Channing Tatum‘s Magic Mike Will Return In A Third Installment Exclusively On HBOMax

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Channing Tatum revealed on his Twitter account that the script for Magic Mike 3, officially titled Magic Mike’s Last Dance is finished. Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Reid Carolin, who worked on the original movie, are also returning to their respective duties.

Original Magic Mike movie was released in 2012 with Channing Tatum with the titular role and Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn, Matt Bomer, Riley Keough, and Joe Manganiello in supporting roles. The movie was a commercial success, grossing $167 million against its budget of only $7 million. A sequel, Magic Mike XXL, also written by Carolin, but directed by Gregory Jacobs, was released in 2015, and it grossed $122 million against a $14.8 million budget.

Now, six years after the latest installment, the original director-writer-actor trio is returning for the final dance. Tatum revealed in his tweet that the movie will be made exclusively for the HBOMax streaming platform, so the box-office numbers won’t really matter for this one. But WB is hoping that fans didn’t forget about Magic Mike and that they’ll gladly tune in on this presumably final movie.

Both Magic Mike movies received positive reviews from critics. The original movie holds a score of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, while the sequel is also fresh with 65%. As for the audience, the original movie earned a 60% score, while the sequel is a bit weaker with 55%.

By day, Mike (Channing Tatum) makes ends meet any way he can – handyman jobs, detailing cars or designing furniture. But nighttime is when Mike really gets to display his many talents: He’s the hot headliner in an all-male revue. Mike sees potential in a 19-year-old he dubs the Kid (Alex Pettyfer), takes the teen under his wing and instructs him in the tricks of the trade. However, Mike learns there’s a downside to the stripper lifestyle when it threatens his romance with the Kid’s sister.

Magic Mike, synopsis
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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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