Michael Jackson This Is It Review

by Nathan Taylor & Peter Lang

In less than a week the movie the world has been waiting for opened to an international box office take of over $100 million dollars.
This Is It the Michael Jackson documentary which shows MJ rehearsing for his upcoming comeback tour in London is fast becoming a world-wide phenomena.
Millions of Jackson's fans are praising it for the wonderful insights it provides into the perfectionist mind of this truly unique and talented individual whose life was cut way to short on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50.
The 'Peter Pan of Pop' is seen as a dedicated and hard working performer who cares not just about the concert but about his fellow performers as well. He may lose his cool every now and then or show his frustration but he always ends each mini outburst with the words "It's all for love".
Indeed, think what you will or like about Michael Jackson but after watching the movie, you can't help but think at the end of it, every song he sung, every dance he performed...it was..all for love.
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BRAND NEW Michael Jackson This Is It clip released

by Nathan Taylor
With just one week to go before the Michael Jackson's documentary This Is It is released a brand new clip has surfaced to entice audiences to go see the movie...that's if they can still get tickets.
Sessions around the globe have already SOLD OUT for the two-week showing, which is no surprise considering the amount of Michael Jackson fans out there. For instance his official Facebook page has well over 10 million fans...(that must be almost everyone on Facebook)
In this extended clip shown below we see Michael Jackson perform his hit Human Nature in what looks like a number of separate rehearsals cut together to make one song.
Human Nature being one of my favourite MJ songs is performed quite superbly even for a rehearsal and it just further proves that Michael Jackson was a perfectionist.
So see what you think with the clip below and I do hope all Michael Jackson fans pay tribute to him by seeing this movie as it will be unforgettable!

New Michael Jackson Song released

Michael Jackson's brand spanking new never-before-heard track 'This is It' was released early overnight on YouTube. The song which would have been the anthem for his concert series is now the title track to his upcoming documentary movie of the same name. The song is rather slow and a fairly nice ballad, but it is hard to tell from just 43sec of audio. The full version should be released tomorrow. But it makes me wonder how people get a hold of these songs so early... I wish they could give The Extra Source an exclusive!

Michael Jackson: This is it! Trailer

Last night at the MTV VMAS in New York the highly anticipated trailer for the Michael Jackson documentary This Is It! premiered to the world.
The movie which is to be released for two weeks only world-wide on October 28th and will set the box office alight.
The movie-documentary presents Jackson's concert rehearsal footage and other behind the scenes moments of his planned tour in London.
In my opinion the trailer is brilliant and I can't wait to see the entire thing on the big screen. It will be a great tribute but sad at the same time as we see what could have been.
Above is the movie poster for the This Is It! and below the brand new trailer only just released.
ENJOY!

Home Alone star is Jackson's father

Well that's if you believe outstanding reports today that Macaulay Culkin is Blanket Jackson's mystery father.

The Home Alone film star is said to have donated sperm to help Jacko create his seven-year-old offspring - real name Prince Michael II - with an unknown surrogate mum.

It's well known that Jackson and Culkin had been friends for a very long time, so it's not that surprising that it could be the case.

A source has said even Culkin thinks he may be the father.

"This isn't just chitter-chatter, even Culkin suspects he's Blanket's father."

"Deep down, I think he always wished Mack was his son. Creating Blanket was the next best thing."

I think this has to be one of the more crazier suggestions of who Blanket's father is, but I still think Michael Jackson is his biological dad... I mean he looks just like him!

Michael Jackson spotted...ALIVE?

