Channing Tatum needs money: Magic Mike 3 is happening

Some fresh meat in the cast?

“Last Dance” sounds pretty definitive. Maybe they all die of close contact Covid in this one?

Donna Summer soundtrack?

Given that it’s going straight to HBO Max, they got a huge upfront payday. Also means they’re going to shaft everyone in the original cast so they don’t have to share it.

I'm more interested in his upcoming movie with Brad Pitt, Lost City of D, even though it's probably not what I want it to be about.

That movie was retitled to “The Lost City.”

The best part of the video should be in the Extras, where Channing details how he strips the weight off to make his magic mike bulge visible.

Tragic Mike

R6, I prefer "Lost City of D" for obvious reasons.

Hmmm.

Let me check my schedule for my availability....

JEAH, BABY!

Unless this shows some full-frontal male flesh (of the non-prosthetic variety), I'm staying away from this stinker.

Guarantee no one from the previous movies will have anything more than a cameo

Doing it for HBO Max, CT & SS are probably getting $20 million plus upfront. The old cast were paid thru deferred compensation from the theatrical release of the two previous movies, and forfeiting that for HBO Max, they would have to pay them a lot of money upfront to return. Much easier to cast the movie with young unknown hardbodies who work for peanuts instead of shelling out big bucks for an over 40 stripper.

I bet the plot will have Magic Mike assembling a new troupe to perform in Las Vegas, so they can crosspromote the stupid live show.

I agree with the previous poster. This will totally end up being "Magic Mike: The Next Generation." It sounds like Magic Mike/Channing's Character is going to retire.

As for the others, a lot of them are in their mid-40s. They're not getting Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer or Donald Glover for peanuts.

If any of the people from the other casts come back it will be for a cameo to update the audience on what happened to them and I could see them just mentioning them verbally to save even more money.

The saga of making male stripper movies that have to be self serious instead of sexy and fun continues.

"Magic Mike 3: Still Whoring After All These Years"

Starring Channing Tatum, and Other Hot Actors, But Again NOT Alex Pettyfer

Ummmm he doesn’t need the money. Lmao.

He divorced in 2020. He needs the money. Many acting careers are filled with projects only taken to pay for divorces.

Bingo

R13 Young, unknown hardbodies sounds pretty good to me.

[Quote] Much easier to cast the movie with young unknown hardbodies who work for peanuts

So a bunch of CW actors then?

[Quote] Many acting careers are filled with projects only taken to pay for divorces.

Guess this explains why Jenna is doing Superman.

They could raid Tyler Perry’s stable of men, a few are HAWT as well as sexually ambiguous.

Tatum has child support, is fighting over Magic Mike earnings w/ his ex, and is currently dating Zoe Kravitz. If his relationship w/ Zoe turns into a long-term one and they want kids, then he needs to make more money.

Does anyone present hole?

It's 2021 for chrissake.

At this point, who wants to see a movie about strippers in their 40's?

IMO, it felt like MM2 was pretty final

Just as long as they don't bring Cody Horn back. I'm glad she wasn't in the second movie.

LOL they will not cast CW stars, they will cast nobodies. Someone like David Corenswet if they can find the dark bar he’s been hiding in.

They were able to get TV stars for the first movie because it they were able to tempt them with the glamour of a theatrical release. No such beans this time around.

[Quote] LOL they will not cast CW stars, they will cast nobodies.

There's a difference?

He’ll do fine as long as he hasn’t put on twenty pounds of booze weight.

The first movie wasn’t that great and I’ve never been able to make it through the sequel. Pretty amazing you can make a boring movie about strippers.

[quote] LOL they will not cast CW stars, they will cast nobodies

I don’t see a difference?

Hopefully they realized that what people liked about the first movie was seeing these Hollywood actors stripping and showing their asses. No one walked of the theatre saying "This movie needed Jada Pinkett Smith".

Yes the first film was buoyed by a huge wave of curiosity about seeing Matt Bomer’s giant ass. Now he shows it all the time.

