Magic Mike's Last Link

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• Vulture on that impossible tracking shot in The French Dispatch
• InStyle Rita Moreno looks back on her career before hitting the big 9-0

More after the jump including Zendaya, Sondheim and New York City, C'mon C'mon, and the return of Magic Mike... 

• Cartoon Brew looks at the animated nominees for the Goyas, one of them made specifically to poke fun at the Goya rules for animated categories!
• TFE ...and in case you missed the Goya nominations, we covered those on Monday
• IndieWire Alfonso Cuaron will direct Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline in a TV series for Apple about a documentary journalist and a dark secret from her past
• Variety Terribly sad news - Jacqueline Avant, the philanthropist wife of recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Clarence Avant has been killed in a home invasion. The family was recent featured in the documentary The Black Godfather.
• Film School Rejects talks to Dolph Lundgren about his new film Castle Falls and action without superheroes
• Vogue Zendaya and Tom Holland make their red carpet debut at an awards ceremony in Paris
• W "Reflections on Stephen Sondheim's New York" Kyle Turner looks at the way the composer/lyricist captured NYC in both West Side Story and Company
• Interview Chloe Sevigny revisits her first magazine profile (for Kids, 1995) twenty six years later.
• Vulture Angelica Jade Bastién on C'mon C'mon. Always love reading her
• Variety Actress Arlene Dahl (The Bride Goes Wild, Jamaica Run, Journey to the Center of the Earth) has passed away at 96
• New York Theater lists all the shows that are opening or reopening this month. Live theater is back!!!

Finally
In sequel news we're actually excited about Channing Tatum has just revealed that he's giving us one final Magic Mike film. We maintain that the first film is a modern classic and the second a lot of fun (albeit in different ways). Steven Soderbergh (direction) and Reid Carolin (script) are both returning, too. No word yet on plot or other cast members. 

This time the film is skipping theaters (which seems crazy given how profitable the first two were theatrically) and is just an HBOMax release. We wonder if the Academy will continue to let films that dont screen ever theatrically into the Oscars (not that Magic Mike is an Oscar draw -- though the first one shoulda been) or if they'll readjust their rules back to pre-pandemic days next year? We hope for the latter if only because the lines are way to blurred now between television and film. That might not be a problem for consumers but it's a major problem for the Oscars and the Emmys which really need to have their own identities to thrive. 

Comments

[thevoid99]

I hope Magic Mike 3 gets a theatrical release. Plus, I hope everyone minus Alex Pettyfor (he's bland) and Amber Turd return with Mike doing one last performance to deal with Dallas just as he is about to embark on a major change in his life and he needs his boys to help him.

[Joseph W]

Co-sign everything you said about Magic Mike. The first was awards worthy and the second was lots of fun.

If Christmas At The Square is what wins TV movie now, movies that only play TV better submit to Emmys. Boys In The Band coulda won last year. Emmys are also good for getting multiple supporting nominations. Maybe we’ll have a full roster of Magic Men 😂