FAN ENCOUNTER: A Fan’s Starry Night with Channing Tatum at Hemingways in Toronto
August 28, 2010
A little over a week ago Channing Tatum flew out of LAX en route to Toronto to begin working on his romantic drama ‘The Vow‘. Soon after hitting the town, Chan was spotted leaving Toronto’s Hemingways restaurant and in the Yorkville area taking pics and signing autographs for fans.
In today’s exclusive fan encounter, we have pics of Chan with fan Dafina Karadjova and her friends inside Hemingways. Here’s what Dafina had to say about their encounter with the notoriously fan-friendly actor/producer…
A STARRY NIGHT at HEMINGWAYS…It was Friday August 20th, and a bunch of us decided to have a night out. It was our first time going to Hemingways , which is a really nice bar in Yorkville. As we were sitting at the bar , my friend turned to us and said ” Guys, isn’t that Channing Tatum? ” It totally was !! He walked over with a friend and took a seat at the bar right next to us. We were all so excited that we spotted him and we just had to take a picture with him. He was very nice and totally charming! It was definitely the highlight of our night! - Dafina Karadjova
You guys can check out another pic Dafina took of Chan at Hemingways below…
Chan’s movie The Vow‘ is scheduled to film in and around Toronto until October 22, 2010, so I encourage you guys to keep sending me your great fan encounters!
Big thanks to Dafina for sending me the photos and info! If you happen to run into Chan or Jenna, send your photos and fan encounter stories to fanencounters@channingtatumunwrapped.com. I will post them on the blog to share with envious fans all around the globe! 
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FAN ENCOUNTER: Channing Tatum Hanging with Fans in Toronto
August 24, 2010
I have to admit. It didn’t take very long. Channing Tatum just arrived in Toronto a few days ago to start working on pre-production for his romantic drama ‘The Vow,’ and we already have our first fan encounter. Here’s what fan @MrWillW had to say about running into Chan on the streets of Toronto…
Temperatures sure have been dipping in Toronto of late, but things just suddenly got a little lot hotter. Alabama-born Channing Tatum arrived in Toronto last night to prepare for his role in Michael Sucsy’s next film The Vow, in which he stars alongside Canada’s sweetheart Rachel McAdams…Tatum was all smiles, coming over to say “hi” and pose for a few photos, before heading off to a work-related meeting. He was engaged in a conversation on his Bluetooth Headpiece, but had the courtesy of ending the conversation before coming over, telling his friend that he’d catch up later. He even asked a small group of fans to make sure their photos turned out before heading off. Aww.
You guys can check out a few more new pics that @MrWillW took of Chan during two different encounters below…
@MrWillW, who also happens to be a local entertainment reporter, says that ‘The Vow‘ is scheduled to film in and around Toronto until October 22, 2010, so I hope this is the first of many fan-friendly encounters I get to share with you guys!
Big thanks to @MrWillW for sending me the photos and info! If you happen to run into Chan or Jenna, send your photos and fan encounter stories to fanencounters@channingtatumunwrapped.com. I will post them on the blog to share with envious fans all around the globe!
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CTU HOW-TO: Sending Fan Mail to Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum
August 15, 2010
Fabulous fan Hanna sent Chan and Jenna the wonderful fan letter below, and I love the fact that Jenna showed her gratitude by replying to Hanna on Twitter…
Hanna’s fan letter really had legs. In addition to all of the retweets by fans who loved the letter on Chan and Jenna’s Twitter accounts, The Daily Beast also picked it as one of the “Best Celebrity TwitPics of the Week”!
You guys often ask how to send Chan and Jenna fan mail and more importantly, do they read it? Since Jenna has so eloquently answered the latter part of that question, I thought I could help with the first. Below you will find the fan mail addresses where you can send letters, autograph requests, and anything else you want to give Chan and Jenna…
Management 360
9111 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
c/o Joanne Wiles - International Creative Management (ICM) 10250 Constellation Blvd.
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
You can also find the fan mail addresses above in the “Fan Club” menu in the navigation at the top of each page here on CTU.
