Michael has become the highest grossing biopic ever, finishing its tenth weekend at $977.4 million worldwide after adding $9.2 million more at the global box office. The total pushed the film past Oppenheimer and put the title role performance by Jaafar Jackson at the center of a record-setting run that is still moving upward.
That is why the movie is drawing fresh attention now: it has gone from a strong release to a benchmark picture in just ten weekends, and the next milestone is close enough to matter. Michael's $977.4 million total breaks down to $370.2 million domestically and $607.2 million from foreign markets, while Universal tabulated $559.7 million of that foreign business from its own markets. The gap reflects the difference between the full overseas total and the share tracked in Universal's markets, not a contradiction in the count.
Michael also overtook Bohemian Rhapsody, which finished with $911 million worldwide, so it is now the top-grossing musical biopic as well. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the film has done this with Jafar Jackson in the title role and with a 46-day theatrical window to PVOD, far shorter than Oppenheimer's 123-day theatrical window to PVOD/DVD and its later run on Peacock in the U.S. Oppenheimer still reached $975.8 million and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Christopher Nolan, helped by an Oscar-season surge and a final Japan boost on March 29, 2024. Michael has reached the bigger number anyway.
The question now is not whether Michael has made history. It has. The only real question left is whether the film can keep climbing far enough to cross $1 billion before the theatrical run ends, which would make it only the second film to do so in 2026.