[quote]Channing Tatum needs money: Magic Mike 3 is happening

Hey, you think they give those Turkish Hair Transplants away for free!

Remember how beautiful David Corenswet was?

And then he disappeared totally!

[quote] Matt Bomer’s giant ass.

Giant?

[quote]Matt Bomer’s giant ass.

[quote]Giant?

R39, Just let it go. That person suffers from delusions.

[quote]And then he disappeared totally!

Cute but boring. Corenswet has an HBO mini-series coming out next year. COVID derailed a lot of people making things that should have gone into production earlier go into production later.

He isn't, however, a CW star. It's funny that person named him but couldn't name an actual CW star. KJ Apa would totally do this but demand to be the lead.

He'd need a Peyton Alex Smith, Michael Vlamis or Alex Saxon. Yes, they're on the CW and yes, I had to look those names up.

Murphy gave him a starring turn in Hollywood and honestly David Corenswet didn't do that great with the opportunity r38. It was other people around him in the cast that got praise.

They can cast instagram models like Topel, Sandell or Boselli, since they're all cheap whores.

[quote] They can cast instagram models like Topel

If he were a rich man would he have to take this role?

If someone told me David Corenswet went to Julliard, I'd assume it was for an out call on campus. He's Exhibit A for anyone looking for evidence of tall, handsome men being graded on a generous curve.

KJ Apa would be perfect for this.

Channing doesn't need money. He has plenty to go around. Exes fight over money just for the sport.

If I were Channing I would devote myself to ensembles with good directors and varied casts. He is very well-liked among his peers and has a good-guy reputation in Hollywood. If "Marky Mark" -- who is NOT liked by his peers -- can get an Oscar nomination then Channing can certainly WIN an Oscar. It's in his future.

R46 = idiot.

I had no idea David Corenswet is 28. He’d be too old to play a young stripper. Someone around KJ Apa’s age of 24 is just right.

I find David Corenswet and Finn Wittrock both to be extremely handsome and solid, though not spectacular, actors.

Neither seems to be able to break out.

They should just make the cast full of actors whom Melissa Benoit fucked, since she loves hardbodies.

The whole concept of Magic Mike is outdated at this point...a former stripper living in Florida would be recruiting younger guys for his gay porn studio, not to strip at a club. If Matt Bomer is involved, he could play a Sean Cody type living large on the west coast, who reaches out to Mike to work for him as a recruiter.

By the way, I had no idea the first 2 made so much money! The 1st one made 23 times its original budget...the 2nd one made 8 times its original budget. No wonder the cash cow continues to be milked.

[quote] LOL they will not cast CW stars, they will cast nobodies. Someone like David Corenswet if they can find the dark bar he’s been hiding in.

What about bootylicious Garrett Clayton! He could most definitely twerk that hot hole. And he’s not that famous, so he would be cheaper.

Magic Mike 3: Unknown Hardbodies

[quote] the 2nd one made 8 times its original budget

That surprises me given that on DL people wrote it was a dud.

R51 How soon before we end up with Magic Mike the tv series? Maybe then they can break the no homo rule.

People on DL wrote it was a dud merely because they didn't like it. A lot of know-it-alls on DL discuss show biz with very little understanding how things work on a fundamental level (eg, that profitability is in relation to costs, or that the global marketplace is larger/more important than domestic).

I won't claim that MM XL was a good film, but it had entertaining moments. It was targeted to women, and that's who went to see it.

R54, compared to the first one it was a dud. Financially is another story but it wasn't a huge as the first. They really decided to get more serious instead of having more fun. There was less everything that made the first one fun because they thought people wanted things to be more serious. They were wrong. It needs to know what it is: a film about strippers.

[quote]It was targeted to women, and that's who went to see it.

The movies were targeted to women.

The promotion, as usual, was targeted towards gay men and women.

That's also partially why people though it was a dud here because when you saw the film after they got you in the seats you realized, it's not for you.

