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Spike Lee BAD 25 Documentary- DVD / Blu Ray [available on iTunes Nov 19]

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Sheryl Crow. He could have done it without her. She talked very badly about Michael after the Bad Tour.
 
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bobmoo79 said:
You're correct, this documentary is a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the BAD album, and that is exactly why it IS relevant and justifiable to have stars like Bieber, Rhianna, Chris Brown etc in the show. Their contribution is as valid as the people who worked on the album or knew Mike at the time. It's their contribution that will show what impact that album has had, not only on the music scene 25 years ago but the impact it continues to have today, and it's their contribution that will play a big part in validating that impact. It's one thing to declare an album is still impacting today's stars, but it's better to demonstrate that with evidence from the stars themselves.

People who are moaning about these stars being on the show are just wrong. Simple.
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I agree, but he called Bieber just because he is mega popular right now. There are much better artists that love MJ that he could have called like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z.. even Britney or Lady Gaga would be much better than Bieber.
 
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AWARD WINNING FILMMAKER SPIKE LEE IMMERSED IN
MICHAEL JACKSON DOCUMENTARY


FILM FOCUSES ON THE KING OF POP’S GROUND-BREAKING BAD ALBUM, TOUR AND VIDEOS TO CELEBRATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALBUM’S RELEASE

New York, NY – It was announced today that Academy Award nominated filmmaker Spike Lee, in conjunction with the Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music, is in the final stages of post production of a Michael Jackson documentary focusing on Michael’s landmark BAD album and worldwide tour. The project marks the first ever in-depth, behind the scenes film project to chronicle a Michael Jackson album, and is being filmed amid the 25th anniversary celebration of the iconic album, record-breaking world tour and groundbreaking short films that changed music history.

The documentary features over 40 interviews conducted personally by Spike Lee with Michael’s confidants, choreographers, musicians and other collaborators who collectively unveil the real story of this “coming of age” project through their vivid recollections of what it was like to work day in and day out and live this project with Michael. BAD’s lasting influence is captured through interviews with some of today’s top artists, including Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Cee Lo Green and Sheryl Crow, who was a back-up singer on the BAD tour.
The Michael Jackson BAD documentary joins an incredible body of Spike Lee documentaries including the Peabody and Emmy Award winning, When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts and its follow up, If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise, Kobe Doin’ Work, and the Oscar Nominated, 4 Little Girls. Lee directed both short films for Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” in 1996.

Spike Lee comments, “I’m more than just a huge fan of Michael Jackson, and having the chance to actually know him and work with him, I deeply care about his legacy. With this BAD project I was able to uncover just what made this such a huge, important coming of age in his career and unearth compelling stories surrounding the making of the album, the long awaited follow-up to Thriller – the best selling album of all time – the short films and the tour that may have never seen the light of day.”

Among the interviewees are Oscar-winning film director Martin Scorcese, Joe Pytka and other filmmakers who worked with Michael to bring the stories in his songs to life on the screen through short films that remain today some of the most vivid and creative storytelling by a musical artist as well as one of his Michael’s personal engineers, Matt Forger, who worked with Michael at the recording studio at Michael’s Hayvenhurst home where the songs first came to life, keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, who worked on the album and then the BAD Tour. Also shedding light on the BAD album, short films and tour are individuals like former CBS Head Walter Yetnikoff, as well as choreographers Jeffrey Daniel and Vincent Paterson.

John Branca and John McClain, co-executors of The Estate of Michael Jackson comment, “Spike Lee’s genius as a storyteller combined with his passion and first-hand appreciation of Michael’s artistry makes him the logical filmmaker to tell the story of BAD. We are thrilled to be working with him on this unique project.”

