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Is Christopher Nolan Giving ‘Interstellar’ Lead To Matthew McConaughey?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 28, 2013 @ 1:47pm PDTTags: Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey
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Matthew McConaugheyEXCLUSIVE: Here’s an intriguing casting possibility to chew on going into the holiday weekend. I’m told Christopher Nolan has offered the male lead of his next film, Interstellar, to Matthew McConaughey. The character’s name is Cooper and while there is no deal yet, who says no to Nolan? The project is a co-production between Paramount and Warner Bros. Interstellar was originally set up in 2006 by Steven Spielberg, when Paramount owned DreamWorks, and after Spielberg became intrigued by Caltech physicist and relativity expert Kip S. Thorne and his scientific theory that wormholes exist and can be used for time travel. It was Spielberg who set Jonah Nolan to write the script, which made it easy for Christopher Nolan to come aboard after Spielberg left the project. After all, the Nolan siblings have a collaborative track record, with Jonah hatching the short story that became Christopher’s first hit Memento, and following that with two Batfilms and The Prestige. Christopher Nolan signed on in January to write a script that merged an original idea of his with the script that Jonah wrote. The ambition is a film that will depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are producing with Lynda Obst. Jordan Goldberg is joining as exec producer alongside Thorne, who’ll remain on as technical consultant. READ MORE »

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Matthew McConaughey Joins ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 9:53am PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey, The Wolf of Wall Street
Mike Fleming

Hot off Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey has signed on to play the role of Mark Hanna in The Wolf Of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese. Red Granite is financing the adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s best-selling memoir … Read More »

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Raunch Rules! R-Rated ‘Ted’ $52.5M And ‘Magic Mike’ $38M Weekends; ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’ So-So; ‘People Like Us’ Stillborn

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 11:58pm PDTTags: 'People Like Us', Channing Tatum, Hollywood box office, Magic Mike, Seth MacFarlane, Ted, Tyler Perry

 

June 29-July 1 Weekend Actuals

1. Ted (Universal) NEW [3,239 Theaters] R
Friday $20.6M, Saturday $17.9M, Sunday $16.0M, Weekend $54.4M

2. Magic Mike (Warner Bros) NEW [2,930 Theaters] R
Friday $19.4M, Saturday $11.4M, Sunday $8.4M, Weekend $39.1M

3. Brave 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [4,164 Theaters] PG
Friday $10.4M, Saturday $13.3M, Sunday $10.4M, Weekend $34.1M (-49%), Cume $131.8M

4. Madea’s Witness Protection (Tyler Perry/Lionsgate) NEW

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Steven Soderbergh & Channing Tatum Making ‘Magic Mike: The Musical’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 5:58pm PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, WME

EXCLUSIVE: First they made the movie and now Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum are taking Magic Mike to the stage. The film’s director and star are producing a musical adaptation of their male stripper movie. … Read More »

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘Magic Mike’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 13, 2012 @ 3:16pm PDTTags: Magic Mike, Warner Bros

There’s a lot less story development and a lot more butt in this TV spot for the U.K. market for Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. Lionsgate has the movie over there, Warner Bros has it Stateside where it opens June 29. The film based partly on Channing Tatum’s previous experience as a … Read More »

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Hot UK Trailer: ‘Magic Mike’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 18, 2012 @ 2:34pm PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh

Lionsgate, which is distributing the movie in the UK, has put up its version of a trailer for Magic Mike, which Warner Bros has in the U.S. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the picture starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Matthew McConaughey looks like it may deliver more than we expected. … Read More »

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Los Angeles Film Festival Lineup Unveiled; ‘Magic Mike’ Is Closing-Night Film

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Los Angeles Film Festival, Magic Mike

The Steven Soderberg male-stripper pic Magic Mike will have its world premiere as the closing-night film at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which today released its official selections for the June 14-24 event. Warner Bros’ comedic drama stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Matthew McConaughery and details Tatum’s real-life experience as a stripper. It opens domestically June 29. Also among the titles announced is the world premiere of DreamWorks’ People Like Us, written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and directed by Kurtzman. Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass and Michelle Pfeiffer star in the film set in the Summer Showcase sidebar. The festival’s slate of almost 200 feature films, short films, and music videos represent more than 30 countries. It already had announced that Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love would kick off the 2012 event as the opening-night film. Here’s the full lineup, with panels and surrounding events to be announced at a later date: Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Channing Tatum In ‘Magic Mike’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 18, 2012 @ 7:30pm PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh

Here’s the first official trailer for Steven Soderbergh‘s Magic Mike, with Channing Tatum as the title character. Reid Carolin’s screenplay is said to have been inspired by Tatum’s own experiences, pre-stardom. Matthew McConaughy, Alex Pettyfer and Olivia Munn also star. The Warner Bros release opens June 29.