We here at The Xtra Source like to bring you the weird and wonderful. And this one may fall under the category of weird.
Since Michael Jackson's death there has been speculation he is still alive. Most of the rumours have him hiding out with Elvis somewhere in Mexico. But a video has surfaced today on YouTube showing a man that looks just like Jackson jumping out of the back of a coroner’s van.
The person who uploaded the video said in a statement, "This video shows that Michael was still alive after his dead body was transported to the Los Angeles Dept. of Coroner I checked the license plate number and it looks like the King of Pop is jumping out of the same van, his dead body has been in. I got the original video tape from a trustworthy source. I know him for years. And I am sure it´s real and Michael is alive."
While I'm pretty much 100% certain this is a fake, it does make you laugh none the less. And I'm sure Jackson would've found it funny as well!

Coming to Theaters: This Is It! The Michael Jackson Concert

by Nathan Taylor

Very exciting news for fans of Michael Jackson, Sony Pictures has announced the rehearsal concert footage from his This Is It tour will be released as a movie in theatres worldwide on October 30.

The announcement came after Sony struck a court-approved multi-million-dollar deal with the managers of the singer's estate to release footage of Jackson rehearsing ahead of his London shows.

Only a snippet of rehearsal footage was released to the world days after he died, so it'll be very fulfilling to see the full show.

The feature "will be drawn from hundreds of hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage, captured in high definition with state-of-the-art digital sounds", Sony said.

I think this is a brilliant idea and a fantastic way for fans to see Jackson performing for the last time and to play it on the big screen is stroke of genius. Not only will it be very popular, but it also will help Jackson's family pay off some of his debts.

Michael Jackson: A Beautiful End

This morning I woke up at 2:50am to tune in to an event that I never thought I'd see for a very long time. Michael Jackson's Memorial service today was amazing, emotional and powerful.

The likes of Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Usher, Jermaine Jackson all performed their hearts out and paid a very fitting and beautiful tribute to this genius.

As his golden casket laid there fit for a king, special words were said from many of his friends and family. So many beautiful quotes came from the Memorial one in particular stood out for me by long time friend Stevie Wonder, "As much as we feel we need Michael here with us, God must've needed him far more." A perfect line to help all Jackson fans move on.

But perhaps the biggest tear-jerker was when his daughter 11 year-old Paris spoke on stage which seemed very unplanned. When she said "He was the best father you could ever imagine" and that she loved him so much, I think that made the whole world shed a tear...including me.

Long Live The King... Michael Jackson 1958-2009.

Is this Jackson's ghost at Neverland?

It's up to you guys to decide what to make of this story but Michael Jackson fans around the world think that recent footage from a CNN special entitled Inside Neverland has filmed a brief moment of the shadow of Jackson walking across the corridor from left to right before disappearing. Neither the presenter nor the cameraman noticed anything.

This is out of no disrespect to Michael Jackson as I am a massive fan of him but I do think it's quite eerily interesting.

What do you think?

See the vision here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2H0Oh3Dxv0. Pay close attention to the 17 sec mark. And read further more from this story at The Sun website.

Jackson's Final Performance

Yesterday Michael Jackson's concert promoter for his 50 London shows at the O2 Arena released rehearsal footage of Michael Jackson in fine form as he sung and danced to the hit 'They don't care about us'.

They released this footage to put to bed any rumours that Jackson was on 'deaths door'. Seeing this 1 min 40 sec footage of him performing so well made me really sad and upset as you could tell it was going to be an amazing show and he really puts perfection into everything he does.

It's unbelievable to think of what happened a day later and it's really hard to comprehend how a life can be lost just like that.

It's believed there is over 100 hours of rehearsal footage out there, so don't expect this to be the last you will see. I expect many more MJ DVDs and CDs for years to come yet.

To see this footage click through this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b54tTBU_u7k

Michael Jackson: King of Pop Dies, 50

The death of Michael Jackson today comes as a big shock to fans from all over the world.

He was a man that changed music forver. From the movie-style music clips to his crazy antics, Jackson is a man that made an impression on almost every single person over the last 40 years.

I am one person that was looking forward to his comback tour in London next month, just to see the 'Moonwalk' once more woud be something else.

A great life cut short, but his music will live on forever.

Michael Jackson, a thriller to the end 1958 - 2009.

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