“Magic Mike” mania hits Entertainment Weekly!

I sure hope Magic Mike is a good movie because it could be god-awful and I’m still going to go see it.

You think I’m gonna miss out on the chance to see Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello and Alex Pettyfer playing male strippers and wearing next to nothing on the big screen?

There’s no way!

Entertainment Weekly is featuring much of the hunky cast on the cover of next week’s issue even though the film isn’t due out for another month.

Tatum is on the cover alone but when you open the flaps of the cover, he is accompanied by the drop-dead gorgeous trio of McConaughey, Manganiello and Bomer.

EW reports that it “brought the group back together for a wet and wild photo shoot followed by a rowdy, booze-soaked dinner, where the costars swapped their best stories about acting, waxing, and baring (nearly) everything in their new film. ”Actors, generally, if we finish our scenes early one day, we go home. It wasn’t like that on this set. Especially during the dances—we were there cheering everybody on,” says Tatum, who was there when a frenzied group of extras accidentally ripped off McConaughey’s thong during a dance number. “It was a collection of women being like, ‘I have to tip him,’ and then the weight of all the dollar bills in their hands just took [his thong] off,” Tatum recalls, laughing. Consummate actor that he is, McConaughey didn’t even break character. “I stayed in sequence,” he says proudly. “I went for the tuck. [Mimes covering his manhood] I went for the roll. [Mimes doing a forward roll] And I finished the dance.”