For a brief time this morning, a 90-second segment of a previously unreleased Michael Jackson single, “Another Day” was leaked onto the Internet and available online at YouTube.  The cut was suggested to be a remake of a Lenny Kravitz song, featuring the dreadlocked singer’s participation along with Jackson, though Kravitz’ voice did not appear [...]

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A Michael Jackson tribute concert which was scrapped in Vienna and moved to London after top acts dropped out has been canceled after the event’s organizer closed down, the company’s liquidator said on Friday. Organizers, led by Michael’s brother Jermaine Jackson, canceled the Vienna concert in September after struggling to get stars to perform at [...]

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It appears the late superstar is going back to Disneyland. The theme park is planning to revive his 1986 3D film, Captain EO, which was produced by George Lucas and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The cast includes Anjelica Huston and the late comic Dick Shawn, who died on-stage during his act less than a [...]

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The Jackson family tried "a few times" to stage an intervention and put an end to Michael Jackson’s drug dependency, the late superstar’s sister Janet has confirmed. The Rhythm Nation hitmaker was rumored to have led a family initiative to help her troubled brother in 2007 and again earlier this year, months before the King [...]

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Movie executives at Sony Pictures have scrapped plans to release Michael Jackson’s This Is It film on DVD before Christmas after cinema bosses urged them to delay the release. Theatre chain heads insisted a speedy DVD turnaround for the holiday season would keep fans away from cinemas and hamper ticket sales, prompting movie bosses to [...]

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Michael Jackson concert movie "This Is It" saw opening weekend ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada rise by 9 percent from initial estimates to a total $23.2 million, according to final studio figures on Monday. The movie has made another $69.5 million internationally since its Wednesday opening, up from an original box office estimate [...]

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