Nosheen Iqbal

Sound design is by Rudy Zagadlo and the executive producers were Sami Kent and Huma Khalili.

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Historical first yesterday as Apple became the first public U.S.

company to be valued at a trillion dollars.

This is The Guardian.

This is The Guardian.

Today, the new Michael Jackson biopic.

Why now?

It's Wednesday morning outside the BFI IMAX Theatre in central London.

Michael Jackson fans are out in full force to watch the first screening of Michael.

This is the blockbuster biopic hoping to break records and make a billion dollars worldwide.

I've been waiting for this day since I was about 80 years old.

So I had to come as soon as the early preview started.

Despite a string of one-star reviews, there is excitement, anticipation.

Woo!

If it's a big year for Michael Jackson fans, it is a mammoth one for his estate.

This canny operation has turned the half a billion dollar debt owed by Jackson when he was alive into a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars in his death.

The jukebox musical, the Cirque du Soleil extravaganza.

And alongside it, dozens of themed events, shows, autumn-less brunches, memorializing him as the greatest star ever to be born.

I knew you were different the moment you were born.