“Magic Mike’s Last Dance” is the last film in the “Magic Mike” trilogy starring Chaning Tatum.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.
- Magic Mike’s Last Dance is a 2023 American comedy-drama film
- It is directed by Steven Soderbergh
- It is written by Reid Carolin
- And produced by Channing Tatum
- It is the third installment in the Magic Mike trilogy, following Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (2015)
- The film stars Channing Tatum as the titular retired male stripper
- He leaves Florida for London to help a socialite (Salma Hayek Pinault) produce a stage play
- Originally intended to be digitally released onto HBO Max
- Warner Bros. Pictures opted to give the film a theatrical release following strong test screenings
- Magic Mike’s Last Dance was released in the United States on February 10, 2023
- The film grossed $4.1 million and received mixed reviews from critics
- A sequel, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, was announced on November 29, 2021, to be released on HBO Max
- With Channing Tatum once again playing Mike Lane and Steven Soderbergh, who directed the first film in the series, returning to direct
- Thandiwe Newton was initially cast in an unspecified role
- She was replaced by Salma Hayek in April 2022
- In July 2022, Soderbergh announced that there are developments ongoing for additional installments in the franchise for stories centered around other characters unrelated to Mike Lane
- In September 2022, it was announced the film would now be released in theatres, receiving a release date of February 10, 2023
- In November 2022, Gavin Spokes, Caitlin Gerard, Christopher Bencomo, Ayub Khan Din, and Juliette Motamed were revealed as co-stars alongside Tatum and Hayek
- Magic Mike’s Last Dance was theatrically released on February 10, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures
- It is Soderbergh’s first film to be given a full theatrical release since Unsane (2018)
- Marketing was largely done with TV spots on Warner Bros. Discovery channels
- iSpot estimated that Warner Bros. spent “just under” $9 million on the TV spots
- In the United States and Canada, Magic Mike’s Last Dance is projected to gross $8 to 10 million from 1,500 theaters in its opening weekend
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 46% rating
- Based on 138 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 5.4/10
- The website’s consensus reads, “Magic Mike’s Last Dance is loose and limber enough to entertain, although it’s hard to escape the feeling that this franchise has lost a step or two along the way”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 52 out of 100
- Based on 48 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
