Channing Tatum Videos of the Week

Do you know when you fell in love with Channing Tatum? Well, I do. I was sitting in the movie theatre last August and this Video of the Week played on the screen. The clip below shows the opening seen of Channing’s movie Step Up called “Where’s Tyler At?”. At a house party, Tyler’s dance moves impress his partner. Her boyfriend, however, is not so impressed.

He is so hot…I just melt everytime I see him dance. If I got the chance to act out one scene with Channing from any of his movies, I would pick this one in a hearbeat. What scene would you pick?

Channing Tatum Pictures of the Week: Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Painting

Each week Channing Tatum Unwrapped will post one or more of our favorite pictures of the uber hot Channing Tatum.

I am really excited about today’s fan submitted Picture of the Week because it is the first painting that I have posted. I found this awesome Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan painting in a Channing group on Myspace and asked the artist, Gilda Radwan, if I could post it on the blog. As I am sure you can tell, Gilda painted the famous Step Up poster of Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum. Thanks again, Gilda!

If you have a favorite picture from this blog, our photo gallery, a picture you have made or a picture that you have found on the net that you would like us to consider, send the picture or a link to the picture to potw@channingtatumunwrapped.com and tell us why you like it. We will post it and your explanation on the blog. If you like or don’t like the picture (for some completely insane reason), let us know that too.

CTU NEWS: Last Chance to Submit Your Photo for Channing Tatum’s Birthday Gift and FREE DVD

I want to remind you that tomorrow is the deadline for you to submit your photos that will be used in the photo mosiac gift Channing Tatum Unwrapped is creating for Channing Tatum’s birthday next month. You can submit as many photos as you want and I will make every effort to use all of them.

Also, remember that anyone who submits a picture for Channing’s birthday gift will automatically be entered in a drawing for one free DVD of any of Channing’s movies. The lucky winner of the drawing will get to pick from the following movies: Havoc, Coach Carter, Supercross, She’s the Man, Step Up, or A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.

Click here to learn more about the birthday gift that you can help us create or you can email all questions and pictures to fans@channingtatumunwrapped.com by tomorrow, March 31, 2007, so CTU has plenty of time to get the mosaic created and to Channing by his 27th birthday on April 26th.

The winner of the drawing will be announced on April 1, 2007. Also, we will post a photo of the mosaic on the blog when it is complete.

As the picture says, be a part of something BIG…help us make the BEST birthday gift Channing Tatum has ever gotten from his fans AND get a little something for yourself too!

Email CTU your picture TODAY!

Channing Tatum Trivia Question of the Day Followup Answer

Because you pretty much had to have a copy of Channing’s CSI episode “Pro Per” on DVD (or Tivo like me) to get this answer, I knew this question would be a tiny bit more difficult to hunt down. Although the answer took a little longer to come in than usual, I was once again impressed by my reader’s ability to get the job done in less than 24 hours.

Thanks to Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Lisa for providing the correct answer to this question in the comments on yesterday’s Trivia Question of the Day. Above you can see the proof from the screenshot of the CSI episode showing a picture of Channing’s character Bob Davenport and all of his vital data. Thanks again, Lisa, for taking the time to track down the answer this question!

Channing Tatum Trivia Question of the Day

If you know the answer to the following Channing Tatum Trivia Question of the Day, just add a comment to this blog entry and show the readers your Channing smarts.

If you don’t know the answer, feel free to research it on this blog, online, or where ever else you can get the answer. If there is not answer in the next couple of days, I will post the answer on the blog. Here is the question:

Today’s question is for the truly obsessed fan. The picture above is a screenshot from Channing Tatum’s episode of CSI called “Pro Per” where he played a criminal by the name of Bob Davenport. During the show, they identified Channing’s character by his fingerprint and we get a glimspe of all of the suspects vital information. Do you know the date of birth, address, height, weight, eye color, and driver’s license information of Channing’s character?

Channing Tatum Pictures of the Week: Fabulous Fan Photo Submission

Each week Channing Tatum Unwrapped will post one or more of our favorite pictures of the uber hot Channing Tatum.

Here is another great Picture of the Week showing Channing Tatum in his role of Jason Lyle in the 2005 inspirational movie Coach Carter submitted by Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Tierra T..

