‘Michael’ box office haul, despite grim accusations, suggests audiences separate art and artist
Ana Maria Rus
A film about Michael Jackson should be box office poison, given the accusations of pedophilia that trailed him in his last decades. Yet the film’s strong opening weekend suggests that audiences are willing to separate the art from the artist. “Michael,” the King of Pop’s glossy biopic, was expeected to make north of $70 million stateside . It did so well that estimates are now as high as nearly $100 million in the U.S., and $200 million worldwide. Critics complain the film avoids the damning
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