LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s This Is It pulled in US$101 million (RM344 mil) worldwide in its first five days, and distributor Sony is extending the farewell performance film beyond its planned two-week run.

The film was the No 1 Halloween thriller domestically with a US$21.3 million opening weekend, according t

 

“This Is It’. Sony Ericsson is giving away 1,000 pairs of Michael Jackson movie passes — the last look at possibly the greatest performer the world has ever known. Around 10,000 tickets were sold in Malaysia only, even before the limited two-week run started.

 

 

IN conjunction with the opening of Michael Jackson’s This Is It yesterday (the movie will be screened for the next two weeks), Malay Mail and Universal Music would like to give back to loyal fans of the king by giving away Michael Jackson’s This Is It t-shirts and his Gold Album to three lucky winners.

 

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s brother Randy has criticised the media for filming and broadcasting footage of the King of Pop’s funeral.

“As a family, we are all aware of how Michael’s life, and his death, touched so many around the world. It is why  we held a public memorial in my brother’s honour,”  Randy Jackson said in a statement posted on entertainment site TMZ.com.

“I was dismayed last night and again today at the coverage I saw on television of our ceremony for Michael.

LAS VEGAS: Michael Jackson’s body will be laid to rest on Aug 29, the day the King of Pop would have turned 51, his father said. Joe Jackson (pic), 80, said the birthday burial at Los Angeles’ Forest Lawn Cemetery would be a private event, although he could not say which family members would be present.

The singing star’s interment is to be held more than two months after his June 25 death from heart failure.

AFTER a brief hiatus, this page is back. Miss your dose of gossip? Note the rebranding of this column. Yes, what is heard, will be said.

Not too much different from what hearsay is, which, steering clear of the negative legal connotations — simply also means, gossip. And it’s back to providing you the juicy gossip that doesn’t make the news bites. Now, on to the goods.

LOS ANGELES: Attorneys handling Michael Jackson's estate say they have asked a judge to approve  an allowance for the singer's three children and his mother.

The request came yesterday from attorneys for two men who are serving as temporary executors of Jackson's estate. Paul Gordon Hoffman, an attorney representing the co-executors, said a judge will  consider the requests on Aug 3.

BOGOTA: A family in the Colombian town of Malambo told local media recently that it saw the ghost of the late pop superstar Michael Jackson while they were watching the music video of Jackson's hit Thriller.

The alleged ghost of the King of Pop first appeared as a chemical odour and then in a shadow of the singer.

"I told one of my children to turn off that video, and my son did not want to do it.

"I told him again to turn it off, because I could feel Michael Jackson's presence here with a smell of formaldehyde," Rocio Salazar told the RCN news.

NEW YORK: Michael Jackson  claimed to have a net worth of US$236 million (RM829 mil) as of  March 31, 2007, according to financial documents that shed light on the late pop star's murky finances and prodigious borrowing.

The documents also show he had little cash on hand to finance his lavish lifestyle.

THE horrifying state of pop superstar Michael Jackson in his final days was revealed by The Sun yesterday.

The paper said that leaked autopsy details showed that the singer was a virtual skeleton who had been barely eating and had only pills in his stomach at the time he died.