If Magic Mike is recruiting guys for a live Vegas stage show then the concept can’t be outdated because it actually exists.

R55 they already made one

[R47] = cunt

It's interesting how an unabashed whore turns into a school marm when it comes time to bottom on film. The scene was worse than bad...it was boring and unsexy.

Funny how Sean Cody models who identified as straight turned in far better performances despite not being as outwardly whorey as Bo Sinn (Peter, Joey, Jamie, Noel, Curtis and Tanner come to mind).

What the hell?

Hopefully Jada is not signed to it

This is kind of depressing. After all these years, this is the best Channing can do.

Plus the film with Sandra Bullock- sad

R50 so Blake Jenner, Chris Wood, Tyler Hoechlin and Mechad Brooks?

It’s pronounced “Heck-lin”.

Why did someone refer to Matt Bomer’s ass as giant? It’s relatively small if well shaped.

R65 bless you for still following him on twitter.

Steven Soderbergh and that cunty Jules Asner are a weird coupling.

Let us not forget that the first one had Matthew McConaughey's musty butthole.

And the second one had deep thoughts and introspection about life and like 1/8th of the butts in the first one.

[quote] This is kind of depressing. After all these years, this is the best Channing can do.

Please he’s a privileged white male actor who was given tons of opportunities post Magic Mike that never materialized because he is arrogant

He delayed Gambit for so long that Disney bought Fox in the meantime and negated the need for it! That movie had how many directors that walked away?

CT only wants to make movies if he has his way which is why everything he does is written by his lackey Reid Carolin.

“‘Matt Bomer has a small ass’ and other delusions which exist only on Datalounge”

R68 why? He’s gay as hell and needed a beard.

I doubt any current CW stars will be able to do this, since CW will not let them out of their contracts to do anything other than CW stuff (and these shows' filming schedules are well known to be brutal). So you can say goodbye to your dreams about KJ Apa or any other Riverdale hottie shaking their naked ass.

David Corensweat was supposed to play Superman in some project, but thanks to the pandemic, a lot of projects got delayed and maybe even gotten their funding and budgets pulled.

r73, here. Yikes. Sorry about the bad grammar and typos.

[quote] Let us not forget that the first one had Matthew McConaughey's musty butthole.

It was shaved and groomed but I know it still emanated stomach-churning odor.

Corenswet was never cast as Superman.

The only Superman projects active are the two separate Black Superman projects at Warner.

r76, my bad (at r73). Apparently it was only a rumor.

[quote]I doubt any current CW stars will be able to do this, since CW will not let them out of their contracts to do anything other than CW stuff (and these shows' filming schedules are well known to be brutal). So you can say goodbye to your dreams about KJ Apa or any other Riverdale hottie shaking their naked ass.

This is partially true.

KJ Apa did The Hate U Give, Dead Reckoning and shared his naked ass with the world in the Michael Bay produced Songbird.

One of his co-stars had a couple of Netflix movies.

If you're in a position where the show depends on you being there, you can push to do movies. If you're recurring you can as well.

Other non-CW TV shows are another story.

And if you're an average cast member that isn't the star or recurring then no, you can't.

[quote](and these shows' filming schedules are well known to be brutal).

The original Magic Mike took 25 days to shoot.

Magic Mike XXL took a little less than 3 months with the caveat that people were flying in and out of various locations so not everyone was around all of the time. However, that was more of a road movie so it required travel to various locations.

I haven't seen a dancing potato head in awhile. So awesome!

DL favorite Christopher Sean would like a role in this movie.

[Quote] The only Superman projects active are the two separate Black Superman projects at Warner.

One of which is completely unnecessary.

[Quote] Other non-CW TV shows are another story. And if you're an average cast member that isn't the star or recurring then no, you can't.

This reminds me of when the creator of Batwoman said the cast better not go looking for any other jobs while doing the show.

[quote] One of which is completely unnecessary

Which one is unnecessary, and why is it unnecessary?

give me the cast of black chocolate over the cast of magic mike any day (and night!)...

