Jonathan Majors' Film 'Magazine Dreams' Set to Release After Being Shelved

Magazine Dreams, starring Jonathan Majors, will shortly be released in theaters.

The original distributor, Searchlight, suspended the project in January after Majors was found guilty of assault and harassment involving his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
Briarcliff is the film's new distributor, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which published the news on Wednesday. The bodybuilding drama is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2025.
Elijah Bynum wrote and directed the film, in which Majors plays amateur bodybuilder Killian Maddox.

Before Majors' legal difficulties, Magazine Dreams was a fan favorite at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The bodybuilding drama won Sundance's artistic vision jury prize.

It was supposed to open in theaters on December 8, 2023, just days before Majors' trial began in New York City.

However, Disney's Searchlight returned it to producers Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy, Jeffrey Soros, and Simon Horsman to shop around.

Briarcliff, the new distributor, is also the business behind the controversial film The Apprentice about Donald Trump, which will be released later this month. It was taken up because no major Hollywood studio wanted to release the biopic starring Sebastian Stan.

Following his sentence, Majors was replaced as the villain Kang the Conqueror in Marvel and Disney's 2026 film Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. He initially played the role in the Disney+ series Loki. Lionsgate also canceled Dennis Rodman's biopic, 48 Hours in Vegas, before production began.