{"id":1507665,"date":"2026-05-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=d1f011ec1338a63d3b53161f6b611e3f"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:04:02","slug":"michael-moonwalks-back-to-1-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1507665","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Michael&#8217; moonwalks back to #1 at the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/ca9d80ae73b8271e539bfde26b2953d1.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in the film 'Michael.' (Lionsgate)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><em>Michael<\/em> reclaimed the top spot at the box office this weekend, dethroning previous two-week champ <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2.<\/em><\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3zOLzsbOleM\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jackson biopic<\/a> brought in $26.1 million in its fourth weekend of release. That brings its total domestic gross to $283 million.<\/p><p><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em>, starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, fell to the #2 spot with an $18 million haul, while the weekend\u2019s new horror release, <em>Obsession<\/em>, debuted at #3 with $16.1 million.<\/p><p><em>Mortal Kombat II<\/em> and <em>The Sheep Detectives<\/em> round out the top&nbsp;five with $13.4 million and $9.3 million, respectively.<\/p><p>Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/weekend\/2026W20\/?ref_=bo_hm_rw\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top 10 films<\/a> at the box office this week:<\/p><p>1. <em>Michael<\/em> -- $26.1 million<br \/>2. <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> -- $18 million<br \/>3. <em>Obsession<\/em> -- $16.1 million<br \/>4. <em>Mortal Kombat II<\/em> -- $13.4 million<br \/>5. <em>The Sheep Detectives<\/em> -- $9.3 million<br \/>6. <em>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em> -- $4.5 million<br \/>7. <em>Project Hail Mary<\/em> -- $3.9 million<br \/>8. <em>Top Gun\/Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> (2026 rerelease) -- $3.1 million<br \/>9. <em>In the Grey<\/em> -- $3 million<br \/>10. <em>Is God Is<\/em> -- $2.2 million<\/p><div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3zOLzsbOleM?si=gWvjqnsEbzoezmL3\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in the film &#8216;Michael.&#8217; (Lionsgate)Michael reclaimed the top spot at the box office this weekend, dethroning previous two-week champ The Devil Wears Prada 2.The Michael Jackson biopic brought in $26.1 million in its fou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":1507678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-05-17\/E_JaafarJackson_4626%20%281%29.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 01:51:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-05-17\/E_JaafarJackson_4626%20%281%29.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507681,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507665\/revisions\/1507681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}