Here is what Tierra has to say about the movie still showing basketball player Jason Lyle studying in the gym:

HAY YALL I AM BACK AGAIN WITH A NEW PIX OF CHANNING. THIS PIX SHOWS THAT CHANNING HAS TRUE SEXYNESS. HE IS THE HOTTEST GUY IN THE WORLD AND THIS PIX JUST SAYS IT ALL. CHANNING IS TRULEY A GOOD LOOKIN IN THIS PIX. DON’T YOU GIRLS THINK SO? I AM SO JEALOUS OF JENNA FOR HAVING HIM. I MEAN, AFTER ALL, JUST LOOK AT HIM. MY SISTER TAMIRRA T. THINKS THE SAME THING TOO.
- TIERRA T.

Thanks again Tierra for your great photo submission! The first thing that draws my eyes is those horribly sexy lips and that rugged jaw Channing has. LOVE IT!!!

If you have a favorite picture from this blog, our photo gallery, or a picture that you have found on the net that you would like us to consider, send the picture or a link to the picture to potw@channingtatumunwrapped.com and tell us why you like it. We will post it and your explanation on the blog. If you like or don’t like the picture (for some completely insane reason), let us know that too.

Channing Tatum’s Movie Stop-Loss Declared a Top 2007 War Movie

DID YOU KNOW?…Here are photos of Channing Tatum and Ryan Phillippe filming their upcoming, highly-anticipated Iraq war movie, Stop-Loss (aka the Untitled Kimberly Peirce Project), which will release later in the year. It seems that the war is an extremely popular topic this year in movies, so Channing’s movie has a lot of competition.

Although Stop-Loss has not been reviewed yet on the site, it is currently ranked #21 out of #35 on TopTenReviews.com’s Top 2007 War Movies. Once the site’s critics are able to add their reviews later this year, I think it will definitely move even higher in the rankings.

Hopefully the production company will put up their official site soon so we can learn even more about the movie. Stay tuned to Channing Tatum Unwrapped and I will let you know when the official site does launch.

Channing Tatum’s Movie She’s the Man…Around the World

Here is a poster from Channing Tatum’s 2006 movie She’s the Man. To commemorate the afore-mentioned Germany DVD release of Channing Tatum and Amanda Bynes’ 2006 comedy She’s the Man, I thought I would give you another edition of Around the World where you can learn a little more about one of Channing’s movies in various countries all over the world.

Although you may know that the working titles for the US-based movie She’s the Man were ‘Dude Looks Like a Lady’ and ‘Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man’, you may not know what the movie was actually called in other countries.

She’s the Man is Also Known As…

Una Chica en apuros	Argentina / Venezuela
Diafora stithous	Greece
Ella es el chico	Spain
L’ Homme c’est elle	Canada (French title)
She’s the Man - Voll mein Typ	Germany
Она мужчина	Russia (Thanks Natalie!)

Official She’s the Man Sites Around the World

Holland: http://www.shestheman.nl Russia: http://www.shestheman.ru Taiwan: http://shestheman.cmcmovie.com USA: http://www.shestheman-themovie.com

NEWS FLASH: She’s the Man German DVD Release Date

Here is the German DVD cover of Channing’ movie She’s the Man.

I just wanted to let my German readers know that Channing Tatum and Amanda Bynes’ hilarious movie She’s the Man will release on DVD in German on April 13, 2007.

Click here to learn more about the movie and to see some of Channing’s great scenes.

Channing Tatum Pictures of the Week

Each week Channing Tatum Unwrapped will post one or more of our favorite pictures of the uber hot Channing Tatum.

Here is a perfectly chiseled photo of Channing Tatum modeling in his undies (i.e. no shirt, no pants) a few years ago. Yep. Enough said. I figure you’re too busy staring at the photo anyway.

If you have a favorite picture that you would like us to consider, send the picture to potw@channingtatumunwrapped.com and tell us why you like it. We will post it and your explanation on the blog. If you like or don’t like the picture (for some completely insane reason), let us know that too.

Do You Want to Undress Channing Tatum?

DID YOU KNOW?…OK get your mind out of the gutter. For all of you budding stylists out there, here is your chance to dress the uber sexy and extremely stylish Channing Tatum. Stardoll.com recently added a Channing Tatum paper doll that you can dress (or not dress as the case may be) however you want.

It’s not your mom’s old paper dolls. It’s the new high-tech, socially-networked paper doll for generation Y’ers like you and me. Stardoll is a paper doll dress-up community site. You can create your own doll or choose from their collection of celebrity dolls and dress them up in their virtual fashions. Channing’s celebrity doll has a wardrobe full of unique clothes and outfits.

I went to the Channing Tatum Unwrapped photo gallery, found one of my favorite pictures and created the paper doll version of Channing arriving with Jenna at Rande Gerber’s Stone Rose Lounge at the Sofitel LA Hotel on June 21, 2006. You can see the results in the picture at the top of this blog entry.

