Reid Carolin: Last News

The third installment of the “Magic Mike” saga is finally coming together thanks to HBO Max. The third male stripping flick reunites screenwriter Reid Carolin, director Steven Soderbergh, and star Channing Tatum.

Thandiwe Newton is stepping down from . According to multiple reports, Newton had to exit the project to deal with «family matters.»«Thandiwe Newton has made the difficult decision to step away from the production of Warner Bros.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAcademy Award nominee Salma Hayek is joining the cast of Channing Tatum’s new “Magic Mike” sequel, replacing original female lead Thandiwe Newton.“Thandiwe Newton has made the difficult decision to step away from the production of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Magic Mike’s Last Dance to deal with family matters,” a spokesperson for the studio told Variety on Wednesday.The film is being made exclusively for HBO Max.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorWhen Channing Tatum was promoting his latest movie “Dog,” he got the same question over and over again: Does the title character survive through the end credits?“People were saying I will not see this movie unless I know the dog lives,” Tatum says, laughing. “‘Marley and Me’ scarred everyone so hard.

On this episode of the Deep Focus podcast, host and Playlist EIC, Rodrigo Perez talks to Reid Carolin, the co-director and co-writer of “Dog,” which he made with co-writer/co-director and star Channing Tatum. Tatum’s been absent from the live-action big screen for nearly four years— the actor needed a break after his divorce and was feeling disillusioned with the industry.

Channing Tatum’s production company Free Association is staring a new division, FA Live, which will focus exclusively on creating, producing and distributing live entertainment.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterChanning Tatum is taking “Step Up” on the road.Tatum’s production company Free Association is launching a new division called FA Live, which will focus on creating, producing and distributing live entertainment. The first project will be a high-concept dance show inspired by “Step Up,” the hit dance franchise that spawned five feature films and a TV series.Similar to the interconnected style of movies, reality TV and live entertainment that Tatum and crew built around “Magic Mike,” FA Live will seek to extend big and small stories and experiences through their in-person events.Tatum and Reid Carolin, who recently co-directed the surprise box office winner “Dog,” will serve as chief creative officers.

After taking a step back for a few years, it appears Channing Tatum is ready to make his comeback with numerous projects. His first project, “Dog,” which he co-wrote and co-directed alongside Reid Carolin, just arrived in theaters over the past weekend, and he has another film, “The Lost City,” coming later this year.

The new movie Dog, starring and co-directed by Channing Tatum, is in theaters and fans will likely want to know if they should stick around for an end credits scene after the film.

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired the rights to remake the acclaimed German film System Crasher. Channing Tatum will star and Free Association will produce along with The Picture Company. Deal comes as MGM and United Artists Releasing today bows Dog, the comedy that Tatum and Reid Carolin co-directed a script by Carolin and Brett Rodriguez.

Not since Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates in 1941 and Lewis and Martin in At War With the Army in 1950 has a film raised greater concern about who they’re letting into the military these days than does Dog. Although he certainly possesses the requisite physique, Channing Tatum’s Army Ranger Briggs most of the time seems like such a screw-up that you’d definitely want him on the other guy’s team. The power of this Dog lies in its half-canine/half-human buddy comedy, which is genial enough, even if its aim is scatter-shot and its comic tone decidedly hit-and-miss.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Animals are people too!” a liberal yahoo in Portland yells before nearly getting his face eaten off by a Belgian Malinois named Lulu in “Dog,” a movie that not-so-secretly agrees with that sentiment, even as it has a laugh at the clueless animal lover’s expense.Lulu, it turns out, is a more complicated character than the one her human co-star, Channing Tatum, gets to play — which explains why it took three Malinoises to embody her on screen: one to do most of the “acting” (Britta), one to lie down (Lana) and one to look as incorrigibly homicidal as possible, like she could rip out your throat or murder Al-Qaeda, if necessary (that would be Zuza). But Tatum had the much tougher job, trying to disappear into the skin of a battle-scarred ex-U.S.