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FAN ENCOUNTERS: Chan and Jenna Hanging Out with Fans at “Rent”
August 8, 2010
Channing Tatum and wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum had a a lot of fun last night when they went to see the play “Rent” at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Today’s Fab Fan Encounters feature some great pics that fans Lauren Elizabeth, Julie (who sat next to them), and Candace took with the couple before, during, and after the event. After meeting Chan and Jenna, Lauren tweeted…
Still stoked I met @channingtatum @jennaldewan. You’re such BEAUTIFUL people inside and out, it’s so refreshing!!
Check out all their awesome, new pics below…
Big thanks to Julie, Lauren Elizabeth, and Candace for tweeting the photos! If you happen to run into Chan or Jenna, send your photos and fan encounter stories to fanencounters@channingtatumunwrapped.com. I will post them on the blog to share with envious fans all around the globe!
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FAN ENCOUNTERS: Channing Tatum Hanging Out with Fans on the Set and Overseas
May 28, 2010
Channing Tatum finished filming his crime drama ‘Son of No One‘ in New York City earlier this month. From day one of filming on April 5th fans have been really great about sending me photos and fan encounters from set. On today’s post in the CTU Photo Gallery, we have over 40 new pics that you guys were able to get with the notoriously fan-friendly star as he filmed all over Queens in April and May.
Below, you all can read about two fan’s recent encounters…the first, from fan Heather on the ‘Son of No One‘ set in New York last month and the second, a chance meeting with fan Brooke in Barcelona (where Chan filmed Steven Soderbergh’s action-revenge spy thriller ‘Knockout‘ earlier this year)…
“Hello guys! I just wanted to be able to share my story and photographs from my Encounter with Chan. I’ve been a fan of Channing Tatum for a LONG time. I think the first movie I saw him in was in Havoc with Anne Hathaway…Later, I saw She’s the Man and Step Up which made me “fall in love” with him even more…
…I got to the set at 10:30 AM and felt extremely awkward because my friend and I were the only ones there at the time and Channing was no where to be found since they were filming inside a house. A lot of the crew members were giving us weird looks and I was extremely intimidated. I went to my car to go tell my ride that maybe we should just leave and then I turned me head to see Channing hopping into a car. I was in awe. I looked at my friend and ride and said “Holy Lord, I swear to God that I just saw Chan just get in that car!” They didn’t believe me so my friend and I went for a walk to try and find the trailers to see if Channing was there. I didn’t see anyone in the area of the trailers so we went walking back up to the set. As we were walking, the car that Channing had gotten into drove past me. I looked into the car, and Chan smiled at me. I tried to catch up with it but by the time I got to the house, he had already gone inside.
To make this long and amazing story short, I saw Channing get into his car and go to the trailers once more and decided to stand outside the trailer in any attempt of at least speaking him since it was getting late, and it was extremely hot out. Around 3:15, Channing finally did come out of the trailer and socialized with his fans. I talked to him briefly but he introduced himself and thanked me for waiting for such a long time. I am glad to say that after 5 hours of waiting, my dream came true; I went home with a ton of pictures, a full heart, a mean sunburn (not one of the greater parts of the day), and bragging rights…The experience was fantastic and I thank Chan a million times for making my wildest dreams come true!”
Thanks again,
Heather (@x0heathercee0x)
Here’s a new video showing fans and Chan during one of the many set encounters…
The next fan encounter was originally posted on HitRecord.org by BrookieMcG. It was then re-posted on PostTheLove.com and sent to me by CTU reader Vanessa…
“Ah Channing Tatum! On the last day of our trip, we had to meet up at the Hard Rock Cafe, Barcelona. While waiting in the lobby with a few of my friends, I happened to see him standing next to us. I have met a few actors in my life and I never would have guessed that he was as sweet as he was. He couldn’t have been any nicer; something that one doesn’t expect while meeting someone like himself. He was very friendly and was curious about why were in Spain and where were from. After he was called for his reservation, he gave me a hug! Definitely the best way to end a trip.”