If you make a paper doll and email a link to fans@channingtatumunwrapped.com, I will post it on the blog for you to share with other readers. If you used a photo as your inspiration, feel free to also send me a link to the photo you used to create the paper doll.

Here is my all-time favorite paper doll of Channing:

It is my homage to what he may have looked like arriving on the blue carpet at the Spirit Awards if he had dressed like he said he wanted to (i.e. in his skivvies). No matter what outfit I put on him, I always seem to come back to this one in just his undies. Hmmmm. Go figure.

Channing Tatum Pictures of the Week: Fabulous Fan Photo Submission

Each week Channing Tatum Unwrapped will post one or more of our favorite pictures of the uber hot Channing Tatum.

Here is another great Picture of the Week from Channing’s 2006 dance movie Step Up submitted by Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Tamirra T. (sister of the last POWT submitter, Tierra T.).

Here is what Tamirra has to say about the movie still of Channing playing Tyler Gage:

I LOVE THIS PICTURE BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT HE IS THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING AND I LOVE SMART GUYS. HE LOOKS CUTE LIKE ALWAYS ,LIKE ON STEP UP AND SHE’S THE MAN. I LOVE THIS PICTURE AND MY SISTER TIERRA T. AND I LOVE HIM BOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE TAMIRRA T.

Thanks Tamirra for your photo submission! This picture shows that smart can be incrediblely sexy too! I loved this scene in Step Up when Tyler (Channing) visits a dance class that Nora (Jenna) is teaching and lovingly watches her teach the cute little girls ballet.

If you have a favorite picture from this blog, our photo gallery, or a picture that you have found on the net that you would like us to consider, send the picture or a link to the picture to potw@channingtatumunwrapped.com and tell us why you like it. We will post it and your explanation on the blog. If you like or don’t like the picture (for some completely insane reason), let us know that too.

The Lost Channing Tatum Interview: 2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards

OK maybe this Channing Tatum interview I just found hidden on Film Independent’s website that is broken up into three separate questions was not totally lost…I mean, I’m sure someone knew where it was.

I thought I combed their site for anything and everything Channing last month and I did not find the videos then. Not that it’s important, I just think they might have been added them after the February awards show where Channing was nominated for Best Supporting Male Actor for his ground-breaking role as Antonio in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. (Click here to see the results and pictures of Channing and girlfriend Jenna from the recent show.)

CTU NEWS: Channing Tatum’s TV Schedule in the US and the UK

To help fans see as much of Channing Tatum’s movies and shows as they can, each week we post the dates, times, and channels of upcoming airings on TV in the US and the UK. This week you can try to catch Channing’s movies She’s the Man in the US and Supercross and Coach Carter in the UK.

Next US TV Airings:

Wed. Mar. 28

12:10 PM

MAX

She’s the Man

Supercross (Film)

Starting: 14:30 on Saturday 31st March. Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Showing on British Eurosport2.

Coach Carter (Film)

Starting: 22:20 on Thursday 29th March. Duration: 2 hours and 15 minutes
Showing on Sky Movies 3.

Coach Carter (Film)

Starting: 22:45 on Monday 2nd April. Duration: 2 hours and 11 minutes
Showing on Sky Movies 7.

Want to know more Channing Tatum movies and TV shows that will be playing in the US and the UK? Click here to get dates, times, and channels.

CTU NEWS: New Channing Tatum Unwrapped Tool for Fans

Just wanted to let you know that in addition to Channing Tatum Unwrapped’s RSS feed that will alert you as soon as we post new articles each day, we now also have a mailing list that you can join to get each day’s articles emailed directly to you. Click here to quickly sign up for the new mailing list.

Not ready to sign up today? No worries. The Email and RSS sign up links can also be found on the right side of the blog with all of the other fans tools and you may have noticed that I have already started putting links at the bottom of each blog post.

New Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Interview in Japan Times: Dust Off the Dancing Shoes

Here is a great new picture and interview I found in today’s Japan Times of Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan promoting their successful and popular dance movie Step Up. Channing and Jenna look so beautiful! Here is the article:

By KAORI SHOJI

If nothing else, “Step Up” is a great inducement to hit the gym. Or the barre. And the yoga mat. Anything in fact, to tighten those upper body muscles and get those abs to pop out.

