Third Magic Mike Movie Will Be Launched in Theaters, Not on HBO Max

The subsequent film within the Magic Mike movie franchise might be headed to theaters as a substitute of HBO Max, supporting Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav‘s stance that movies needs to be launched theatrically over streaming.

The movie, entitled Magic Mike’s Final Dance, will hit theaters Feb. 10, 2023, in keeping with Deadline. The information outlet stories the Tremendous Bowl weekend theatrical launch might be adopted by a premiere video on demand interval earlier than it’s obtainable on HBO Max.

Channing Tatum, who performs Mike Lane, director Steven Soderbergh and author Reid Carolin are all returning to the franchise.

The primary two films’ mixed world field workplace receipts have been about $300 million, and in 2017, the franchise gave rise to the favored stage manufacturing Magic Mike Stay. It started in Las Vegas and swiftly unfold overseas, arriving in London, Berlin, and Australia.

The reside exhibits additionally impressed the upcoming HBO Max actuality competitors collection Discovering Magic Mike.

“Is there anyone on display extra charismatic and interesting than Magic Mike?” stated Toby Emmerich, Chairman of Warner Bros. Footage Group, in an announcement on the time of Magic Mike’s Final Dance announcement. “We’re thrilled to be again in enterprise with Channing, Steven and their artistic staff to deliver again Magic Mike’s great mixture of dance, drama, romance and humor.”

Tatum, for his half, was reluctant to do a 3rd film, telling IndieWire, it was Sodenbergh and Carolin who lastly satisfied him.

“In my view, we had chewed up all of the meat on the bone, story-wise,” he stated. They’re basically films about guys made for ladies. We didn’t plan on making a second one.”

“Then all of our ancillary characters have been so good and enjoyable that we felt like, ‘Let’s do one other film and provides these characters extra actual property that we didn’t have earlier than.’ As soon as we did that, we felt like there was no different story,” he continued.

Nonetheless, after the Magic Mike Stay present in Berlin, “Reid and Soderbergh have been speaking they usually stated, ‘There’s one other film right here. We should always take a look at it.’”