Jonathan Majors’ film Magazine Dreams gets a premiere date after Disney previously canceled the film

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Jonathan Majors’ bodybuilding film Magazine Dreams is getting a release date after Disney previously pulled the title from its slate of films due to Majors’ legal troubles.

Briarcliff Entertainment CEO Tony Ortenberg told CNN on Wednesday that the company has acquired domestic distribution rights to the film, which is scheduled to hit theaters in early 2025.

Majors, who previously appeared in “Creed III” as well as Disney’s Marvel film “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and the Disney+ series “Loki,” plays an amateur in “Magazine,” which also stars Haley Bennett -Bodybuilder.

“‘Magazine Dreams’ is a visceral experience that challenges perceptions of ambition and identity,” Ortenberg said in a statement. “Jonathan Majors’ stunning performance as Killian Maddox will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most compelling and transformative roles in recent cinema history.”

Briarcliff Entertainment is also the distributor of the upcoming film “The Apprentice,” which chronicles former President Donald Trump’s real estate dealings in New York in the 1980s and stars Sebastian Stan as Trump, “Succession” star Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Oscar – nominated “Borat 2” actress Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.

“Magazine Dreams” was originally acquired by Searchlight after it received critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival last year. It was scheduled for release in December, but was pulled from Disney’s release calendar shortly before the trial of the majors began.

A New York jury found Majors guilty in December of assault and harassment of his former girlfriend during a domestic dispute. He was convicted of one count of third-degree negligent assault and one non-criminal charge of harassment as a violation.

Majors, who had previously pleaded not guilty to all charges, was acquitted of another count of assault and one count of aggravated harassment. He avoided prison time but was sentenced to a 52-week mandatory personal domestic violence prevention program.

The majors were set to reprise his Marvel character in “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars,” but Marvel announced in July that “Kang Dynasty” would be replaced by “Avengers: Doomsday,” with the return of Robert Downey Jr. to the MCU.

CNN’s Dan Heching contributed to this report.