• The Quick Turnaround: Biopic Michael hits premium home digital screens on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
• The At-Home Cost: Premium Video on Demand (PVOD) streaming access locks in at $24.99 via Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and Fandango at Home.
• The $1B Milestone Race: The film has grossed $870 million globally. Lionsgate is relying heavily on an upcoming theatrical launch in Japan to cross the billion-dollar mark.
• The Physical Media Drop: Premium 4K UHD and Blu-ray Steelbooks arrive July 14, packed with extensive choreography diaries and transformation features.

Michael officially has a PVOD streaming date.

Confirmed by multiple outlets such as Forbes, the record-breaking film is set to arrive on premium video-on-demand platforms on June 9 after a highly successful first several weeks in theaters. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring the superstar’s real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson, the film instantly completely dominated pop culture when it debuted on April 24, and has amassed plenty of records along the way.

Here’s what you need to know.

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Lionsgate’s High-Risk Home Entertainment Strategy

The strategy behind the 46-day window is, indeed a bold play by Lionsgate. While the digital release gives the studio a highly profitable wave of $24.99 premium home purchases, the movie is sitting just $130 million away from hitting the unshakeable $1 billion mark, and all signs point to it hitting that mark once the film opens in Japan later this month.

Special Features and Physical Media

For the hardcore physical media collectors, the digital drop is merely the opening act. Lionsgate will follow up the streaming debut with a premium physical rollout on July 14 (according to the Blu Ray website), introducing an array of Collector’s Edition 4K UHD Steelbooks at retail giants like Walmart and Amazon. According to the retailers, the steelbook is set to feature a 50-page exclusive photo book alongside highly anticipated makeup and choreography diaries, proving the true value of physical media in 2026.

The Special Features

• Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough: The Making of MICHAEL: A deep look tracing the exact filmmaking pipeline required to scale the project from initial studio concepts to a global box office asset.
• Home Is Where His Heart Is: Behind the Gates of Hayvenhurst: Lead actor Jaafar Jackson provides an exclusive walkthrough of the legendary family compound.
• In the Mirror: Becoming Michael & Joe Time-Lapses: Meticulous, frame-by-frame production diaries detailing the complex prosthetic and cosmetic engineering used to reshape the Jackson and Colman Domingo into Michael and Joe Jackson.
• First Look: Early, raw production logs charting Jaafar Jackson’s foundational rehearsals.
• Becoming Michael: Follows the exhausting choreography schedule as Jaafar systematically breaks down and replicates Michael’s most complex live performance variables.
• Before the Big Screen: A look behind the studio line detailing how the screenwriters and filmmakers navigated the intricate task of pacing the artist’s historical timeline.
• On the Set of MICHAEL: Documents the massive production scale and background detail required to build and recreate some of Jackson’s biggest moments.

The Synopsis

Michael tracks the meteoric rise of Michael Jackson from the early days of the Jackson 5 to the peak of the Thriller and Bad eras. With a reported $155 million production budget (some report this as being $200 million), the film had high expectations to meet. The film has not only met them but is now heavily rolling towards the $1 billion mark.

Featured Photo: Lionsgate; Michael fans in Japan

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