Directed by Hollywood choreographer Anne Fletcher (her work includes “Boogie Nights” and “Cheers!”) “Step Up” is a dance movie through and through, i.e. a triumph of physical exertion over content. On the other hand, with incredibly aligned bodies plus a lot of great lycra products (and you’ll see a lot of those) who really needs substance? OK, substance is important, but there are times in life when all you want to do is sit back and guffaw over something like “Step Up” — remembering fragments of dance lessons past, or those days when you danced till dawn before shakily making it back home to crash fully-clothes onto the bed.

“Dancers have a tough time,” says lead actress Jenna Dewan during a promotional trip to Tokyo. Dewan plays Nora, a performance-arts student who is desperate to become a dance pro after graduation. “They’re treated pretty badly for incredible amounts of hard work, and even if they do become successful, there’s no guarantee that injuries or bad luck or any number of things will pull them down.”

In the United States, young dancers — even if they get a contract with a dance company, will find it hard to make ends meet for at least five years, explains Dewan. She herself had been dancing since the age of 12 and got her break dancing on MTV and, later, movies.

“I just hope more dance movies get made so there will be more opportunities for all of us,” she says.

Is it difficult for her to combine acting with her craft? “On set, acting is a challenge. Dancing is the comfort zone.”

Lead actor Channing Tatum, who plays Nora’s dancing partner Tyler, says he feels the same way. “With dancing, I get the feeling I know what I’m doing, even though I’m less experienced than Jenna. I got this part through an audition, and I know I’m not the best dancer there is, but there was a good chemistry going between me and everything about this movie.” All of that shows in the movie; though Nora and Tyler find it difficult to be articulate, they never have trouble communicating through dance.

Tyler is a kid from the wrong side of the tracks in downtown Baltimore, coming from a foster home and hanging out/stealing cars with the brothers from the ‘hood. When they break into the famed Maryland School of Arts and trash some theater costumes, Tyler is sentenced to doing janitorial work there as a community service penance. In the school, he meets the classy Nora, a suburban princess who devotes most of her waking hours to practicing. She sees Tyler can dance the one time he goofs off work to do a few steps in the schoolyard, and she asks him to practice with her when her partner sprains his ankle.

The scenes where they work together in the school studio are the adrenaline-generators in this movie; nothing else matches the genuine, incredible energy and sheer elation that emanates from the screen. Surprisingly, Nora wears high heels throughout these scenes, which is something one rarely sees in dance movies.

“Wearing heels to dance is potentially dangerous,” admits Dewan. “It’s my height, I’m too short so I’ve gotten used to dancing and practicing in heels. For years my feet were always calloused and bloody. But feet adjust, like everything else in the body.”

In the story, Nora is so dedicated to her art that she winds up alienating her mother and even Tyler is temporarily put off by her single-mindedness. “Dancing is very, very demanding” says Dewan. “So I know how Nora feels though I think I’m a lot more relaxed than she is.”

Apart from the dancing, “Step Up” is about class. Tyler, whose friends are all black and who dances hip-hop as easily and gracefully as if the moves had been injected into his DNA, has the typical outlook born of a no-hope existence. Unambitious and apathetic, his goal is to keep his goals murky and undefined. (”Why hope for something you can’t have?”)

Nora lives in a brownstone house crammed with gleaming mahogany furniture and is bored to death by the silent, te^te-a-te^te dinners she has with her manicured mother. She wants out, and thinks professional dancing will provide the escape route. Tyler can’t envisage the future and is content to drift from day to day. Neither of the pair are happy in their current situations but when they try to talk about it with each other, issues of money, privilege and class get in the way. Director Fletcher, however, makes no attempt to pursue or develop these themes, and prefers instead to have them work out their differences on the dance floor.

In dance movies, good resources, like genuine acting talent, are often sacrificed at the altar of choreography. In this one, the waste is Rachel Griffiths, who appears as the school principal. With very little to do except dispense some worldly wisdom with a tight little smile, former wild-child Griffiths seems practically lobotomized in the midst of all that movement. You begin to wish she’d rip off her pants suit, whip on some leotards and start dancing, which based on her past performances you just know she’s more than capable of doing.

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Channing Tatum Pictures of the Week: Fabulous Fan Photo Submission

Each week Channing Tatum Unwrapped will post one or more of our favorite pictures of the uber hot Channing Tatum.

Here is a great Picture of the Week submitted by Fabulous Channing Tatum Fan Tierra T.. Here is what Tierra has to say about the movie still of Channing playing Jason Lyle in his 2005 successful movie Coach Carter:

I LOVE THIS PICTURE BECAUSE IT SHOWS CHANNING’S BAD SIDE. I THINK THAT HE JUIST LOOKS SO CUTE IN THIS PICTURE FROM ALL THE REST I HAVE SEEN. I LOVE THIS PICTURE AND I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE TIERRA T.