R82 the movie about a black Kal-El. They could just do Val-Zod instead. Or better yet, forget about Superman altogether and focus on other DC characters.

Can they make this Magic Mike fun and sexy?

R85, sorry but this one will be about growing older, the passage of time and the losing of one’s looks because that’s what the public wants!

Magic Mike: Matt Bomer shakes his naked ass & shoves his bulge in a woman’s face

Magic Mike XXL: Matt Bomer sings and shows side cheek ONLY. He kinda removes his shirt.

Magic Mike 3: We mourn the death of Ken, and see a flash of ankle

Magic Mike 4: Ken is resurrected buck naked as our lord and savior. Hallelujah!

Magic Mike 5: They all wear burkas.

Magic Mike 6: It’s just a blank white screen with an old Asian woman in a top hat sitting on a stool, repeating the word, “butter” over and over again.

Magic Mike 6: Mike is a televangelist opening up a gay conversion therapy center in Pensacola.

Magic Mike 6 1/2: The Smell of Fear

Magic Mike 7: Trans Nation

Magic Mike 9: 9 by 6

The strangest thing about Bomer’s scene in MMXXL is that he is wearing a lavalier microphone and transmitter on his belt which is presumably why he did not remove his pants all the way, but someone who was an extra in the scene with him said he was not even singing live, he was lip syncing.

It was a very poorly staged striptease but I have the feeling Bomer thought he was too good for the material and didn’t want to do much.

Now of course he takes off his pants in everything he does.

[quote] someone who was an extra

Atmosphere player!

That Jenna Dewan is one hot lady!

[quote]It was a very poorly staged striptease but I have the feeling Bomer thought he was too good for the material and didn’t want to do much.

Please don't turn this into a Matt Bomer thread.

NONE of them did much in Magic Mike XXL. As has been said multiple times, they toned everything down intentionally. They didn't want to focus on the stripping as much so there was less of it and less nudity from everyone.

The first MM was a fun little throwaway film. The best thing about it was Matthew McC, musty or not.

Didn't see the second one. Sounds boring.

[quote]That movie was retitled to “The Lost City.”

[quote]Directed by Aaron Nee, Adam Nee.

Will they flip genders as well?

[quote] Please don't turn this into a Matt Bomer thread. NONE of them did much in Magic Mike XXL. As has been said multiple times, they toned everything down intentionally. They didn't want to focus on the stripping as much so there was less of it and less nudity from everyone.

Disagree because Manganiello did a lot with what he was given, including the movie’s only good scene. Bomer is just sort of anemic, basically cashing a paycheck.

I agree that Big Joe is quite funny (and hot) in MM XXL. He scores in the grocery scene and his moments with Andie MacDowell. And his "dance" at the end is my personal fave.

[quote]the movie’s [bold]only[/bold] good scene

You just proved the point. Thank you.

They nearly all went nude in the first one and not in the second. That wasn't because someone decided that suddenly they wanted to keep their clothes on. It was intentional.

The nudity level aside, Bomer who got second billing, could have presumably gone through the script and been like, “I need something memorable or funny to do” before signing on. But he didn’t rise to the occasion, he seems like he doesn’t even want to be there. A lost opportunity for him, but as others have pointed out real star quality does not seem to be in his cards.

Magic Mike 9 1/2: Weeks

This sequel reunites Mike with his long-lost birth father (played by Mickey Rourke.)

There's also a cameo by Kim Basinger as Rourke's FTM BDSM love interest.

Magic Mike 10: We Talk To This Lady About What It Was Like to Have a Gay Man’s Face in her Breasts

Adam Rodriguez is the only one who did the reality show so he may show up in Part 3.

Magic Mike 11: Finding Dory

Aging-out

Magic Mike: 12 Days of Christmas

Mike and a crop of new male strippers perform at a charity strip-a-thon to raise money to help save an orphanage being foreclosed on by a greedy Scrooge-like banker.

