Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, with Jaafar Jackson as his uncle Michael Jackson, was shown to press and guests at a UK multimedia screening in Greenwich before its British release.
Michael, Antoine Fuqua’s film of Michael Jackson’s life, was shown at a UK multimedia screening at Cineworld at The O2 in Greenwich on Thursday 16 April 2026.
Fuqua was born in Pittsburgh in 1965 and began by directing music videos. His first feature, The Replacement Killers, came in 1998, and Training Day made his name.
Olympus Has Fallen, Southpaw and the Equalizer trilogy followed. He also won a Sports Emmy for Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers.
Jaafar Jackson, the son of Jermaine Jackson, plays his uncle in his first film role. Born in Los Angeles in 1996, he released his debut single, “Got Me Singing”, in 2019 and was cast after a two-year search.
The story runs from the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad World Tour of the late 1980s. Nia Long, Colman Domingo, Miles Teller and Mike Myers complete the cast.
The evening was billed as a multimedia screening, not a red-carpet premiere, and no report of the night names a cast member in the room. Universal Pictures opened the film in Britain on 22 April, and it became the first biographical film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.