Description: Magic City is an American drama television series created by Mitch Glazer for the Starz network. The pilot episode previewed on Starz March 30, 2012, and premiered April 6, 2012. Starz renewed the series for an eight-episode second season on March 20, 2012, and canceled it August 5, 2013, after two seasons. Set in 1959 Miami, Florida, shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami Jewish Mob boss Ben Diamond (Danny Huston) to ensure the success of his glitzy establishment. Magic City was created by Miami native Mitch Glazer, who wrote the series around his experiences growing up there: he once worked as a cabana boy in a Miami Beach hotel, his father was an electrical engineer at the city's grand hotels in the late 1950s, and he grew up listening to stories of the exploits of hotel staff and clientele.[23][24] Many of the incidents Glazer relates in the series "are based on stories that happened, that I saw, or older brothers and sisters or my parents told me." As a journalist, he did extensive research on what was happening in the lobbies of hotels in late 1950s and early 1960s: "There’s wiretaps—tapes they’ve made public now—where the CIA gives Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli $300,000 and poison powder to kill [Fidel] Castro in the Boom Boom Room in the Fontainebleau Hotel," he said. Included in the series, Glazer states, will be Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities in Cuba and issues connected to the Civil Rights Movement. He first envisioned Magic City as a feature film, but said he quickly realized he had more stories to tell than would fit in a film. Glazer had written different versions of Magic City for years. He originally wrote and sold it to CBS, who eventually let it go to the Starz network. "CBS was really nice to me and generous in letting it go to Starz. It’s not a procedural, it’s not a franchise. It needs to be allowed to do the sexuality and violence and the things that were part of Miami Beach in the 1959", he said. In 2007, Chris Albrecht (subsequently Starz network's president and C.E.O.) was fired from HBO and joined Glazer and some of his friends for a research expedition to Havana. “It was an insane group," Glazer remembered. "Jimmy Caan and Robert Duvall and Benicio Del Toro." They were visiting a Havana hotel designed by the architect Morris Lapidus when Glazer remarked to Albrecht, "You know, I grew up in this kind of hotel. My father worked with Morris Lapidus on the Fontainebleau Hotel and Eden Roc Hotel as an electrical engineer." In 2009, after Albrecht became president and C.E.O. of Starz, Glazer recalled, "I sent him a script I had written years before, and he called me literally hours later and said, 'This is amazing, let's do this.'"
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Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Rating: MA15+
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MPN: Multi Region Player Required Outside Aust & NZ
Studio: Media Talent Group South Beach Productions & Starz
Format: DVD
Region Code: DVD: 4 (AU, NZ, Latin America...)
Language: English
Release Year: Original release March 30, 2012 – August 9, 2013
Actor: Jeffrey Dean Morgan Olga Kurylenko Steven Strait, Taylor Blackwell Danny Huston, Elena Satine Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Jessica Marais Christian Cooke
Features: Starz Studios: Magic City, The Cars Of Magic City, The Style Of Magic City, Building An Empire, The Golden Age Of Music, Miami Beach: The Real Magic City
Season: Season One, No. of seasons 2 No. of episodes 16 (list of episodes)
Movie/TV Title: Magic City
Music Artist: Daniele Luppi
Video Format: PAL
Sub-Genre: Drama, Period
Director: Executive producers Mitch Glazer Geyer Kosinski, Lawrence Konner (co-exec) Ed Bianchi (co-exec)
Cinematic Movement: Arthouse/Independent, Art/Indie Film, Cult
Edition: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Type: TV Series
Genre: TV Shows
Run Time: 419 Minutes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