Damn they got Thandiwe

Not a good sign. A male stripper movie should be about the hot guys cast. This is Jada all over again

Soderbergh is gay?

I think he was a straight leaning bi guy who just ended up getting gayer and gayer as he got older, which is what typically happens.

Not the same R112 because JPS has always been annoying as fuck but Thandiwe is ICONIC. Love her work on Westworld and as Mona the Hormone Monstress on Big Mouth.

Since they hired a Brit I bet the movie will be set in London and be based on Tatum’s experience launching the London stage show.

I guess they can hire Greg Sulkin now.

Sorry Gregg Sulkin

Or Paul Forman

r72 Guess you missed it when Soderbergh knocked up some other woman and the PR spin was that he and Asner were on a break in their relationship at the time, since they were together when the news broke. But yeah, total homo. Thanks for your insight.

$20 mil paydays are tough to come by for any human being. This one happens to serve a double purpose, which is to continue to float the Magic Mike brand.

For those who don't know, Magic Mike was financed by Soderbergh and Tatum. It only cost $4 mil (which is artificially low, if a studio had financed it, the same schedule, actors, and crew would have cost $20-30 mil). Now Magic Mike is the new Chippendales--they have worldwide stage shows featuring male strippers. So all the franchise/merchandizing money goes to Soderbergh and Tatum.

In the next two decades, they stand to earn more off Magic Mike stripper shows than off their careers, and they're two very well employed guys. Soderbergh can use his tens of millions to finance his own movies and then sell them for distribution. Tatum can live like a billionaire. It's a smart move.

ROFL

No one has ever earned enough money off male stripper shows to live like a billionaire.

Steve Banerjee was probably the most successful person to do it and look where he ended up.

Lou Perelman also owned Chippendales and look what happened to him.

R121 Live like a billionaire might be pushing it but the economics of vegas shows are nutty and disgustingly profitable for talent OR owners of the show. Plus its an easily franchisable touring show. There can be only one stage show of say, Hello Dolly touring North America at a time. Magic Mike could have 5 touring companies all doing the same show and while ticket prices would be lower, the costs are probably 10% of what it costs to tour a broadway type musical. You just need a stage, lighting, and oiled up interchangable men. The ability to sell out these shows is also cheaper with internet/facebook ads than before where prohibitively expensive TV time and newspaper ads drove ticket sales. And they're doing this all over the world. Merchandizing is also easier with the internet. Before you had to sell to stores at wholesale, now its direct shipping. no idea why anyone would want a magic mike mug or t-shirt but they sell a lot of them

Show some twigs and berries or this movie is pointless.

Only DL would think that Steven Soderbergh is gay.

In addition to cheating on Jules Asner with women, he also cheated on his first wife Betsy Brantley with women. IIRC, he left Brantley for another woman.

He gay as hell now.

I would rather guess that Sonderbergh is pandering to the Gays, just like most Liberal minded celebrities.

[quote] no idea why anyone would want a magic mike mug or t-shirt but they sell a lot of them.

Don't forget calendars. This kind of merch sells like hot cakes.

Magic Mike 13: Friday the 13th

Mike and an enthusiastic crew of male strippers go on a weekend retreat to Camp Crystal Lake only to be stalked by a crazed killer.

ROFL No one buys paper calendars anymore, what is this, 1992?

There actually was an official Magic Mike XXL calendar. It was boring like the film.

r129, you do realize who is the demographic for this kind of things, right? You know, Fraus who buy all sorts of calendars, like the ones with cat pictures.

Sexy men calendars had two demographics: college girls in dorms and gay men. Older frau women buy cat calendars.

Twenty years ago you could probably find around twenty different sexy male calendars at a gay bookstore; now they probably have three or four at most. Paper calendars simply aren’t a big thing anymore.

R128 in a feat of casting beneficence, when the killer is unmasked he is revealed to be played by Alex Pettyfer.

[quote] Twenty years ago you could probably find around twenty different sexy male calendars at a gay bookstore;

You do realize that most gay bookstores are gone and people buy this kind of stuff at Amazon, right?

