'Magic Mike' Trailer: Stripping Down The Clip

We take a closer look at the teaser for Channing Tatum's upcoming flick.
By Amy Wilkinson

Channing Tatum in "Magic Mike"
Photo: Warner Bros

Hide your kids, hide your husband, and stuff your purse full of $1 bills, because the trailer for Channing Tatum's stripper movie "Magic Mike" has shimmied onto the Web!

The film stars Tatum as an exotic dancer named — what else? — Magic Mike, who takes an up-and-coming young performer named the Kid (Alex Pettyfer) under his tutelage. But, as strippers are wont to do, Mike is hoping for more from life than body oil and G-strings. He hopes to build furniture! And date the Kid's sister!

You'll have to pony up $10 come June 29 to find out if his dreams come true, but in the meantime, check out what else your eagle-eyed experts at MTV found noteworthy in the tawdry trailer:

Channing Tatum's Acrobatics
Co-star Matt Bomer already warned us about Tatum's "sick" moves, and of course we've seen "Step Up" about 20 times, but it's easy to forget how adept the Chan-man is on the dance floor, seeing as he's most frequently cast as an action hero ("G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," "Haywire") or a romantic lead ("Dear John," "The Vow"). All we have to say is, get this guy into toe shoes more often, Hollywood!

Cody Horn Hits the Scene
Tatum's love interest is likely a new face to many a moviegoer. Her name is Cody Horn, and this could be her big, ballsy breakout role. The actress' résumé is largely filled with television credits in series like "Rescue Me" and "The Office." Her next big-screen role is in September's "End of Watch," which also co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick and America Ferrera.

But Where Is Matt Bomer?
Tatum, Pettyfer, Horn and Matthew McConaughey (who plays the strip club's owner) all get good looks in the trailer, but there are several beefy babes missing in action — most notably "White Collar" star Matt Bomer. An appearance (preferably shirtless) by the blue-eyed stunner is at the top of our wish list for trailer #2. "True Blood" star Joe Manganiello's blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance was also much too short. Maybe a little less Mike in the next tease, huh, guys?

Click on our expert video commentary above to hear what else we were cheering and jeering in the trailer!

Check out everything we've got on "Magic Mike."

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Spotify: the iPad app is 'in the works'

It's never a great sign when the first thing you see upon entering a press conference is a giant Coca-Cola logo. iPad and web platform rumors aside, today's Spotify "special announcement" event was all about the soft drink side of things, marking a partnership between the music streaming service and Coke, which involves, at present, some Spotify / Coke apps. The first question from the audience, however, revolved around the rumored tablet version of the service. Spotify founder Daniel Ek acknowledged that it is indeed "in the works," otherwise evading the question, insisting that the event was all about the Coke partnership, to the relief of the two beverage reps who joined him on stage.

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RingCentral Launches New Mobile, Cloud-Based Phone System For Businesses

Cloud-based phone systems provider RingCentral is debuting a new version of its platform that allows businesses to setup, manage and use their phone system from mobile devices. RingCentral, which is backed by Scale Ventures, Cisco, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, DAG Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank, markets an advanced, cloud-based replacement for legacy phone systems in the form of a hosted business phone platform with voice and fax functionality. The platform includes auto-receptionist, multiple voicemail boxes, call routing, business answering rules, extension dialing, call transfers, and integration with Smartphones.

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Tupac Takes Over The Web Through Hologram-Inspired Memes

Holo-Pac parodies place the late rapper in the cast of 'Titanic' and Jem's backup band.
By Kara Klenk

Tupac's hologram performance at Coachella 2012
Photo: AV Concepts

It's been a crazy week for Tupac Shakur, who, despite having passed away in 1996, has been all over the news after his hologram performance at Coachella. The intriguing yet creepy display has sparked plenty of debate and questions about the future of touringand whether holograms disrespect the memory of late music legends.

Never one to miss a viral joke opportunity, the Internet has scooped up Holo-Pac and run with it, resulting in Holo-Pac memes spreading to the far corners of the web.

Trailing the success of other parody accounts such as @AngiesRightLeg and @DarthVader, the Twittersphere welcomed @HologramTupac this week, which impressively garnered more than 30,000 followers in only a few days. @HologramTupac tweets at celebrities and fans alike, often pausing to clarify that he is not a zombie, which apparently has been a point of confusion for some.

Animated GIFs have been popping up everywhere, animating the Shakur hologram into classic movies like Harry Potter , Star Wars, and Titanic . Even more still photos have been Photoshopped to turn Holo-Pac into a member of the Starship Enterprise or, fittingly, of Jem's backup band the Holograms.

Others have taken the meme past the rapper and come up with dream lineups of other deceased stars. A parody Coachella lineup featuring solely hologram acts boasts headliners like Michael Jackson, The Clash and Mozart.

And just when you thought they'd thought of everything, you discover an animated GIF of Tupac as the popular "Haters Gonna Hate" meme. That's right. It's a meme of a meme! Did your head just explode from the meta cleverness of it all?

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Sprint and LG launch Optimus Elite: entry-level specifications, planet-saving hopes

The successor to 2010's Optimus S, LG's readied another low-middleweight smartphone. Main features on the Optimus Elite include Android 2,3, a 3.5-inch screen, an 800MHz processor, NFC and a five-megapixel camera. So there's nothing particularly thrilling, but 50GB of free storage from Box could sweeten the deal for some. Eco-friendly nods include sustainable build materials, with 50 percent made from recycled plastic, with the hazardous likes of mercury, PVC and halogens also nixed from the device. Like other Sprint-LG team-ups toting green credentials, the charger ekes out minimal power when not charging the phone. Planeteers can pick up the Optimus Elite online -- in "Titan" silver and white -- from April 22, priced at $30 on a two-year contract. Sprint will also hand over a $50 reward card for your troubles and LG says the Optimus Elite will eventually arrive, at least in silver, on Virgin Mobile too. For a few more details, you can catch LG and Sprint emoting over Mother Earth in the press release below.

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