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A biopic about Michael Jackon ("Michael") was announced recently with Michael's nephew Jaafar portraying him, and some sources say the movie is already breaking records.

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This artical states that Michael Jackson's unreleased biopic is already breaking records. After reading through the article the record the movie supposedly broke was the trailer racking up 116.2 million veiws in the first 24 hours, higher than any other biopic trailer. The analytics the article used to find this information is from WaveMetrix. I couldnt find the exact statistic from WaveMetrix, but I was able to find other articles from Billboard and Deadline stating the same thing. Both are known to be reletively credible. I also checked out the official biopic trailers on Youtube found that they all rack up to about 75 million veiws. While I couldn't find the exact information from WaveMetrix I decided to do research on the company itself and found its a generally reliable site for metric data information. Potential biases for this claim could be trying to build further hype around the release of the biopic or creating false news for website attention, but overall this claim seems to be true. There are multiple credible articles stating the same information about the Michael Jackson biopic's reach, and the source the site uses for its information is a trusted source.
 

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Nice work finding several sources to back up your fact-check. In the future, please include source links. Thanks!

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