“Magazine Dreams” is interrupted while Jonathan Majors is on trial; Actors Strike postpones Disney’s “Elio” and “Snow White” until 2025

In the wake of the distribution of Robert De Niro’s gangster picture by Warner Bros Old knights There are numerous release date changes for Disney to later in 2024 due to the actors’ strike, but also Jonathan Majors’ ongoing legal issues.

It should come as no surprise that Searchlight won’t be opening the actor’s award-winning Sundance drama Magazine dreams on Dec. 8, while Majors faces a Nov. 29 trial date for a domestic violence case involving his ex-girlfriend from March of this year. No word on what happens next magazine dreams, But if all goes well with the majors, the calendar will actually need a lot of products in the new year. Searchlight still has Venice Film Festival winner Emma Stone, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Poor stuff takes place on December 8, a title season.

As for the impact of the actors’ strike on Disney programming: forget pushing the 2024 films further into next year; they have been completely withdrawn and postponed until 2025.

Disney/Pixar Elio runs from March 1, 2024 to June 13, 2025 and stars Rachel Zegler snow white, which has caused great controversy online, extends from March 22, 2024 to March 21, 2025.

Directed by Marc Webb Snow White with Zegler in the title role and Gal Gadot as the evil queen.

Zegler faced racist backlash online about her casting, but said in an interview with Variety: “Snow White is a very big thing in Spanish-speaking countries,” and expressed her pride in playing “a Latina princess.”

There is also an untitled Disney pic that will be moved from February 14, 2024 to April 5, 2024.

Disney recently retired New Regency’s The cyclists from its scheduled theatrical release on Dec. 1, partly because of AMC’s Beyonce concert film that day, but also because of the ongoing actors’ strike and the inability of the all-star cast of Tom Hardy, Austin Butler and Jodie Comer to advertise during awards season.

The Majors year got off to a flying start with rave reviews from Magazine dreams and Searchlight acquired the film for a possible awards season start, given the actor’s turn as a tortured amateur bodybuilder. Majors then had two tent poles in it Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in which he made his theatrical debut (following a launch on Disney+). Loki Season) as Kang the Conqueror; This film grossed $476 million worldwide Creed III grossed $275 million worldwide.

The actor’s momentum stalled after his arrest in March, when Majors was fired from several projects; Marvel is still waiting to see Majors as Kang the Conqueror in future films.

Majors faces felony charges stemming from an incident in and around his Chelsea apartment on March 25. Although Majors was the one to call 911 at the time, NYPD officers found multiple marks, “a cut” and a broken finger at the scene. against now ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari and arrested Majors. He was released hours after a hearing before a judge and pleaded not guilty.

Majors faces up to a year in prison if convicted on the charges prosecuted by District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. It is currently unknown whether Majors will be virtually or in person in Judge Michael Gaffey’s courtroom on Wednesday.

Yesterday, less than 24 hours after a New York judge dismissed Majors’ request to drop the domestic violence case against him, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said it would not prosecute the case. Loki Actor’s accuser.

“The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has formally declined to prosecute the case against Grace Jabbari due to a lack of potential prosecution,” a spokesman for District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday morning. “The case is now closed and sealed.”