‘This is it’ tops US album chart

Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Entertainment

Michael Jackson’s most recent documentary movie This Is It was released about a week back and with a tagline, ‘like you have never seen him before’ threw fans to a frenzy and was raved by critics across the globe.

Kenny Ortega made a good attempt of compiling interviews, rehearsals as well as backstage footage of the King of Pop Michael Jackson when he prepared for London series. No wonder, Michael Jackson’s fans have been paying their tributes watching it and making it a blockbuster.

And Billboard.com reports This Is It has already made to the top spot of the US album chart. While ‘Full Circle’ takes number 2 position, Fearless goes to the third spot. The next 7 places are occupied by:
Soulbook
Night Castle
If on a Winter’s Night
Crazy Love
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Southern Voice
The Blueprint 3

Watch ‘This Is It’ Trailer here:

‘This is it’ grosses USD2.2 million

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Turbo in Entertainment

Michael Jackson’s documentary, ‘This Is It’ grossed about $2.2 million in the advance screening according to industry sources. The documentary, ‘This Is It’ opened around the world on wednesday and in North America alone it earned a whopping $2.2 millions.

The documentary about Michael Jackson just a few weeks before he passed away rehearsing for his performance at London concerts (to have been started in July). Jackson died on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50. The circumstances that led to the pop icon’s death are still being investigated.

“This Is It” opened for a two-week premiere and according to the documentary director Kenny Ortega say that the documentary movie may run for longer should the demand for it is good.

Michael Jackson did not have cash to spend?

Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by Turbo in Entertainment

Michael Jackson who was a millionaire and more on paper had just $668,215 as cash in bank when he died, that’s just 0.05% of his networth which was estimated to be at $1,360,839,979. Well, a person that Jackson is, he could simply blow that cold cash off on a trip to any of his favorite antique stores.

Breakdown of Jackson’s assets:
Realty property: $73,475,000 (His Neverland value at $66,875,000 and his Encino Home’s value at $6,600,000)
MJ Publishing Trust: $85,000,000
Media Archival materials: $20,000,000
Automobiles, antiques, collectibles and other personal property: $20,000,000
Restricted cash: $10,696,764
Professional equipment: $1,000,000
Combined assets: $1,360,839,979

Jackson was a lot rich on paper but he was actually cash broke and was not having much cash to spend. It could be reason why he was not paying his pharmacy bills.

Michael Jackson 1984 Pepsi fire mishap

Posted on 16. Jul, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz

An unreleased video of MJ was released online yesterday. But what’s unusual is that Michael Jackson who was performing for a Pepsi commercial in 1984 had his hair burnt during the rehearsal.

The mishap happened 25 years back on stage and you could see Jackson’s scalp getting burnt. This has been blamed as the root cause for the king of Pop to slowly become an addict to the prescription pain meds.

As of now, there is no clue as to how the video was obtained, but the video footage clearly shows the pyrotechnics blasting close to Michael Jackson and then flames catching it on to his hair. The footage shows that MJ continues with his dance; dancing down the stairs and unrealized that his hair caught fire, for about 8 seconds, and then the stage helpers rushed to MJ and doused the fire off his scalp. The footage then shows baldy mark on Michael Jackson’s head. He was seen rubbing his head with his gloved hands as he is taken off the stage.

Michael Jackson's Suit of Lights glove for sale

Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz

No wonder Michael Jackson was referred to as “the gloved one.” He wore gloves for every performance. And, if you recall the Suit of Lights famous lighting gloves, you can slip your hand into one of it, just in case you are ready to shell out 6-figured amount for that.

Surprising, yet value of Michael Jackson seems to have increased very high following his sudden demise. Now, his electric-white gloves is put up for auction which could sell in no less than six figures, according to an auctioneer in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

One Joseph Maddalena the owner of Profiles in History auction house says that the Suit of Lights white glove (not pair just one) worn by the star singer on his 1984 Victory Tour is up for sale, and that people are offering 6-figure bids for it.

The glove will come will come along with authenticity letter from the Shell.

Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest last Thursday and over his 50 years, he had used several gloves as he performed, but the white glove being sold by Profiles in History is one that was made for Michael Jackson’s “Suit of Lights” and he wore it on stage and performed. Jackson retained one and gave the other to Shell who designed the glove, which is embellished with bugle beads, crystal rhinestones of Austrain make and has 50 small lights that are fitted and powered by a small battery that is fit in the cuff of the glove.

People are making million by selling Jackson’s memorabilia and his worth rose many times after his death.

King of Pop Michael Jackson leaves the world of music mourning

Posted on 25. Jun, 2009 by Turbo in Entertainment

King of pop music Michael Jackson died of a sudden massive heart attack. Michael Jackson collapsed to death after taking a powerful pain Demerol injection.

Jacko, as he is popular among fan circles, is aged 50, and has been an addict to pain killer Demerol which is quite similar in its action to morphine. His heart attack must have been a trigger to the Demerol overdose he had taken, say medical authorities.

Paramedics were summoned, who actually rushed to his Los Angeles home; found that he was missing pulse. All frantic attempts done by UCLA medical teams to revive Jackson’s pulse failed and he left the world of music in grief.

It is known that the ‘The Thriller’ celebrity has been battling skin cancer, and he is due to resume a series of some comeback concerts in UK and London during July; about 50 farewell concerts. There are reports that most of the tickets were sold.

Millions of Jackson’s fans around the world are still in a state of disbelief and shock, and many others who come to reality terms are mourning death of the pop legend.

Jackson enjoyed an illustrious music career that spanned for over 3 decades; and he earned not only fortune and millions of fans but also haters in the same ranks.

The otherwise London concerts will have marked Michael Jackson’s live performance there, after more than two years.

It was at the World Music Awards during November 2006 that he performed in London and he did few lines from ‘We Are The World’. His History tour was somewhere 12 years back, and during that time he toured over 58 cities and participated in 82 shows.

Ever since 2005 acquittal on charges of child molestation, he spent time living outside US. Jackson is survived by his 3 children, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson, aka Blanket.