MTV Networks has purchased the exclusive TV rights to the Michael Jackson documentary “This Is It” from Sony Pictures.
The deal will make the movie available to MTV and its sister networks starting in 2011 for a six-year window. The pact allows for the title to run the gamut of MTV Networks’ music channels, including MTV, VH1, VH1 Classic.
“This Is It,” a documentary chronicling Jackson’s rehearsal for a series of London concerts that was to have begun just weeks before his death in June, has raked in $222.6 million in a two-week span worldwide since Oct. 28.
