Jaafar Jackson will reprise his role as Michael Jackson in the Michael biopic sequel in the works at Lionsgate and the late singer’s estate.

In a new interview, Jaafar Jackson said he would want his uncle’s point of view on all the child abuse allegations.

“I think the second film will give even more insight from his point of view, because at the end of the day, [the allegations] are always from someone else’s,” Jaafar Jackson said in an interview with GQ Middle East.

He continued, “It’s someone else’s story. It’s someone else’s idea of what it is, and it’s mainly driven by an agenda. And that’s really the issue we’ve been having as a family – not having Michael’s voice being heard. I think that’s very, very important, especially in the late years.”

Allegations against Michael Jackson started in the early 90s and were not addressed in the first film, as the Antoine Fuqua-directed film ends in 1987 with the release of the Bad music video. The filmmaker said the biopic originally included scenes covering the allegations, but they were later removed to focus on Michael Jackson’s journey to stardom and what made him who he is.

“This first film focuses on Michael from his roots. So you get that idea of who he was before he had all the success and became the icon that people are familiar with, you understand who he was as a human being first, because at the end of the day, that’s who he was in the ’90s until he passed,” Jaafar Jackson said.

He added, “He never changed that purity, that sense of always wanting to find the good in other people. And no matter all the stuff he went through, how he was treated, what things were said about him, he never stopped treating people with kindness. He never stopped believing in and wanting to look for the good in people… even though he was broken, his heart still stayed the same… I hope that this is felt in the second movie.”

In an interview with Deadline, Lionsgate’s Adam Fogelson gave a timetable for when audiences can expect the Michael sequel, telling us, “We are targeting a production start towards the end of this year or early next.”

Jason Statham’s latest action movie “Mutiny” accidentally leaked Wednesday on Prime Video, just days before it’s thatrical release this weekend, TheWrap has learned.

The action thriller opens in theaters Friday.

According to an insider, the entire film was posted from a mistake in Prime’s product detail page that typically shows trailers. The film was live overnight and was fixed quickly. A small amount of users accessed it on the platform.

“I’m watching Jason Statham’s new movie Mutiny, streaming on Amazon for free right now. This has to be a huge mistake, right? My theater has showtimes starting this week!” one X user said.

“Someone is getting fired over at Amazon. They uploaded Jason Statham’s new movie Mutiny on Prime a day before it hits theaters,” added another X user.

In his review of the film, TheWrap’s William Bibbiani wrote: “Mutiny,” directed by Jean-François Richet (“Plane”), is a simple film about Jason Statham kicking ass on a boat. Or at least it should be. “Mutiny,” which doesn’t technically have a mutiny in it, takes the scenic route to its high seas hijinks, by way of a different Statham movie which takes place in bored rooms — sorry, I mean “boardrooms.” It’s like something went awry in the development phase and the first act of another, unrelated, bland action movie accidentally got collated wrong. I guess nobody noticed because Statham’s movies bleed together anyway.

More to come…

Chris Cuomo slammed Bill O’Reilly for saying he would rather vote for Vladimir Putin than Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA).

On Thursday’s episode of “Cuomo,” the host held O’Reilly accountable for saying he’d rather cast his vote for a Russian dictator than a Democratic senator from Georgia.

“You said you’d rather vote for Putin,” Cuomo asked. “You’d vote for Vladimir Putin, who is a murderer. You’d vote for a murderer over a U.S. Senator.”

“Well, when you frame it that way I might stay home,” O’Reilly replied.

“Probably a good call, Bill,” Cuomo hit back.

O’Reilly made the initial comment about voting for Putin during Tuesday’s episode of his show “No Spin News,” days after Ossoff made now-viral comments about President Donald Trump and his close relationship with his longtime aide Natalie Harp. O’Reilly called the remark a “gutter snipe statement.”

“You don’t get lower than that. This is the lowest you go,” O’Reilly said. “This woman is working for her country, whether you like the Trump administration or not. She has no history of doing anything untoward — none.”

He added: “This Ossoff, I would not vote for – I’d vote for Putin over Ossoff. That’s how bad this guy Ossoff is. Believe me, if I were President Trump, I’d be combing everything that Ossoff’s ever done – ever done – for doing this.”

Back on his NewsNation show, Cuomo tried to hold O’Reilly accountable. He pointed to the numerous times Trump has made his own comments – many much worse – about women in opposition to him. He pressed O’Reilly to at least see the hypocrisy in all the Republicans being up in arms over the attack on Harp.

“The idea that you or a Scott Jennings have your panties in a bunch over what Ossoff said about a woman connected to the president when this man does nothing but denigrate women for sport on a regular basis,” Cuomo pointed out.

O’Reilly scoffed at the thought and tried to turn the conversation to Cuomo constantly attacking Trump. The host remained adamant.

“It matters,” Cuomo said. “It’s a little rich, Bill.”