17 Facts About Magic Mike

Magic Mike is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey.

Magic Mike was filmed in several locations around west central Florida.

Sequel, Magic Mike XXL directed by Gregory Jacobs, was released on July 1,2015.

Magic Mike Lane has big plans for a business of his own but pays his bills through a series of odd jobs, most notably performing as the star stripper at Xquisite Strip Club in Tampa, a club owned by Dallas, who has dreams of creating an "empire" of strip clubs.

Magic Mike soon meets 19-year-old Adam, a recent college dropout looking for a construction job.

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Magic Mike takes Adam under his wing and encourages him to begin stripping at Xquisite.

The bank declines his loan application and Magic Mike realizes that he has to stay in the business to continue to pay his bills.

Magic Mike later attends a hurricane party at Dallas' house, where Adam becomes part of a scheme created by Tobias, Xquisite's DJ, to sell drugs to Xquisite's clients, and is eventually given a package of ecstasy.

Tobias and his suppliers break into Magic Mike's house looking for Adam, revealing that the drugs were actually worth $10,000.

Magic Mike gives up most of his life savings to pay Adam's debt in full.

Magic Mike is directed by Steven Soderbergh based on a screenplay by Reid Carolin, who is one of the film's producers.

Magic Mike was first screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival as the closing film on June 24,2012, and was widely released on June 29,2012, in the United States.

In June 2012, a Magic Mike float was included in the West Hollywood gay pride parade and in other gay pride events such as in New York and in San Francisco.

Magic Mike proved to be a box office hit, grossing $113,721,571 and $53,500,000 outside North America with a total gross of $167,221,571 worldwide from a modest $7 million budget; it is the top-grossing movie under the Dance genre.

Magic Mike was more successful in red states than in blue ones.

Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike makes this argument with a crafty mixture of comedy, romance, melodrama and some remarkably well-staged strip routines involving hunky, good-looking guys.

Reality competition television series, titled Finding Magic Mike was ordered for HBO Max in April 2021 with Tatum and Soderbergh as executive producers.