Thanks to all the fans for submitting your fan encounters! You can also CLICK HERE to check out even more pics from the ‘Son of No One‘ set and CLICK HERE to read a bunch of other fan encounter stories.
If you happen to run into Chan or Jenna, send your photos and fan encounters to fanencounters@channingtatumunwrapped.com. I will post them on the blog to share with envious fans all around the globe!
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FAN ENCOUNTER: Chan Makes Time for Fans on the NYC Set of ‘Son of No One’
April 5, 2010
Channing Tatum started filming his crime thriller ‘Son of No One‘ in Queens, New York today. Reminiscent of the ‘Fighting‘ film set days where fans were running into Chan left and right on the streets of New York…I already have an awesome new fan encounter to share with everyone. As ya’ll may know by now, these are hands down my favorite posts here on CTU, and today’s is no different.
Today’s Fab Fan Encounter is a new photo AND a video of Chan being his usual fan-friendly self near the Queens, New York set of the movie. Here’s @aliceinnyc’s story…
“Channing Tatum!…I’m gonna start this one out with a little story about the first time I met Channing Tatum…There is no picture from the first time I met Channing Tatum because, unfortunately, though we posed for one outside of Regis & Kelly while he was promoting ‘Dear John’… my camera failed. My camera did not do it’s little click and save to the memory card job. So I attempted to get a picture with him the following day at Fallon but the one and only person who got a picture with him at Fallon was my friend Brian. I attempted a third time at the Apple Store in SoHo where he did a Q&A (which is available on iTunes!) with Amanda Seyfried for ‘Dear John’ but that failed too as the crowd was somewhat overwhelming…
Alas there was always hope. I knew his new film ‘Son of No One’ directed by Dito Montiel (go rent A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS right now) also starring Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, and Ray Liotta was scheduled to film in NYC and therefore knew I had another chance coming up soon. As you can see, on their very first day of filming, I had major success.
I met up with my friends around 6:30…About a half hour later I was tweeting my Blackberry battery life away when Carmen starts saying: “That’s Channing. It’s Channing. Oh my God. Lauren, it’s Channing.” I was not paying attention and by the time I looked up Channing, who had walked up the street out of nowhere with zero security or PA’s by his side, is already on the stairs of his trailer and waving at us with a big (adorable) smile. He said something along the lines of, “Hey guys, how are you?” To which Carmen and I both giggled and waved. But thank God for Carmen who quickly followed up with, “Can we take a picture with you?” No. Really. Thank God for Carmen.
Channing, sweet as ever, says: “Yeah! Sure! I just have to get dressed… I’ll be back!” And disappears into his trailer. At this moment I’m telling Carmen that no, he really doesn’t need to get dressed. He could walk outside buck ass naked and that would be a-okay with me. As we continue our giggle fit Channing comes back out within minutes, in the same clothes, and walks back down the street to another trailer (what I’m assuming is the wardrobe trailer) and disappears. Our giggle fit continues. A good ten to fifteen minutes later? Out comes Channing. This time there’s a PA on his tail but the PA is directing him back to the van that would take him back to set but we see him stop, point over at us, say something to the PA, and then come walking over. SERIOUSLY? COOLEST DUDE EVER. Most people - especially actors on a LIVE set - would have seized the opportinity to bolt into the van and never be seen again. Trust me. It’s happened to me. We were nowhere near him… we were two trailers away. He had every right to bounce. But did he? No. Why? Because he is a sweetheart. No one will ever be able to tell me otherwise. Channing Tatum is a very talented, very grateful, very fan-friendly man. My favorite type. (Swoons.)
