‘The Other Hamilton’: Steven Soderbergh Teaming Up With Don Cheadle To Develop A New HBO Max Series

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.

HBO Max has lined up the second phase of its international launch, with 15 further European nations set to receive WarnerMedia’s streaming platform from March 8.

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed multi-hyphenate entertainer Rudy Mancuso. He joins a roster of top Sugar23 talent that includes Keanu Reeves, Steven Soderbergh, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Diane Lane, Jeremy Strong, Josh Gad and Sarah Cooper.

getting subscribers that is tricky for several of the top streaming services like HBO Max, Disney+ and Apple TV+. It’s keeping those subs.According to new data from measurement company Antenna, about half the people who signed up for HBO Max in the days following its “Wonder Woman 1984” release were gone within six months. (31% of them were gone within one month.) The same six-months-later loss is true for Disney+ and its “Hamilton” release, as well as Apple TV+ and its Tom Hanks World War II movie, “Greyhound.”While that trend sure makes for some wild swings in daily sign-ups and cancellations, keeping half of the subscribers from a huge surge is still a good thing for a streaming service.

Steven Soderbergh, who is returning to direct the upcoming third Magic Mike movie, is opening up about a major plot point of the film.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt triggered an intense bidding war that was ultimately won out by Apple Studios. But before the stars agreed to sign on, they volunteered to take a lower salary under one condition.Clooney opened up about the caveat in an interview with, telling the outlet that it was intriguing to watch how much interest was generated by the untitled film that will be written and directed by filmmaker Jon Watts.«Yeah.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentWhen HBO Max drops the fifth and final season of Neapolitan gangster saga “Gomorrah” on Jan. 27, it will also mark the end of a convoluted seven-year journey for Italy’s most widely exported TV show.“In Italian TV, there is a before and after ‘Gomorrah,’” says Nils Hartmann, senior VP of Germany and Italy for Sky Studios, the production arm of the pay TV operator that originated the gritty, hyperrealistic crime skein.Besides attaining megahit status in Italy, the show has traveled to 190 countries, including the U.S., where it ran into snags due to the misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Co.’s 2018 bankruptcy.“It was a big mess,” says Oliver Bachert, sales chief at Germany’s Beta, which was selling the show.

Angelique Jackson WarnerMedia OneFifty has acquired the short films, “Namoo” and “When the Sun Sets,” to be released on HBO Max.Both films are shortlisted to be nominated for the 2022 Academy Awards, with “Namoo” as a contender in the animated short film category and “When the Sun Sets” in the live-action short film category. The nominations will be formally announced on Feb.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterAT&T CEO John Stankey told investors he expects HBO Max to recoup all of the subscribers lost last fall after WarnerMedia pulled HBO from the Amazon Prime Video Channels marketplace in September amid ongoing agita in the TV industry about the fees Amazon takes for facilitating sales of subscription TV services.During AT&T’s hourlong fourth-quarter earnings call with investors on Wednesday, Stankey also noted that market conditions have spurred price hikes by HBO Max rivals, which means that HBO Max is not the most expensive of the major domestic players at present. Stankey didn’t mention Netflix by name, but the inference was clear.Last October, AT&T reported that HBO and HBO Max lost about 1.8 million subscribers in the third quarter after the disengagement from Amazon in the previous month.

EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle and HBO Max Nordic are getting behind the inaugural European edition of The Writers Lab (TWL), the program devoted exclusively to script development for women and non-binary writers over the age of 40.

HBO Max is offering 20% off monthly plans for a year. If you've been waiting for an opportunity to catch up on HBO Max's Emmy-winning show  and the reboot, then this might be it. When you sign up for an annual plan before the deal ends, you can save $2 each month on HBO Max with ads.

EXCLUSIVE: Ivory Aquino (When They See Us, Tales of the City) has joined the cast of Batgirl, the upcoming superhero film that Bad Boys for Life‘s Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are directing for HBO Max.

HBO Max is offering 20% off a one-year subscription. If you've been waiting for an opportunity to catch up on HBO Max's Emmy-winning show  and the reboot, then this might be it. When you sign up for an annual plan before the deal ends, you can save $2 each month on HBO Max with ads.

, production's set to begin in February in Hungary., released in 1983, was set in the 1940s, with Ralphie on a mission to get his hands on a Red Ryder BB rifle. Billingsley was only 12 when premiered in theaters.

HBO Max is offering 20% off a one-year subscription. If you've been waiting for an opportunity to catch up on HBO Max's Emmy-winning show  and the reboot, then this might be it. When you sign up for an annual plan before the deal ends, you can save $2 each month on HBO Max with ads.

The novel follows Alex Cassidy, a thief who has just pulled off a wild $22 million jewel heist in Las Vegas, and while hiding in New Jersey, falls in love with a party planning business owner named Diane. Alex is ready to leave his life of crime behind to start a new life with Diane, but when both of their grown children are kidnapped by a cartel, Alex is forced into one last job to win their freedom.

EXCLUSIVE: ITV Studios has struck a mega content package deal with HBO Max LatAm for the likes of The Bay, Bump and Romulus.

One of the most anticipated series of 2022 is nearing, as HBO Max is prepping the release of “Our Flag Means Death.” As seen in the first teaser for the comedy series, “Our Flag Means Death” stars Rhys Darby as a new pirate on the scene who comes across a very interesting cast of characters, including Blackbeard (played by Taika Waititi, who also directs the pilot).

John Cena’s Peacemaker shows off his moves in the opening credits sequence for the newly released HBO Max series.