Do you want to see Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and, everyone’s favourite, Pedro Pascal in a romantic comedy? Then you are in luck, dear Outposter. Here is a trailer for Materialists.
The movie stars Johnson, Evens, Pascal, Marin Ireland, Sawyer Spielberg, Lindsey Broad, Eddie Cahill, Louisa Jacobson and Will Fitz. Celine Song is the writer and director.
I’ll be honest, I started typing most of this up before I watched the trailer. Since most of it has been written up, we might has well get through the rest of it. The story for the Materialists is:
A matchmaker’s lucrative business is complicated when she falls into a toxic love triangle that threatens her clients.
Wasn’t that the same story as Hitch with Will Smith? I’ve seen this described as a ‘rom-com with a twist’, but I have yet to see the twist. It’s pretty annoying to see that Evans has trouble getting a girlfriend.
An interesting fact is that Materialists is that was shot on original 35mm stock, technically making it a film, not a movie. 35mm was originally introduced in 1890 by William Kennedy Dickson and Thomas Edison.
Film 35 mm wide with four perforations per frame became accepted as the international standard gauge in 1909, and remained by far the dominant film gauge for image origination and projection until the advent of digital photography and cinematography.
35mm stayed as the industry standard until the 2010s, where digital projection took over. 35mm reels were expensive to produce and ship, whereas digital files are cheaper and cut down on a lot of costs. Which was something the cinemas never seemed to pass on to the customers.
Where was I? I lost my train of thought there. Oh yeah, Materialists is in theatres, via digital projection, on the 13th of June.
