Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ Dropped By Searchlight Pictures
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Searchlight Pictures has dropped Jonathan Majors’ Magazine Dreams, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Searchlight Pictures, a film production and distribution arm of Walt Disney Studios, alerted Majors and the Magazine Dreams team that they wouldn’t move forward with the movie in early January. Majors and the filmmakers are now shopping the movie to potential buyers.
Magazine Dreams was met with critical acclaim during its Sundance Film Festival premiere in January 2023. The outlet reports that Searchlight previously purchased the movie for a seven-figure sum. After Majors was arrested in March 2023, plans for the movie stalled. The film production company removed the film from their release calendar in October 2023, just before the start of the Majors’s trial.
The body-building film starred Majors alongside Taylour Paige, Mike O’Hearn, Harrison Page, Haley Bennett, and Harriet Sansom Harris. Magazine Dreams follows an amateur bodybuilder struggling to find human connection amid his relentless drive for perfection, which pushes him to the brink of a mental collapse. Elijah Bynum was set to direct the movie. Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy, Jeffrey Soros, and Simon Horsman were all tapped as producers.
The actor was also recently fired from the leading role in Dennis Rodman‘s biopic. CNN reported that the embattled entertainer was dropped from the project after he was found guilty of assault and harassment. “I cannot imagine a world where this moves forward with Jonathan,” an unnamed source told CNN.
In December 2023, a jury found the actor guilty of reckless assault in the third degree and harassment for attacking his ex-girlfriend. Marvel responded to the verdict and dropped the actor from their upcoming slate of films.
Majors was at the center of the MCU, playing the next big threat in Kang the Conqueror. The California native appeared in Ant-Man: Quantuamania and Loki as the multiversal villain. He was set to appear in the upcoming Avengers: Kang Dynasty, but he has since been axed from the upcoming films.
Jonathan Majors is set to be sentenced on Feb. 6. Majors currently faces up to a year in prison for his assault conviction. The harassment conviction potentially carries a 15-day sentence in jail and a $250 fine.
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