“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?” Ike Evans risks everything in a life and death battle to rid his Miramar Playa Hotel of the mob and Ben “The Butcher” Diamond. Even if Ike’s long-shot gamble to take back his hotel succeeds, will the price […]
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Two Cool Teases for Magic City: Season Two!
Starz’s Magic City exudes an effortless cool. Above and following the jump: two mentholated teases for season two, premiering on July 14th.
Rap Icon Rick Ross Cast in Season 2 of Magic City!
Starz’s Magic City welcomes Rick Ross to its cast. He will play Butterball – the owner of an illegal Cuban-American gambling house (known as a bolita) in Miami. Details follow the jump – along with an extended trailer for the show’s second season (which should carry a language warning – there are multiple f-bombs!).
Mitch Glazer And Jeffrey Dean Morgan Set Miami Ablaze With Magic City!
Magic City [Starz, Fridays, 10/9C] is about a specific time in the history of Miami, Florida. New Year’s Eve of 1958 found the city about to hit a period of ferocious growth – what with Castro’s Cuban revolution forcing thousands of Cubans to flee for lives, most winding up in Miami. Soon, and for largely […]
Magic Blooms Over Miami In Magic City Premiere!
After the sex, violence and political intrigue of Ancient Rome in Starz’ Spartacus series, it seems odd, yet somehow appropriate to find the same ingredients put to more nuanced use in the network’s Magic City [Fridays, 10/9C] – a series about hotelier Ike Evans and his family and their efforts to bring the magic with […]
Starz Renews Magic City Before Series Premieres!
It hasn’t even premiered yet, but Starz has given Magic City a second season. The series, which revolves around the most luxurious hotel/casino in Miami as the fifties ended, stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Ike Morgan, [Supernatural, Grey’s Anatomy, Watchmen] the hotel’s owner; Olga Kurylenko [Hitman, Quantum of Solace] as Ike’s wife, Vera, and Danny […]
First Look: Starz’s Vegas-in-the-‘50s Series – Magic City
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Olga Kurylenko star in Starz’s gangster drama, Magic City – set in the Las Vegas of the ‘50s. Magic City was written and created by Mitch Glazer and is scheduled for Spring 2012 debut. Follow the jump for a series synopsis and a teaser trailer for the show.
Starz Finds The Magic: Greenlights Magic City!
From Torchwood’s science-fiction set in the present, to Spartacus: Gods of the Arena’s gladiatorial glory in ancient Rome, Starz has shown itself to be open original programming with a more mature bent. Now, Starz is going to one of America’s most glamorous cities – at a time when it was at its peak – Miami! […]