‘Terminator Genisys’&‘Magic Mike XXL’ Enter July 4th Frame Too Close To Call

June 29, 2015, 2:13 pm

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Remember those Independence Day weekends at the box office when records were set? Well, this weekend isn’t going to be one of them. At the high end of the July 4 holiday, you have former titans such as Paramount’s Transformers: Dark Of The Moon raking in $180.7M over six days in 2011 or Sony’s Spider-Man 2 posting a six-day bow of $180.1M in 2004. However, label this weekend as another case of too-close-to-call. It couldn’t be worse with Independence Day falling on a…

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‘Magic Mike XXL’ Review: A Bare Bones Plot Won’t Matter To Fans Looking For Stripped-Down Summer Fun

July 1, 2015, 2:24 pm

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2012’s Magic Mike was pound-for-pound one of the most successful films released that year. With only  a $7 million price tag it became one of the most profitable movies in a long time. Naturally, having grossed well over $100 million domestically alone on this investment, Warner Bros would want a sequel and that’s what we have in Magic Mike XXL, which opens today just in time to strip away the competition. Original director Steven Soderbergh replaced himself at the helm…

Non Story Of The Weekend: Channing Tatum And ‘Gambit’

August 1, 2015, 3:06 pm

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Channing Tatum, long touted to star in the X-Men spinoff Gambit, closed his deal. Is that a story? The only qualification was that one outlet, hearing the same rumor as every other outlet, ran a big misleading headline saying Tatum would drop out of the film, though in the story got only as concrete as saying “something’s up” in his deal making. Fox business affairs is a nightmare in any deal, and the rumor was that Tatum’s deal wasn’t making easily. Nobody really thought…

Rebecca Ferguson, Lea Seydoux, Abbey Lee On ‘Gambit’ Short List

August 6, 2015, 5:36 pm

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EXCLUSIVE: Now that Channing Tatum has been set for Fox’s Rupert Wyatt-directed X-Men spinoff Gambit, the studio is working on locking his female lead. This is a hotly contested job, the role of Belladonna Boudreaux aka Bella, and they’ve got a trio of the best and brightest testing next week. I’m hearing that Rebecca Ferguson, a revelation in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, will be testing; so will Lea Seydoux, who moved from Blue Is The Warmest Color to the 007 film…

Lea Seydoux Gets ‘Gambit’ Lead Offer, Opposite Channing Tatum

August 24, 2015, 3:36 pm

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EXCLUSIVE: Lea Seydoux has the offer to star alongside Channing Tatum in Fox's Rupert Wyatt-directed X-Men spinoff Gambit. This was a hotly contested job for the role of Belladonna Boudreaux aka Bella. As Deadline was first to reveal, the studio had a shortlist with Seydoux, Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Abbey Lee and Rebecca Ferguson of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. They were set to test, and then Ferguson dropped out to take one of the leads in DreamWorks’ adaptation of The…

Darren Aronofsky Revving Evel Knievel Film

September 14, 2015, 9:10 pm

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Rumors are racing around the web that Darren Aronofsky is circling the Sony Pictures Evel Knievel biopic that has long had Channing Tatum interested. I’m told there is no deal yet but that they are in early negotiations, as are the producers, with Michael De Luca believed to be one of them. We’ll tell you more when the deal gets close. Thetrackingboard.com was first with this. Aronofsky most recently directed…

Rupert Wyatt Dropping Out Of Fox’s Channing Tatum-Starrer ‘Gambit’

September 16, 2015, 2:55 pm

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UPDATE: I’ve now got confirmation that Rupert Wyatt has in fact exited Gambit. There are rumors that there was some disagreement over script and budget, but the director’s camp says it came down to timing. The film was supposed to start in November, and it moved to March, clashing with another commitment, though they wouldn’t say what the other film is. Wyatt issued this statement: "I was very much looking forward to working with my friend Channing and the team at Fox…

Channing Tatum & Weinstein Set Mike Vukadinovich To Write ‘Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock’

October 5, 2015, 6:32 am

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EXCLUSIVE: Channing Tatum and the Weinstein Company have set Mike Vukadinovich to write Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, the feature project that sees Tatum make his directorial debut alongside Reid Carolin. The project is an adaptation of Matthew Quick’s YA book of the same name about a high school student who plans to kill his best friend and then himself. In addition to co-directing and co-producing his Free Association banner and along with the company’s Peter Kiernan…

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Doug Liman Looking Good For ‘Gambit’

November 13, 2015, 5:09 am

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After what I hear were a couple of encouraging meetings it looks like Doug Liman will indeed be the director to take on Gambit, the X-Men spinoff at 2oth Century Fox that has Channing Tatum attached. We’ve written about Liman and the shortlist for this project before, after original director Rupert Wyatt fell off the project. Liman also has Railhead set up at Warner Bros, where he also is in early talks to do another installment of Edge Of Tomorrow with Tom…

‘Lip Sync Battle’ Ratings Hit All-Time High Note For Spike

January 12, 2016, 10:19 am

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With the Magic Mike star channeling his best Beyoncé and then Queen B showing up for Channing Tatum's version of her “Run The World (Girls)”, Spike had an online and ratings hit on its hands last week. Well, now the Live + 3 numbers are in for the Season 2 debut of Lip Sync Battle and it has  shattered the viewership ceiling for the Viacom owned channel. There were 4.7 million viewers tuning in for Channing, spouse Jenna Dewan-Tatum and a certain surprise superstar as Lip…

