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  "Michael" has reclaimed the top spot at the US box office, bringing in an impressive $26 million during its fourth weekend in theaters. Demonstrating its impressive staying power, "Michael" outperformed several newer releases, including "The Devil Wears Prada 2," "Mortal Kombat II," and recent debuts like Focus Features' horror film "Obsession," Amazon MGM's revenge thriller "Is God Is," and Black Bear's action-adventure "In the Grey," according to a report by the US entertainment site Variety.com. To date, the Michael Jackson biopic has earned $283 million in North America and an impressive $703.8 million worldwide. It is already the highest-grossing musical biopic in North America, surpassing 2018’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” ($216 million). Globally, the Queen biopic remains the top earner with $911 million, but "Michael" is on track to surpass that milestone as well. "The Devil Wears Prada 2...

  Audiences are in for another close encounter at the big screen in Steven Spielberg’s newest science fiction film, Disclosure Day. Created and directed by Spielberg, the screenplay is by his longtime collaborator David Koepp. Together, they developed scripts for blockbuster classics, including the first two Jurassic Park films, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Disclosure Day stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo. In 1977, Spielberg created Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a sci-fi masterpiece that quickly became a pop-culture mainstay. With Disclosure Day, the director aims to create another film that might answer some questions raised by his seminal box-office hit. “During Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I would say to myself: 'Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of this turned out to be true?’” Spielberg says. ”Almost 50 years later, I’m now thinking: ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful for us to actually...