Current:Home > ScamsJonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ lands theatrical release for early 2025-Angel Dreamer Wealth Society D1 Reviews & Insights
Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ lands theatrical release for early 2025
View Date:2024-12-23 20:39:32
NEW YORK (AP) — The Jonathan Majors -starring bodybuilder drama “Magazine Dreams” has been acquired for theatrical release after it was dropped following Majors’ conviction for assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Briarcliff Entertainment has picked up distribution rights to the film, its chief executive, Tom Ortenberg confirmed Wednesday. Ortenberg said in an email that Briarcliff is planning a “robust” theatrical release in the first quarter of 2025. Deadline first reported the acquisition.
Before Majors’ conviction, “Magazine Dreams” had been a critical hit at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023. Searchlight Pictures had set a release for later in the year, with widespread expectations that it could land Majors his first Oscar nomination.
But that changed after a confrontation in March 2023 led to Majors arrest. Majors’ former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, accused him of attacking her in the backseat of a chauffeured car, saying he hit her head with his open hand, twisted her arm behind her back and squeezed her middle finger until it fractured.
Majors maintained he was innocent. But in December, Majors was found guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge and one harassment violation.
Within hours of that decision, Marvel Studios dropped Majors from the role of Kang the Conqueror, which was to have been a focal point in its films and TV series for years to come. In January 2024, Searchlight — which, like Marvel, is owned by the Walt Disney Co. — returned its distribution rights to “Magazine Dreams” to the film’s producers.
In April this year, Majors was ordered to complete a yearlong counseling program but avoided jail time. In sentencing Majors, Judge Michael Gaffey noted both sides in the case agreed the charges didn’t warrant jail time and that Majors had no prior criminal record.
In writer-director Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams,” Majors plays a lonely, aspiring bodybuilder prone to eruptions of rage, carrying wounds from a life filled with pain.
Briarcliff is also the distributor of one of 2024’s most controversial films, the upcoming Donald Trump dramatization “The Apprentice.”
veryGood! (82941)
Related
- Jelly Roll goes to jail (for the best reason) ahead of Indianapolis concert
- Outdated headline sparks vicious online hate campaign directed at Las Vegas newspaper
- A Danish artist submitted blank frames as artwork. Now, he has to repay the museum
- Biden administration announces $600M to produce COVID tests and will reopen website to order them
- A list of mass killings in the United States this year
- A man shot by police while firing a rifle to celebrate a new gun law has been arrested, police say
- Megan Fox Shares the Secrets to Chemistry With Costars Jason Statham, 50 Cent and UFC’s Randy Couture
- South Korean leader warns Russia against weapons collaboration with the North
- Giuliani’s lawyers after $148M defamation judgment seek to withdraw from his case
- Halsey Moves on From Alev Aydin With Victorious Actor Avan Jogia
Ranking
- Contained, extinguished and mopping up: Here’s what some common wildfire terms mean
- Swarm of bees in potting soil attack, kill 59-year-old Kentucky man, coroner says
- Tenor Stephen Gould dies at age 61 after being diagnosed with bile duct cancer
- White supremacist pleads guilty to threatening jurors, witnesses in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial
- Stock market today: Asian shares mostly decline, shrugging off Wall Street’s overnight rally
- White supremacist pleads guilty to threatening jurors, witnesses in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial
- Cabbage Patch Kids Documentary Uncovers Dark Side of Beloved Children's Toy
- In Kentucky governor’s race, Democrat presses the case on GOP challenger’s abortion stance
Recommendation
-
Father sought in Amber Alert killed by officer, daughter unharmed after police chase in Ohio
-
'Super Models' doc reveals disdain for Crawford's mole, Evangelista's ‘deep depression’
-
There have been attempts to censor more than 1,900 library book titles so far in 2023
-
For many displaced by clashes in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian camp, return is not an option
-
Taylor Swift gifts 7-year-old '22' hat after promising to meet her when she was a baby
-
Fan who died after Patriots game had 'medical issue', not traumatic injuries, autopsy shows
-
The suspect in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy is set to appear in court
-
4 firefighters heading home after battling B.C. wildfires die in vehicle crash in Canada