Stop trying to prove paper calendars are still a thing, r134. They’re not a thing anymore. Do they even have the seasonal kiosk at the mall anymore? Does anyone go to the mall even?

r135, they are still a thing when Amazon sells them. If not even Amazon was selling them, you would have a point, but that isn't the case.

Baby

The Chippendales calendars were actually a huge moneymaker, they talk about how big they were in the recent DiscoveryPlus docu on the Chippendales. They would fly to Tahiti and do the photoshoots there, and there would be an accompanying videocassette which you can probably find on Youtube. Again, a different world back then.

R128 The skinny dipping scene alone would be worth it.

Magic Mike 14: The Ben Gay Diaries

R128 That's not a half bad idea: male strippers meet slasher movie! Obviously, the appeal would be they get slashed in their underwear.

I would pitch a series about a troupe of male strippers who solve mysteries in each new town they visit. It would be like Scooby Doo with sweaty chests.

TRAGIC MIKE: A NEW BEGINNING

r142.

Now that would be quite the spin-off. Scrappy Doo and the Magic Mikes. Solving one mystery per strip show event.

r131 is correct. i saw Magic Mike in an opening weekend screening with a gay friend. Los angeles suburb. Theater was filled with groups of housewives.

Magic Mike: James at 15

A prequel featuring Mike and his best friend James as they navigate puberty and puppy love while prepping for a high school gymnastics tournament.

He says what most of the people in the thread have been saying:

[quote]"Right now, the guys from the old movie are not in it," he shared, "but there's some talk that there may be cameos."

Thanks for confirming the obvious, Adam.

Does E! just hire random internet pervs now?

R149 probably.

Movie will start shooting in London next month and Tatum promises “a full on ‘dance-ical” as opposed to the previous films.

Meanwhile, I made ONE movie about stripping's tamer sibling, and it killed my career! Jealous bitches!

Not aging well at all…

1) remember when male strippers HAD to be drop dead gorgeous in the face and a body?

2) off topic, but I find it interesting looking at the chippendales from 1980s to 1990's and which ones have gone to seed/gone to pot and which ones still look good in face and body?... yes, i know some of them are now in their 50's and beyond, but still some of them look really worse for wear, in fact, MOST of them. You would think that they would try to hold on as best and as long as they could?

Paid to be filmed dancing with the strippers for Sahara's Magic Mike cable promo show.

Multi-racial cast, all gay, and unbelievably talented ie gymnastics as well as singing and piano/insturment playing.

Talked to another young woman whose brother was a performer. He'd been a back up dancer and singer touring internationally. Just wow.

Soderbergh says the new movie will basically be a musical

[quote]Let us not forget that the first one had Matthew McConaughey's musty butthole.

His butthole was digitally removed in post-production.

because musicals are doing so so well at the box office right now?

This is not going to theaters, dumbass

[quote]R128 That’s not a half bad idea: male strippers meet slasher movie! Obviously, the appeal would be they get slashed in their underwear.

Didn’t David DeCoteau have a prolific directing career based on this very concept?

[quote]CT only wants to make movies if he has his way which is why everything he does is written by his lackey Reid Carolin.

Reid is or was much more than a lackey and in real life a lot sexier and smarter than CT. And Jenna knows the score so to keep quiet she'll get some of the cash she seeks.

[Quote] And Jenna knows the score so to keep quiet she'll get some of the cash she seeks.

Can't be much if she’s doing CW shows.

Reid Carolin is a classic Hollywood enabler, not quite the Gary Morton to Channing’s Lucy, but in the vicinity. He is very good looking.

He’s married to Cody Horn now.

Please God don't let him obtain a role for his talentless mannequin of a wife in the sequel!

Channing should change his name to Yum-Yum Tatum.

[quote]Can't be much if she’s doing CW shows.

She doesn't have it yet! Hence the fighting.

R164 Channing doesn't have a wife.

Pretty sure he was talking about Reid Carolin and his wife Cody

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