Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” is It at the boxoffice

Michael Jackson’s documentary “This Is It” was king of the box office, opening to $68.5 million at the international box office and to a more modest domestic haul of $32.5 million in its first five days. The big opening convinced the distributor Sony to announce it is extending the film’s two-week run by three weeks in North America. Overseas, the decision to extend will be made on a territory-by-territory basis.