Capitulating off of the success of her debut film, Past Lives , Celine Song has returned to A24 to write and direct another romantic fairy tale set in New York, this time with a bigger cast - containing two Marvel stars (or three if you count Madame Web ) and a bigger axe to grind with modernity's outlook on romance. It stars Dakota Johnson as Lucy, a successful professional matchmaker for New York City's more elite residents and a proud singleton, who's just celebrating the ninth marriage that she's been responsible for. While attending the wedding of her matches, she's seduced by the groom's brother and best man, Harry (Pedro Pascal) a gentleman in every sense of the word who ticks all her boxes for someone she'd be willing to marry. Though also working at the wedding, is out of work actor and Lucy's ex, John (Chris Evans), who makes it clear that he still has feelings for his past lover. In a rare case, Materialists is a film where you maybe should ...
Before its marketing campaign even really began, Weapons ' publicity team got some very easy free advertisement in a news scoop that was doing the rounds online. It had been reported Zach Cregger, director of smash hit debut horror feature, Barbarian , had written a new script with eyes to direct once again and the production rights for this were put up for a bidding war. The rights, in the end, went to New Line Cinema, in conjunction with Warner Bros., however, in the race was Jordan Peele, the man behind modern horror classics such as Get Out and Nope, and his company Monkey Paw. Peele had been so angry that his company didn't win the rights that he fired his team who represented him in the bid. While this story didn't paint Jordan Peele in a particularly great light, it did raise the eyebrows of many a horror fan, that a man so clearly entrenched in the modern horror zeitgeist was desperate to produce this film. With Weapons ' release finally coming up on the ...