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Sony Pictures To Purchase Jackson Footage For Film
Variety.com reports the following:
Sony Pictures Entertainment is closing a deal to make a feature film on Michael Jackson from the 80 hours of rehearsal footage filmed for the concerts Jackson was preparing to perform in London when he passed away.
The studio is expected to pay north of $50 million for worldwide rights to AEG Entertainment, which owns the footage and showed it to studios last week. The film will include several videos that were shot and meant to be interstitial programming shown during the concerts. According to sources, there are at least three videos and one of them is an alternative version of Jackson’s most famous video, “Thriller.”
The interstitial footage was meant to play in 3-D during the “This is It” tour of 50 dates that Jackson was to play in London, but it is unclear whether or not the feature film will display it that way.
“High School Musical” director Kenny Ortega, who shot the rehearsal footage, is expected to become the director of the film and sources said he’s already beginning to put together the footage so that Sony can release the film before year’s end.
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