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TOLDJA! Warner Bros Acquires Stripper Pic ‘Magic Mike,’ Bares June 29 Release Date

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 11:53am PDTTags: Adam Rodriguez, Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Film Release Date, Gregory Jacobs, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin, Steven Soderbergh
Mike Fleming

As predicted here, Warner Bros completed its acquisition of domestic rights on the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike, which stars Alex Pettyfer and Channing Tatum in a Saturday Night Fever-type coming-of-age drama about a young exotic dancer who … Read More »

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Steven Soderbergh’s Stripper Movie ‘Magic Mike’ Gyrating Toward Warner Bros?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 11:39am PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Glen Basner, Gregory Jacobs, Joe Manganiello, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin, Steven Soderbergh, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While several studios are in the mix on the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike, I’m told that Warner Bros has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire domestic distribution rights and that a deal could be done by next week. The … Read More »

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Wrestler Kevin Nash Cast In ‘Magic Mike’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 11:40am PDTTags: Film Casting, Kevin Nash, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh

WWE wrestler Kevin Nash has been cast as part of the male-stripper troupe in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, the semi-autobiographical film based on Channing Tatum’s experiences as a male dancer. Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer and Joe Mangianello … Read More »

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‘CSI: Miami’s Adam Rodriguez Joins ‘Magic Mike’ And ‘Dark Knight Rises’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 8, 2011 @ 4:30am PDTTags: Adam Rodriguez, Film Castings, Magic Mike, The Dark Knight Rises

EXCLUSIVE: CSI: Miami co-star Adam Rodriguez is the latest hunk to board Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. The coming-of-age story revolves around the relationship between a veteran dancer (Channing Tatum) and his protege (Alex Pettyfer). Like Tatum, Pettyfer, Matthew … Read More »

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Olivia Munn Joins ‘Magic Mike’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 31, 2011 @ 8:57am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn, Paul Schneider, Sarah Jessica Parker, Steven Soderbergh
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Soderbergh’s hunkfest Magic Mike is finally getting something that has so far been missing: actresses. Olivia Munn is negotiating to play the role of Amber, the love interest to Channing Tatum, who plays Magic Mike. She’ll join Tatum, … Read More »

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‘White Collar’s Matt Bomer Joins Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Magic Mike’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 4:01pm PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Andrew Niccol, Channing Tatum, Gregory Jacobs, Justin Timberlake, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin, Steven Soderbergh
Mike Fleming

Matt Bomer, star of the USA series White Collar, has joined the ab-worthy cast of hunks who’ll play male strippers in Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s next film. So far, Soderbergh has cast Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Matthew McConaughey. Magic Mike is a Saturday Night Fever-style coming of age story. … Read More »

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Steven Soderbergh Reiterates Retirement Plans: Wants “A Smallish Farewell Parade”

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 15, 2011 @ 7:29pm PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Contagion, George Clooney, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Magic Mike, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Soderbergh Retirement, Terry Curtin
Mike Fleming

While I have been on record expressing the sentiment that there are many filmmakers who should retire before Steven Soderbergh, I just got off the phone with the filmmaker. And damn it, he still wants to punch out by the time he hits 50. “I’m still following my plan,” he told me. “I’ve been stupid about it, I should have kept my mouth shut, but at the same time, I don’t think there’s anything that unusual about it. By the time I finish with the series of projects I’m planning, it will be 26 or 27 films. That’s plenty and if you take volume over quality; I’m twice as good as Kubrick.”

Forecasting his exit also didn’t help in terms of preparing the industry to make a fuss over him. “I figured by giving them two years lead time, they would line up those lifetime achievement awards, but there have been no calls or anything,” Soderbergh joked. Asked what he would like, he said, tongue firmly in cheek, “The Oprah thing. A year-long daily celebration of my fabulousness would be nice. Or maybe just a smallish parade.”

Soderbergh and I were speaking about Relativity Media’s decision to release Haywire, which it financed but set distribution originally through Lionsgate. Though that picture was shot before Contagion – the thriller about the outbreak of a deadly virus that stars Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law – Haywire will be released Jan. 20, 2012, three months after Contagion. Soderbergh will talk the picture up while promoting Contagion, which he feels will help an action film that leans heavily on Gina Carano, known only to mixed martial arts fans who’ve seen her fight on the circuit. Soderbergh also liked the Relativity move because it reunites him with Relativity’s new marketing chief Terry Curtin, with whom Soderbergh worked at Universal on Erin Brockovich.

“I think it might be best for Haywire to follow Contagion, which is the kind of film people like to see me make,” Soderbergh said. “It’s in the vein of Traffic, an entertaining multi-layered story about something timely right now. Because Gina has never been in a movie before, being able to draft off Contagion will be very good. We knew she could do the right stuff, but she really delivers as a screen presence. She looks comfortable, and then she tears these guys in half.”

Soderbergh said he’ll start work in September on Magic Mike, the film that will star Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer as male strippers in a coming-of-age story reminiscent of Saturday Night Fever. He’ll follow by directing George Clooney in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in February. After that, Liberace with Michael Douglas and Damon will likely be Soderbergh’s swan song. While I reminded him that he’s walking away at a time when he has plenty to say and the wisdom to know how to solve problems that maturity brings, he disagreed. Read More »

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Alex Pettyfer To Co-Star With Channing Tatum In Soderbergh’s Male Strippers Pic

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 12, 2011 @ 4:14pm PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh

EXCLUSIVE: This is going to gobsmack almost everyone in Hollywood. Not only did Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh just choose 21-year-old newcomer Alex Pettyfer for this juicy role in Magic Mike. But also, as Deadline has previously reported, the film has such an interesting … Read More »

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