Rate:   (No Ratings Yet) | Permalink |
This Is It Premieres
This Is It was a planned series of 50 concerts by Michael Jackson to be held at The O2 arena in London. They were scheduled to begin in July 2009 and continue through March 2010. Less than three weeks before the first show was due to begin and with all concerts being sold out, Jackson died after suffering cardiac arrest.
Following Jackson’s death, AEG stated that they had over “100 hours of footage of preparations and rehearsals for the shows”.
On August 10, 2009, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff approved a deal between film distributer Columbia Pictures and AEG Live for the former company to purchase and distribute rehersal footage of Jackson for a film entitled Michael Jackson’s This Is It.
The Guardian.uk conducted a poll on their website asking users “What do you think of Michael Jackson’s posthumous film Is This It?”, 50% agreed with one of the two options: “I agree with the fans who are boycotting it – it’s shameless profiteering”.
Based on 2,170 user ratings (votes), IMDb.com gave the film a rating of 7.4 on a scale of 1 (the lowest) to 10 (the best).
In the film’s conducted ratings, it showed that the film garnered positive ratings more by, females than by males (8.8 compared to 7.2); results showed that the film was more liked by non-US users than by US users (7.7 compared to 6.5)
Sony stated that they’d hoped to have had released the film on DVD/Blu-ray by Christmas – to capitalize the holiday shopping season, but overall choose to reschedule the release day.
Sony stated that the DVD is expected to come out in late January or early February of 2010.
Loading ...