Independent Spirit Award winner Channing Tatum unveiled his cryptic new ink - 'L333' - on Wednesday, which he called 'basically a prison tattoo.'The Alabama-born 41-year-old - who boasts 45.6M social media followers - got matching tatts with his fitness trainer buddy Trey Allen, who got 'N853' above his left knee.Channing also Instastoried a picture of his Dutch Shepard called Rook, whom he adopted in 2020, captioned: 'My killer cutie.' 'Basically a prison tattoo': Independent Spirit Award winner Channing Tatum unveiled his cryptic new ink - 'L333' - on Wednesday Tatum adopted Rook two years after the loss of his Pit Bull/Catahoula mix Lulu, who loosely inspired his new movie Dog.The divorced father-of-one co-produced, co-directed (with Reid Carolin), and starred as Army Ranger Briggs in the thrice-delayed PCH road drama finally hitting US/UK theaters this Friday.'Lulu was my little shadow. She was everything. She was my best friend,' Channing told People on Wednesday.

Channing Tatum knows how much people want to see Matthew McConaughey reprise his role as Dallas in. Tatum has already got the ball rolling on the third installment of the franchise -- but says there is still time for McConaughey to return.“I didn’t know if Matthew would want to do it, he loves what he did in the first movie so much. He was like, ‘I don’t want to touch it,’” the 41-year-old actor tells ET.  “I mean, I’m not saying anything about mine or anyone else’s performances.

Marvel films after his pitch for X-Men spinoff Gambit fell through.Discussing the project in an interview with Variety, the actor explained Gambit was in development for four years after he had written the script with his producing partner Reid Carolin.“The studio really didn’t want us to direct it,” Tatum said. “They wanted anybody but us, essentially, because we had never directed anything.”He went on, describing the character: “He could pull anything off.

He stars alongside Sandra Bullock in the upcoming film The Lost City, with several other projects in the works.And Channing Tatum spoke out about career burnout following the 2015 flop Jupiter Ascending, leading to his absence in theaters for four years.The actor, 41, also talked about how the failed Gambit standalone superhero film left him 'traumatized,' in his cover story for Variety.He was set to star as the title character in the project, which was canceled in 2019 by Disney after their acquisition of 21st Century Fox. Candid:He stars alongside Sandra Bullock in the upcoming film The Lost City, with several other projects in the works.

really wanted to take on that never came to fruition, reportedly causing him significant trauma. Tatum was set to play the X-Men character Gambit in his own solo movie, with news of the film first hitting in 2014. However, that production remained stuck in development hell for years.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorChanning Tatum and his producing partner Reid Carolin aren’t just the brains — and brawn — behind “Magic Mike.” They’ve built up their company Free Association into a place to go for innovative storytelling, including the road trip movie “Dog” (which opens on Feb. 18), which they co-directed; the Starz TV series “Step Up: Highwater”; and the thriller “Pussy Island,” which will be Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut.“I think it’s a good partnership,” says Steven Soderbergh, who is directing “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” which Tatum will star in and Carolin wrote. “I think they have a shared sense of people and how the world works.”Tatum and Carolin speak to Variety about Free Association.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorAfter two movies, Channing Tatum thought he was done playing Magic Mike. But he’ll take one more swing around the stripper’s pole in “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” which begins shooting in London in March.In this week’s issue of Variety, Tatum talks about taking a four-year hiatus from acting to produce TV shows and movies with Free Association, the company that he launched in 2014 with his producing partner Reid Carolin. One of the company’s most anticipated projects is “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the third and (supposedly) final movie in the franchise that was inspired by Tatum’s days as an exotic dancer.The film, which will be directed by Steven Soderbergh from a script written by Carolin, will premiere on HBO Max.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorIn this week’s Variety cover story, Channing Tatum talks about the road to co-directing his first movie, “Dog,” with his longtime producer partner Reid Carolin.But before he came up with the idea for the MGM indie (which opens on Feb. 18), Tatum and Carolin spent four years developing “Gambit,” a raunchy stand-alone movie based on the “X-Men” mutant.The superhero project was set up at Twentieth Century Fox in 2016, and Tatum and Carolin had lobbied to share the director’s chair. “The studio really didn’t want us to direct it,” Tatum says.

He’s back! Channing Tatum will return for the third Magic Mike movie, and he revealed a few details about the latest installment in the franchise.