The Jonathan Majors led film Magazine Dreams will soon be coming to theaters.
Searchlight, the original distributor, shelved the project in January after Majors was convicted of assault and harassment involving his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
The film’s new distributor is Briarcliff, according to a Wednesday report by The Hollywood Reporter. The plan is for the bodybuilding drama to be released in the first quarter of 2025.
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In the film, which was written and directed by Elijah Bynum, Majors stars as amateur bodybuilder Killian Maddox.
Before Majors’ legal troubles, Magazine Dreams was one of the favorites from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The bodybuilding drama won the creative vision jury prize at Sundance.
It had been scheduled to arrive in theaters on Dec. 8, 2023, just days before Majors’ trial got underway in New York City.
But Disney’s Searchlight returned it to producers Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy, Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman to shop around.
New distributor Briarcliff is the same company that will be releasing a controversial film about Donald Trump titled The Apprentice later this month. It was picked up after no major Hollywood Studio wanted to release the Sebastian Stan-led biopic.
Following his conviction, Majors was dropped as the villain Kang the Conqueror for Marvel and Disney’s 2026 film, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. He first debuted the role in the Disney+ series Loki. Lionsgate also dropped his Dennis Rodman biopic, 48 Hour in Vegas before production started.
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