17 Facts About Magic Mike

1.

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.

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2.

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

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3.

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

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4.

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.

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5.

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

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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

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.

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9.

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

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10.

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

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11.

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

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12.

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.

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13.

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.

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14.

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.

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15.

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

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16.

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.

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17.

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

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