14th November. 2009

The king of Pop music world, Michael Jackson is still live with us in every track of his music. Yes! “This Is It” Michael Jackson’s concert movie has taken over $200 million at worldwide box offices. It is one incredible HIT! in the world’s history, that too in the first two weeks of release.

Sony Pictures Entertainment said that this movie had grossed about $61 million in North America and internationally about $140 million. In Japan, it had taken up $27.2 million and in UK $14.3 million were especially strong markets. According to industry tracker boxofficemojo.com, the movie “This Is It” is in the place of 22nd biggest grossing movie worldwide of 2009,

“This Is It”, distributed by Sony Corp-owned Columbia Pictures, and was collected from footage of Jackson practicing for his new series of aforethought comeback concerts before his sudden death in the month of June.Sony paid about $60 million to the concert promoters AEG and Jackson’s estate to get the right to produce and distribute the movie.

The $200 million plus amount of collection in two weeks is almost three times more than 2008’s “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” a movie which is used by some box office watchers as a yardstick for “This Is It.”