Channing Tatum creating a 'Magic Mike Live' for Las Vegas and the world
Also in Tattle: Space Invaders, movie trailers, a Joe Frazier biography, Big Rube and more
GET YOUR plane tickets to Las Vegas and your wads of dollar bills, ladies.
Magic Mike wants to meet you there.
Fittingly, on the Strip.
According to the Washington Post, Channing Tatum, star of the Magic Mike movies, is working on the next step for the franchise, "Magic Mike Live."
It will debut next March at Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and will feature live exotic male dancers.
The project is a partnership with Cosmopolitan magazine, which will solicit feedback and input from women so the show can really be geared to women and not what men think women want.
"What if we created a world where women are given the same options that men have been given for centuries?" Tatum asks in the video announcement.
"God knows we have enough gentlemen's clubs in this world, so let's start the first gentleladies' club - or, maybe not so gentle. Depends on what you're into," Tatum said, holding a tiny, fluffy white dog.
"We really, really need to hear what it is that you want," Tatum said via Facebook. "We need to change what male entertainment has been for years. For 40, 50 years it hasn't changed. We want to make it better . . . I hate when I say it, but it's time to revolutionize."
Who knew Channing Tatum had so much in common with Bernie Sanders?
If the show works in Las Vegas, Tatum hopes to take it on the road and around the world.
Good to hear there are going to be some job opportunities for studly male journalists.
There's a Hall of Fame?
A video game that had players zapping space aliens with lasers and another that put players in covered wagons have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
The class of 2016 was honored at The Strong museum in Rochester on Thursday. Inductees are: "Space Invaders" and "The Oregon Trail," along with "Grand Theft Auto III," "Sonic the Hedgehog," "The Legend of Zelda" and "The Sims."
The winners were chosen from among 15 finalists culled from thousands of nominations.
The Strong established the hall last year to recognize electronic games that had longevity and influenced the gaming industry or society.
Contenders that missed the final cut were: "John Madden Football," "Elite," "Final Fantasy," "Minecraft," "Nurburgring," "Pokemon Red and Green," "Sid Meier's Civilization," "Street Fighter II" and "Tomb Raider."
In its acceptance speech, "Space Invaders" thanked its quarter slot for making it all happen.
There are awards?
While Disney's
The Jungle Book
dominates the box office, the team responsible for getting the word out also got its due at the Golden Trailer Awards. The film won a top four honors at the annual celebration of movie marketing, held in Beverly Hills.
Warner Bros. picked up the most prizes for an individual studio with 11 awards for achievements like best comedy trailer for Keanu. Disney followed with 10, only two of which were for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, even though the release of the film's trailers and posters became veritable cultural events.
Wayne Brady hosted the lively ceremony, which keeps things light with awards like trashiest poster for Dirty Grandpa.
LOCAL TATTBITS
* Congrats to former
Daily News
colleague
Mark Kram
, who's inked a deal with Ecco Books to write a biography of
Smokin' Joe Frazier
.
Kram is the PEN/ESPN Award-winning author of Like Any Normal Day, the gut-wrenching book about Buddy and Jimmy Miley and their life-changing relationship.
Working title for the Frazier book is Gallant Man.
* Daily News "StreetGazing" photographer "Big Rube" Harley will have a Panini Pop-up today at Slice Pizza (1740 Sansom St.). On the menu will be beef short ribs, carmelized onions and fontina cheese, from 10 a.m. until he runs out of food.
* Philadelphia barber Diego Rivera had his shop crowded recently with a Los Angeles film crew and actors shooting a McDonald's commercial.
King of Shave (1201 Pine St.) is shown in two scenes in which young African-American men get haircuts while enjoying McDonald's all-day breakfasts.
You deserve a fade today.
- Daily News wire services
contributed to this report.
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