On Friday, April 24, 2026, Antoine Fuqua's long-awaited Michael Jackson biopic Michael opens in theaters and IMAX worldwide. To mark the occasion, Synthrilla releases Baby Be Mine from the Thriller album — coming to the shop at the end of this week.
Michael — The Biopic Arrives in Theaters April 24, 2026
Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) and written by John Logan (Gladiator, Skyfall), Michael traces Michael Jackson's life from his earliest years with the Jackson 5 in the 1960s through the beginnings of his solo career. Jackson is portrayed by his real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson in his film debut — a casting choice that has drawn attention for its uncanny physical and vocal resemblance to the King of Pop.
The ensemble cast includes Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson, Nia Long, Laura Harrier, Miles Teller, and Juliano Krue Valdi. Lionsgate Films holds global distribution, with Universal Pictures International handling the international rollout.
Production wrapped in May 2024 after a SAG-AFTRA-strike delay, and the finished film covers the period most fans have been waiting to see on screen: the Motown years, the Off the Wall breakthrough, and the rise toward Thriller.
Synthrilla's Release: Baby Be Mine — End of This Week
In perfect timing with the theatrical premiere, we are releasing our next Thriller-album production kit: Baby Be Mine (BBM).
Baby Be Mine is one of the most underappreciated tracks on Thriller — a tightly arranged R&B groove that sits between Thriller and The Girl Is Mine in the running order. The production details are legendary among engineers: the crystalline synth stabs, the tight Rhodes voicings, the layered backing vocal architecture, and — of course — Bruce Swedien's bass through the UTC LS-10X transformer that would later become the foundation of our Synthrilla Bass Box.
The BBM kit will include the full set of Synthrilla tools our subscribers have come to expect: MIDI files, custom patches, sheet music where applicable, and our signature sound-design notes explaining how each element was rebuilt from original-recording analysis.
Why This Week Matters
For an entire generation of producers, songwriters, and sound engineers, Thriller is the album that taught us what production means. Michael the biopic brings Michael Jackson's story back into the cultural foreground. We think that is reason enough to drop one of the album's most technically interesting tracks into your DAW.
Release date: End of this week, alongside the Michael theatrical opening.
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