He walks up to us and says something about how he’s got to get back to set in a few minutes but then proceeds to introduce himself. “Hi, I’m Chan.” He even asked our names and shook our hands. From here on out you’ll notice I will now refer to him as Chan - because that is how Chan introduced himself. To me. I die. This was the moment where the planned speech I had in my head about how much I loved A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, and how excited I was that he was working with Dito Montiel again was supposed to come out but didn’t. So Channing… by some chance in a cold hell you read this? A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is hands down one of my favorite movies ever. You were amazing. And I am so excited that you are working with Dito Montiel again - and with such a fantastic cast! Anyway… we proceeded to take pictures and when it was my turn Carmen held her camera up but I handed her mine and said, “No, I don’t trust your camera.” He laughed. I made Chan laugh. Then Carmen had him sign a picture of Ann which he wrote “Happy Birthday Ann!” on and Carmen got him saying “Happy Birthday love, I love you!” on video before he bolted back to the van waiting for him so he could get back to work.
Incredible. I’m in awe.
If you ever have the chance to meet Channing Tatum… do it. Preferably in a quiet setting where there aren’t any rabid fans, photographers, or autograph sellers.
Thank you Chan!”
Not bad for day one. I can’t wait to get more stories in from fans. BIG thanks to @aliceinnyc and Carmen for the great photos, video, and story!
If you happen to run into Chan or Jenna, send your photos and fan encounter stories to fanencounters@channingtatumunwrapped.com. I will post them on the blog to share with envious fans all around the globe!
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Channing Tatum Wraps Up ‘Dear John’ Press Tour in NYC and Takes Theaters By Storm Across the Country
February 7, 2010
In case you missed it, Variety and tons of other news outlets are reporting that Channing Tatum’s romantic drama ‘Dear John‘ is now officially the first movie to take on Avatar and WIN!
Against all estimates, odds, rain, and what’s being call “the storm of the century” in the North East, Chan’s fans showed up in droves to the sold-out midnight screenings all over the country and packed theaters during the day to help the film reach $13.8 million on Friday. The movie is now projected to make over $30 million for the entire weekend, beating everyone’s original estimates by leaps and bounds.
Regardless of the final weekend number, ‘Dear John‘ has already set records. It’s the highest Friday opening for Screen Gems and is also the highest opening for a Nicholas Sparks adaptation. The last two Sparks films, 2008’s “Nights in Rodanthe” and “The Notebook,” charted opening weekends just north of $13 million, which is what ‘Dear John‘ made on Friday alone.
I couldn’t be happier for Chan and everyone involved with the film. Their hard work is paying off and fans are loving the movie. This kind of success doesn’t come easily and both Chan and his ‘Dear John‘ co-star Amanda Seyfried have been working non-stop to promote the film across the country.
They just wrapped up the New York leg of their ‘Dear John’ press tour yesterday after stops in Fort Bragg, Charleston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, San Fransisco, and Los Angeles.
Below you can check out some of the new photos from fans and the media for this interview-packed stop that included appearances on Regis and Kelly, The Today Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and a fan Q&A with Amanda Seyfried at the Soho Apple Store. Enjoy!!!
Fans can also CLICK HERE to check out a ton more photos from New York City and HERE for the entire ‘Dear John’ press tour in the CTU Photo Gallery.
Here’s what one fan had to say about her fan encounter with Chan outside the Soho Apple Store appearance on Thursday…
- “I went to see Channing Tatum at the Soho Apple Store for the Dear John Q&A. I actually got to meet him on his way in, he was generous enough to pose with fans and chat up a bit. The Q&A was not allowed to be recorded or anything, and will be available on itunes soon. Channing has such an amazing charm that made the Q&A so much more entertaining. I hope to meet him again soon enough! - Chelsea”
Chelsea also sent a couple of videos from that day. You all can watch videos of Chan and Amanda graciously signing autographs for all the fans both inside and outside the packed event…
As Chelsea said, fans were not able to record the Q&A, but I talked with Apple and they are planning on posting an enhanced podcast on iTunes with audio and photos from the event early next week. I’ll let you all know when that’s available for download.
You can also check out videos of Chan from his Fallon, Today Show, and Regis and Kelly appearances (both inside and outside) this past week below. Enjoy!!!
You can CLICK HERE to watch the entire show and see Chan’s first segment with Jimmy.
Thanks to Chelsea for the great fan encounter and videos from the Soho Apple Store event!
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