Magazine Dreams is a bodybuilding drama written and directed by Elijah Bynum. It features Jonathan Majors in the lead role as Killian Maddox, an aspiring bodybuilder loosely inspired by a real person.

Magazine Dreams was as sure a thing as movies come in Hollywood. Headlined by a rising star. Rave reviews. A Sundance bidding war. A planned Oscar run. But then its lead actor, Jonathan Majors ...

The grueling character study “Magazine Dreams” has had a rocky road to the screen, fighting uphill against everything that fate, its star and arguably its director could throw against it. Yet ...

Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ Unlikely to Get Searchlight Release After Star’s Conviction. The searing body building drama was the darling of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and had ...

Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams” opens on images of a man in on a runaway as his barely-clothed body is embraced by light. It’s a warm yet lonely image, and that contradiction invests it ...

Magazine Dreams tracks Killian’s wavy but steady crescendo toward unforgivable violence — as we can expect that a movie such as this, so rooted in male insecurity, will set out to do.

As Magazine Dreams prepares for its theatrical release, it stands at the intersection of art and controversy. Majors’ transformation into Killian Maddox is not just a physical one; ...

What to expect from ‘Magazine Dreams’ Tom Ortenberg, Briarcliff’s CEO, didn’t mince words when describing the film’s impact. “It’s a visceral experience that challenges the ...

When an independent filmmaker wants to hypnotize an audience, show off his chops, and make a grand statement, a surefire way to do it — at least if he has the talent ­— is to create his own ...