Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Matthew McConaughey hasn’t exactly shut the door on appearing in the third installment of Channing Tatum’s stripper franchise “Magic Mike.” But the actor, who appeared in the 2012 original (but said no to 2015’s “Magic Mike XXL”), is still waiting for his phone to ring about “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” “Channing Tatum, call me, bro!
I haven’t heard from ya!” the Oscar winner said when I recently asked him if he’ll be back in the role of strip club owner Dallas.“I don’t know,” McConaughey said. “I’d have to read [the script] first.
It was a helluva lot of fun doing the first one.” Tatum announced in November that “Last Dance,” directed by Steven Soderbergh, will be released on HBO Max.
Shooting is set to begin next month in London and Italy. …Not only does Troye Sivan star in the dramedy “Three Months” — he plays a queer Florida high school senior who finds out he may have been exposed to HIV after a one-night stand — but he wrote and performed two numbers, “Wait” and “Trouble,” for the soundtrack. “They are my favorite songs that have ever been written,” Jared Frieder, the film’s writer and director, tells me, laughing. “I’m still in shock.
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