Thanks Tierra for sending in the photo! Although women say they want a nice guy, it’s the bad boy that gets us every time. In Channing’s case, good or bad, he has everyone of us happily wrapped around his little finger.

If you have a favorite picture from this blog, our photo gallery, or a picture that you have found on the net that you would like us to consider, send the picture or a link to the picture to potw@channingtatumunwrapped.com and tell us why you like it. We will post it and your explanation on the blog. If you like or don’t like the picture (for some completely insane reason), let us know that too.

Exclusive Dito Montiel Interview on CHUD Praising Channing Tatum’s Talents

In case you missed the Google News article on the right side of the blog, I thought I would point out that the recent exclusive interview of the A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints writer and director Dito Montiel at Cinematic Happenings Under Development (aka CHUD). Here is a snippet from the article where CHUD and Dito both praise Channing for his performance:

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was one of the biggest film surprises I got last year. Based loosely on writer/director Dito Montiel’s own experiences growing up in ethnically mixed Astoria, Queens in the 1980s, the movie is a perfectly evocative glimpse at a New York City now lost to history. But like all the best stories, its specificity makes it weirdly universal, and the lives and tribulations of Dito (Shia LaBeouf), Laurie (Melonie Diaz) and hot-headed Antonio (Channing Tatum in a performance that should get him out of sappy romances soon, God willing) will be familiar to everyone. The movie is now out on DVD, where Dito gives a revealing commentary…I can’t recommend it enough – it’s going to go down in the history of the ‘boys growing up’ genre alongside Stand By Me and Breaking Away I had a chance to talk to Dito recently, and he had some really fascinating things to say about the factual truth of movies versus the emotional truth of movies.

You had such a great cast – not just the adults, the kids are fantastic. What’s it like working with the younger actors? And how about Channing Tatum – he’s so amazing in this film.

I kept coming to New York and doing open calls because I love movies like City of God or Raising Victor Vargas, where you don’t know anyone. I went to Coney Island and Manhattan, anywhere I could. I put fliers up, I put an ad on Craigslist and it was like American Idol – three thousand kids showed up in the pouring rain. You get mothers showing up with 13 year old girls saying, ‘She looks 18,’ and they don’t even know who I am! We’re at some weird music rehearsal place in Queens and she’s offering this 13 year old girl – are you nuts? But it’s full of that, it’s crazy. One girl I found on a train, Julia Garro, who plays Diane. I saw her and I walked over and said, ‘Listen, I know I sound like a real creep, but I think you would be good. I’m going to give you a number and have your mom call me.’ Luckily she did.

With Channing it was really strange, and it epitomizes what you asked before, about the truth and all that. When Channing showed up, I thought, no way, man. He was from Alabama, blond hair, blue eyes – a male model! The character I wrote was a short, wiry, impossible to love kid from Naples. They couldn’t physically be more opposite. But we hung around, and something about the role appealed to him and struck a nerve in his personal world. He brought this Of Mice and Men thing to it, which wasn’t my intention, this Lenny ‘I broke your neck but I didn’t mean to and I’ll fix you now’ thing. When I saw that it was strange – it reminded me of the kid I wrote about. He would break your neck, but didn’t want to. Same truth, but a different angle.

Channing Tatum’s Nylon Magazine Interview and Photoshoot

Although Channing may have missed his first scheduled interview with Nylon magazine and was 25 minutes late to his second interview, the Alabama-born, Tampa, Florida-raised actor with the heart-of-gold tough guy persona managed to charm the proverbial pants off the interviewer.

Don’t act like you’re surprised…he could show up 25 DAYS late for a scheduled interview with me and I would not only wait to make sure I did not miss him, I wouldn’t even ask where he’d been.

I am quite certain that looks like the one in the picture you see here have gotten Channing out of a snafu or two over his lifetime.

Click on the image below to read the interview:

Here is an image of the entire Nylon Magazine article and some enlarged photos of Channing from the magazine photoshoot:

Channing Tatum’s Movie A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Releases on DVD in Australia Today

I just wanted to remind all of my Australian readers that Channing Tatum’s award-winning and highly recommended movie A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is released on DVD today in your country.

Channing’s performance in this movie is a huge reason why he has been awarded his two newest lead roles where he will be playing an undercover cop in a movie about the sport of Le Parkour and the most recently announced project ‘Dear John’ based on the Nicholas Sparks bestseller where he will play a soldier in the romantic film.

Run out and rent or buy your copy today! You will not be disappointed.

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