. It is the first single from Michael Jackson’s latest album,and it will accompany the upcoming Sony Picture’s Michael Jackson “This Is It” film, coming out in two weeks. “This Is It” will be the only new song on the album.
“This Is It” will be playing over the closing credits of the “This Is It” documentary/film, which will show footage drawn from over 100 hours of Michael rehearsing for his “would be” “This Is It” concert tour.
The footage was shot between April and June of this year when Michael worked with director and choreographer Kenny Ortega for the stage show. Ortega also directed the “This Is It” film. The Jackson brothers sing backup on the “This Is It” song.
Sony Pictures has announced that the “Michael Jackson : This Is It” movie tickets are now on sale, as of yesterday. The film is packed with over 100 hours of rehearsal footage when he was rehearsing at the Staples Center to get ready for his “This Is It” tour that was going to occur this past July,but unfortunately did not happen due to his untimely death.
The film will show his months of rehearsing from April to June of this year. It captures Michael singing,dancing,creating and perfecting his final show. It shows footage of him performing many of his best songs from the past and present.
The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The movie’s release date is October 28,and will only play for two weeks. I’m not sure why,but that’s what they are saying.
Madonna, who’s a veteran of the MTV Video Music Awards, showed up for the 2009 version to pay tribute to the late :King of Pop,” Michael Jackson. She certainly did not disappoint,as she gave a very heartfelt speech,wearing a dark black zippered jacket and skirt.
In her speech (full video below), she commented on her and Michael’s dinner date that they had years ago,and stated how he was looking for friend rather than a romance. She talked about how her her kids imitate him,now,and how she was sadden by the fact that she lost touch with him over the years.
She stated how Michael never really had a childhood. She said he was one of the greatest talents the world has ever known. She said he felt his pain when the negative stories came out about him.
Janet Jackson gave a huge, incredible live performance (video below) at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards tonight to pay tribute to her “King Of Pop” brother, Michael Jackson who unfortunately passed away in June.
The performance started off with other dancers performing to Micheal Jackson’s “Thriller,” “Beat It,” “Smooth Criminal,” “Bad,” and then Janet came out to perform the last song entitled, “Scream,” which was a duet that her and Michael did a long time ago.
MTV debuted Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” movie trailer (below) tonight at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The film is a compilation of rehearsal footage that was recorded at the Staples Center where he was rehearsing for a concert tour over in London at the O2 arena.It was going to take pace this past July.
Unfortunately,due to his untimely death,the event never took place. The trailer shows amazing footage of his still sharp dancing skills,along with commentary from Michael and others,and a ton of behind the scenes footage.
According to Access Hollywood, Michal Jackson’s “This Is It” movie trailer is set to premiere at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday night. MTV has partnered with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment to exclusively premiere the official trailer for the film.
According to Access Hollywood, Sony has reportedly paid AEG Entertainment about $50 million dollars for the rights to the exclusive last Michael Jackson rehearsal footage.
Sony is planning to make a feature film from the “This Is It” tour rehearsal videos. Sony reportedly won the footage in a bidding war,and it consists of about 80 hours of footage.
US today recently released unseen footage of the January 27,1984 incident where Michael Jackson burned his scalp while filming a Pepsi commercial. The video (below) shows when Michael did his first take,and the pyrotechnics went off as planned.By going off after he descended from the stairs. He then started singing,dancing,and everything was ok at that point.
Then the video cuts to the sixth take of the commercial,and this is where things go horribly wrong. The explosion goes off to early,and his hair catches on fire. He doesn’t realize it at first,and continues to decend down the stairs,and keeps dances.
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