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“Magazine Dreams” by Jonathan Majors will hit theaters in early 2025
NEW YORK (AP) – Jonathan Majors Bodybuilding drama “Magazine Dreams” featuring bodybuilders has been acquired for theatrical release after it was withdrawn following Majors’ conviction for assaulting an ex-girlfriend.
Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to the film, CEO Tom Ortenberg confirmed Wednesday. Ortenberg said in an email that Briarcliff is planning a “solid” theatrical release in the primary quarter of 2025. Deadline first reported the acquisition.
Before Majors’ conviction, there was Magazine Dreams. a critical hit on the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023. Searchlight Pictures has scheduled a release for later in the 12 months, with widespread expectations this might earn Majors his first Oscar nomination.
However, this modified after the confrontation in March 2023 led to the arrest of the most important. Majors’ ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, accused him of assaulting her in the backseat of a chauffeured automobile, alleging that he struck her in the pinnacle with an open hand, twisted her arm behind her back and squeezed her middle finger until it broke.
Majors maintained his innocence. But in December The major was found guilty one count of assault and one count of harassment violation.
Within hours of this decision, Marvel Studios fired Majors from the role of Kang the Conqueror, which was to be retained the focus of their movies and TV series for the approaching years. In January 2024, Searchlight – which, like Marvel, is owned by Walt Disney Co. – returned the distribution rights to “Magazine Dreams” to the film’s producers.
In April of this 12 months, Majors was ordered to finish a a year-long counseling program but avoided prison time. In sentencing Majors, Judge Michael Gaffey noted that each side in the case agreed that the fees didn’t justify a jail sentence and that Majors had no prior convictions.
In writer-director Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams,” Majors plays a lonely, aspiring bodybuilder who’s susceptible to outbursts of rage and carries the injuries of a lifetime of pain.
Briarcliff can also be the distributor of one of the crucial controversial movies of 2024, titled Donald Trump’s upcoming drama “The Apprentice.”