| Michael Jackson delivered a posthumous thriller at the North American box office this weekend as the movie of his aborted comeback This Is It took top spot, final figures showed on Monday. The acclaimed film - put together from footage of Jackson rehearsing for a series of London concerts due to start just a few weeks after his death - scooped $23.2mn, figures from Exhibitor Relations showed. The movie took $34.4mn in its first five days of release as fans scrambled to get one last glimpse of the tragic “King of Pop”, whose sudden death in June triggered a global outpouring of tributes. |