Michael Shannon To Team With Channing Tatum And Steven Soderbergh

February 3, 2016, 8:39 pm

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Rumors are running wild tonight about Steven Soderbergh ending his retirement and returning to feature directing with Channing Tatum and Matt Damon in a script called Hillbilly Heist. That report in our sister publication Variety doesn’t exactly match up with what Deadline is hearing: the stars in the package are actually Soderbergh’s Magic Mike partner Tatum and Michael Shannon in the leads, with Damon not part of the package. The title we’re hearing on this heist pic is…

Channing Tatum & Joseph Gordon-Levitt Comedy Musical Pitch Set Up At Universal

February 5, 2016, 12:04 pm

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Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy musical pitch based on an original idea from 21 Jump Street scribe Michael Bacall and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum are attached to star, and Bacall will write the screenplay. The plot is under wraps. This is for Marc Platt Productions which is coming off producing Fox’s musical Grease Live. Its Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing with Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan of Free Association…

NBC Orders Jenna Dewan Tatum Dance Competition Series, Channing Tatum To Produce

March 22, 2016, 5:01 pm

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NBC is throwing its hat in the dance competition reality space with a series starring actress-dancer Jenna Dewan Tatum. The network has given a six-episode order to the untitled project, from Endemol Shine North America. Dewan Tatum is executive producing the show, which marks the first series for her production company Purple Cup Productions. Dewan Tatum will also serve as a judge and mentor on the series, which is described as a fresh take on the dance competition…

Kevin Hart Series, Amy Schumer Projects, Channing Tatum Animated Presentation On Comedy Central’s Development Slate

March 31, 2016, 8:00 am

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Ahead of its upfront presentation, Comedy Central has unveiled a 2016-17 development slate that includes five series pickups, 11 pilot orders and 10 new specials. Among the pickups are two series spotlighting up-and-coming comedians that star and are produced by Kevin Hart; a series of comedy documentaries; and two projects from one of Comedy Central’s biggest stars, Amy Schumer, both featuring talent from her sketch comedy Inside Amy Schumer. She is producing a pilot…

Channing Tatum Enlists In ‘Kingsman 2’

April 13, 2016, 7:25 pm

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Kingsman:The Golden Circle just beefed up its cast with a beefy American. Channing Tatum has announced on twitter that he’s joined the cast of the upcoming sequel to the 2014 (released stateside in 2015) hit comedy spy-thriller directed by Matthew Vaughn. “I’m about to get all up in that Golden Circle,” he said in the tweet. I'm about to get all up in that Golden Circle. #Kingsman pic.twitter.com/LqCPJ6monO — Channing Tatum (@channingtatum) April 14, 2016 Set to…

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Jeff Bridges Infiltrates ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’

May 28, 2016, 11:39 am

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The Dude will next be fighting for Queen and Country in some capacity, as Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Matthew Vaughn’s follow up to his 2014 (2015 stateside) over the top spy actioner Kingsman: The Secret Service. The Iron Man and The Big Lebowski actor confirmed the news this morning the same way almost every other new cast member has: on Twitter, with a Kingsman graphic bearing cryptic text suggesting something about his character…

‘Vinyl’s Jack Quaid Joins Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’

June 16, 2016, 9:08 am

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EXCLUSIVE: Jack Quaid has joined the Steven Soderbergh-directed ensemble cast of Logan Lucky. Quaid, who co-stars in the returning HBO series Vinyl, was able to get Martin Scorsese and Scott Burns to allow him the flexibility to join a stellar cast that includes Channing Tatum, Katherine Heigl, Daniel Craig, Katherine Waterston, Hillary Swank, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane and Riley Keough. The film, about brothers who plan a hest during a NASCAR race in Charlotte, NC, is…

Channing Tatum & A24 To Produce 1980s Romanian Cop TV Show Spoof As Series

June 22, 2016, 2:01 pm

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A24 (The Carmichael Show, Playing House) will produce and fully finance action comedy series Iron Fisting. Produced with Channing Tatum's Free Association, the show, which will film a full season, was created by Brian Gatewood and Alex Tanaka. They will serve as writers and will executive producer alongside Rhys Thomas who will direct. The series will be produced independently and shopped to US networks afterwords. Iron Fisting is being done as a fake Romanian cop show…

‘Step Up’ TV Series Produced By Channing Tatum, Other Shows Ordered By YouTube

June 23, 2016, 5:43 pm

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YouTube is making its first big scripted series bet, giving a straight-to-series order to Step Up, a drama series from Lionsgate TV based on the film franchise that grossed $650 million at the global box office. The show will begin production later this year and will debut on YouTube Red next year as the subscription video service’s first full-fledged, big-budget original drama series. It is one of several new series unveiled today at Vidcon by YouTube’s global head of…

‘Splash’ Remake Hooks Disney; Channing Tatum, Jillian Bell Star; Grazer & Howard, Free Association Producing

August 1, 2016, 10:33 am

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EXCLUSIVE: Disney is moving full speed ahead with a re-imagining of Splash, the 1984 sleeper hit film that launched the stars of Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, along with Imagine partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the latter of whom hatched the idea for the fish wish-fulfillment story that Howard directed. They’ve got an intriguing take: It’s being developed for Channing Tatum to take role that Hannah played, with Jillian Bell in the role that Hanks played. I’m told the…