Magazine Dreams has finally secured a release date, nearly two years after the Jonathan Majors-led bodybuilding movie was a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival.
Writer-director Elijah Bynum‘s feature hits theaters March 21, 2025, from Briarcliff Entertainment.Starring Majors as amateurbodybuilder Killian Maddox, the film’s cast includes Haley Bennett, Taylour Paige, Mike O’Hearn, Harrison Page and Harriet Sansom Harris.
Like many Sundance films, Magazine Dreams came out of Park City with big dreams. The Elijah Bynum scripted and directed drama featured an astonishing performance by Majors, who transformed his body by eating 6100 calories daily, training six days per week over four months to physically transform himself into a most believable rendering of a young man so hellbent on becoming a champion bodybuilder that he defies his doctors’ appeals that he stop taking steroids because they were destroying his liver.
The hulking character was prone to dark moods, and he had trouble establishing human connections. All this took Killian Maddox down a dark path, fueled by his fixation with a champion bodybuilder he is obsessed with.
Zeus Network is Briarcliff’s marketing partner for Magazine Dreams.
The film is produced by Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy, Jeffrey Soros, and Simon Horsman. Executive producers include Majors for his Tall Street Productions, and Luke Rodgers and Andrew Blau for Los Angeles Media Fund. Also executive producing are Lemuel Plummer, LJ Plummer and Jason Tolbert.
