00:00Tandyway Newton is leaving Magic Mike's Last Dance with Salma Hayek taking over her role in the Warner Brothers film.
00:07A Warner Brothers spokesperson said in a statement,
00:09Tandyway Newton had made the difficult decision to step away from the production of Warner Brothers Pictures, Magic Mike's Last Dance, to deal with family matters.
00:18Production had recently begun in London.
00:20Magic Mike's Last Dance will be premiering exclusively on HBO Max and will see Channing Tatum return as male stripper Mike Lane,
00:28a character loosely based on Tatum's own experiences as a stripper in Florida.
00:33Plot details are not yet known for Last Dance, but the movie is expected to wrap up the Magic Mike story.
00:39The first Magic Mike film grossed $167 million at the box office and was followed by the 2015 sequel.
00:46Both films' combined global gross nearly reached $300 million.
00:50Steven Soderbergh will return to the director's chair, having stepped away for the 2015 sequel.
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