The third and final album collaboration for Jackson and Quincy Jones, BAD launched a pivotal coming of age for the King of Pop as a performer, composer and producer. The album was #1 around the world, made history with five consecutive #1 singles on the Billboard chart, produced ten chart-topping singles, nine ground breaking short films and to date, the BAD album has generated over 45 Million units in sales. BAD was nominated for six Grammys and won two; the album earned Michael the first-ever Video Vanguard Award at the MTV VMA Awards. Songs on the original album are: “Bad,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Speed Demon,” “Liberian Girl,” “Just Good Friends” featuring Stevie Wonder, “Another Part of Me,” “Man in the Mirror,” “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Dirty Diana,” “Smooth Criminal,” with “Leave Me Alone” added to the CD version of the album once released.

Spike Lee’s film supports the 25th anniversary of BAD, which will also be celebrated with the September 18th release of BAD 25, a must-have deluxe package featuring three CDs, two collectible booklets, and features the first-ever authorized DVD release of a concert from the record breaking BAD tour, the concert at Wembley Stadium on July 16, 1988 attended by Princess Diana, Prince Charles and a sold-out crowd of 72,000 fans. A BAD 25 two CD standard edition featuring the original album plus the CD of demos and new remixes will also be made available as will a stand alone edition of the DVD and a picture disc of the original album.


More details on this and other exciting projects relating to BAD’s 25th anniversary will be announced soon.


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loveforever;3669282 said:
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‘‘We have footage in this documentary that no one’s ever seen, stuff that Michael shot himself, behind-the-scenes stuff,’’ he said in an interview Monday. ‘‘We had complete access to the vaults of Michael Jackson. ... He wrote 60 demos for the ‘Bad’ record. Only 11 made it. So we got to hear a lot of that stuff, too, so it was just a great experience.’’
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Oh my gee! What a lucky guy :mello:
 
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This is gonna be BIG. I hope they do justice by Michael, his fans and ensure it gets maximum exposure. After all this effort, I would love to see it get a theatrical release, but doubt that will happen. Hope I'm proven wrong. Have they confirmed what media will be used? This also should be made available on video - maybe combine it with the Bad tour DVD or separately in Bluray format. We need all those extras on record to replay!
 
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Rhilo said:
This is gonna be BIG. I hope they do justice by Michael, his fans and ensure it gets maximum exposure. After all this effort, I would love to see it get a theatrical release, but doubt that will happen. Hope I'm proven wrong. Have they confirmed what media will be used? This also should be made available on video - maybe combine it with the Bad tour DVD or separately in Bluray format. We need all those extras on record to replay!
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mkgenie said that Sony confirmed the documentary is being released for TV, and we already knew a 20 minute edit was distributed for viewing by TV execs just before filming was completed.
I assume that doesn't mean it won't get a DVD/BluRay release, but it pretty much confirms it's not getting a theatrical release.
Fingers crossed a decent TV channel in the UK broadcasts this show (e.g. BBC 1 or ITV) so that it'll be shown to a large peak time audience. That'll probably be the first pro MJ show since 'Living With Michael Jackson' to have that kind of audience in the UK. Come to think of it, none of the terrestrial TV channels in the UK have shown TII yet. Mainstream UK TV doesn't like to show pro MJ shows.
They leave it to the gutter channels to show anti-MJ stuff instead.

Now the documentary has been officially announced what we fans need to do is contact the large national TV networks in our countries and REQUEST they show it. If there is a large demand then maybe they'll buy the show...
 
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It sounds like it is going to be perfect document to me, I soooooooooooooooooooo exited :wild:
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OMG, I thought what if they don't show it outside of USA!!!!!
I'll go crazy if it's only for USA viewers.
 
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oh my god. the video preview they've just uploaded, even alternative TWYMMF footage makes me excited!!!!
 
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I just hope that Tatiana is in the documentary too.
 
SoCav;3669311 said:
Just saw this posted on Facebook. A first 50-second sneak peek that looks amazing!

http://www.michaeljackson.com/us/node/1269031
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I got goosebumps watching 50 sec clip, cannot wait to see the whole document:)
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"Lee’s film is due to come out later this year, but no date has been set."
I got so exited that I missed this bit:) So it doesn't come out the same time as BAD album.
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bobmoo79;3669303 said:
Fingers crossed a decent TV channel in the UK broadcasts this show (e.g. BBC 1 or ITV) so that it'll be shown to a large peak time audience. That'll probably be the first pro MJ show since 'Living With Michael Jackson' to have that kind of audience in the UK. Come to think of it, none of the terrestrial TV channels in the UK have shown TII yet.

