EXCLUSIVE: Dreams Magazinethe drama that left Sundance with Oscar rumors for Jonathan Mayores‘, the intense portrayal of a troubled aspiring bodybuilder, will finally get its chance to hit movie screens.
Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to the critically acclaimed film, with plans to release in the first quarter of 2025. This becomes the second quality film taken by Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff, after the distributor acquired the upcoming Donald Trump-Roy Cohn film. grown-up drama The apprentice. Conglomerate-related distributors rejected that film after its provocative debut at Cannes, but Briarcliff will release it in the middle of the election season on October 11. That film shows the lessons an aspiring real estate mogul learned after being taken under the wing of the reptilian lawyer who was once Senator Joseph McCarthy’s right-hand man in the sensational communist witch hunt.
Ortenberg also distributed Stand outabout him Boston Globe exposing the Catholic Church’s scandalous cover-up of child abuse. That film won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Like many Sundance films, Dreams Magazine He left Park City with big dreams. He Elias Bynum The written and directed drama featured a jaw-dropping performance from Majors, who transformed his body by eating 6,100 calories a day, training six days a week for four months to physically transform himself into the most believable representation of a young man so hell-bent on becoming a bodybuilding champion. who defies his doctors’ requests that he stop taking steroids because they were destroying his liver. The burly character was prone to dark moods and had trouble making human connections. All of this led Killian Maddox down a dark path, driven by his fixation with a champion bodybuilder he is obsessed with.
Seniors, who had Creed III After this Sundance film received strong reviews, he was hired to be the central villain figure in the upcoming Avengers movies, and is set to follow a path not seen in Hollywood since Russell Crowe followed his escape in Los Angeles Confidential with tour de force performances crowned by Gladiator, a beautiful mind and The informant. Dreams Magazine won the US Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Creative Vision at Sundance, and in its limited festival window earned a Rotten Tomatoes approval score of 82% with over 90 reviews. reflector images won the film at an auction among several bidders, and Majors was poised to be a major player in awards season after sharp swings in The last black man in San Franciscothe limited series Lovecraft Countryand the Marvel movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantimania.
That all came undone when the Yale School of Drama graduated. Mayor was arrested for physically attacking his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, an incident that ended with his discovery guilty of two misdemeanors of assault and harassment. At first, Majors seemed defiant and the press coverage was extensive. The narrative changed quickly Dreams Magazineand Searchlight was delayed and then dropped the film.
Time has passed and Ortenberg responded to something undeniable for those who saw Dreams Magazine: is a gem of an indie film driven by a remarkable performance and a strong supporting cast from Haley Bennett, Taylour Paige, and four-time Mr. Universe Mike O’Hearn. It also heralded a promising new cinematic voice in Bynum.
“Dreams Magazine “It is a visceral experience that challenges perceptions of ambition and identity,” Ortenberg told Deadline in a statement confirming the deal. “Elijah’s film made a well-deserved stir at Sundance and Briarcliff hopes to bring his story to the big screen nationwide in early 2025.
“Jonathan Majors’ transcendent performance as Killian Maddox will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most compelling and transformative roles in recent film history,” he said. “We are honored to bring this extraordinary work to theaters across the country, inviting audiences to witness a story that will resonate long after the credits roll.”
The film is produced by Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy, Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman. Executive producers include Majors for Tall Street Productions and Luke Rodgers and Andrew Blau for Los Angeles Media Fund.
Fox said the producers are “delighted to be working with Tom again after an excellent collaboration on Night Crawler,” directed by Gilroy and starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a cameraman chasing an ambulance in a compellingly dark thriller.
Soros added: “Tom has made a career of championing compelling films that push boundaries and filmmakers who stand the test of time, so we couldn’t have stronger partners in releasing. Dreams Magazine than him and the great team at Briarcliff.”
The deal was negotiated by CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers and by Ortenberg, Jessica Rose and Danielle Goodman Strong on behalf of Briarcliff Entertainment.
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