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  "path": "/2026/film/box-office/why-michael-beat-box-office-expectations-bad-reviews-1236730917/",
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  "textContent": "Now that’s a box office thriller. “Michael,” an origin story about Michael Jackson, electrified the box office with $97 million domestically and $217 million globally in its first weekend of release. The PG-13 film wildly exceeded expectations to secure the biggest opening of all time for any musical biopic, easily supplanting the record set long […]",
  "title": "‘Michael’ Electrifies the Box Office: 5 Reasons Bad Reviews Couldn’t Derail the Michael Jackson Biopic"
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