Now the documentary has been officially announced what we fans need to do is contact the large national TV networks in our countries and REQUEST they show it. If there is a large demand then maybe they'll buy the show...
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I could have sworn that BBC showed TII a long time ago? It has been showed in many channels in Ireland too. Anyway, I'll join the campaign to get this document to this side of the pond too.
 
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GREEEEEAAAAAaaaaAATT !!!!

Can't wait!!

I just hope it is 3 hours long!!! :lol:

The longer the better !
 
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I actually have tears in my eyes just from sheer excitement. That's incredible. All those different takes. I cannot wait. MAN :D
 
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OnirMJ said:
Sheryl Crow. He could have done it without her. She talked very badly about Michael after the Bad Tour.
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No, she should be a part of this.
 
"Spike Lee comments, “I’m more than just a huge fan of Michael Jackson, and having the chance to actually know him and work with him, I deeply care about his legacy. "

I could cry after reading that little statement, that is the main thing after all. Hats off for Spike :bow:
 
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Shivers down my spine..
 
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OMG! This doc is going to be amazing.

Please let this be aired where so many folks can see it.
 
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AHHHHHHH that video with new TWYMMF angles has me going insane.... If there is ANY other footage from the Smooth Criminal shoot I will physically implode.
 
loveforever;3669282 said:
Spike Lee works on Michael Jackson documentary
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/...documentary/wVTUX0Ns6Y8oECPmPAna2K/story.html
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
AP Music Writer / July 10, 2012



  • ‘‘We really divided it into two things: Artists today who were influenced by Michael, and then people who worked side by side — musicians, songwriters, technicians, engineers, people at the label, who were all committed to Michael, to the follow-up to the biggest record of all time, which still is ‘Thriller.'’’
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Oh Spike Lee...he just had to remind everybody of this. lol

I hope this is a 3-part series documentary. We need the Bad era vault emptied. Beyond excited at this point.
 
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OH MY GOD! That clip!!!! New camera angles, I can't seriously put it into words how excited I am, so I'll just put this. YYYYEEEEAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
 
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bobmoo79 said:
Fingers crossed a decent TV channel in the UK broadcasts this show (e.g. BBC 1 or ITV) so that it'll be shown to a large peak time audience. That'll probably be the first pro MJ show since 'Living With Michael Jackson' to have that kind of audience in the UK. Come to think of it, none of the terrestrial TV channels in the UK have shown TII yet. Mainstream UK TV doesn't like to show pro MJ shows.
They leave it to the gutter channels to show anti-MJ stuff instead.

Now the documentary has been officially announced what we fans need to do is contact the large national TV networks in our countries and REQUEST they show it. If there is a large demand then maybe they'll buy the show...
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There was a classic album series that was shown on the bbc (they were reshowing black sabbath paranoid last week). Checked the other albums in the series, not one mj one. BBC 1 recently had a documentary on 25th anniversasry of Graceland and i remember a documentary on itv when Wing's Band on the run was re-released a couple of yrs ago. So one of the major channels better be picking up Bad25. If they can commission documentaries on mj's plastic surgery and his lesser known relatives looking for a holiday home in devon, they can damn well buy this one.

It was a great move to get spike lee to direct it - he has alot of credibility- and it's also a good move to get alot of 'hot' names in music right now to do guest spots - should make it more attractive to tv stations.
 
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Just saw the 50-second trailer. Wow... I'm excited. :jumpy:

Different angles of the TWYMMF video that were never seen before. Can't wait for more.
 
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OnirMJ said:
Sheryl Crow. He could have done it without her. She talked very badly about Michael after the Bad Tour.
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How come you wanted "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" to be finished by Quincy Jones after all he has said about Michael, yet you're against Sheryl Crow appearing in the Bad 25 documentary? That seems hypocritical to me.
 
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The new "The Way You Make Me Feel" angles are just amazing!
 
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