US Edition‘Materialists’ Review: Love Is No Equation in Celine Song’s Celebration of Messy Humanity
- Materialists, a 2025 romantic comedy, began screening globally including Australia on June 19, 2025, portraying curated romance in a transactional dating world.
- The film draws inspiration from Beau Brummell Introductions, an Australian-founded global gay matchmaking agency established in 2010 to help high-calibre men find long-term relationships.
- Beau Brummell Introductions offers compatibility assessments, curated matches, and coaching, facilitating over 1500 relationships worldwide that resulted in weddings, babies, and relocations.
- During June 13-15, 2025, Materialists earned $12 million, achieving the third-largest A24 opening weekend ever and surpassing some expensive 2025 IP films' openings.
- Materialists supports evidence that theatrical rom-coms, nearly absent in the 2020s, still resonate with audiences and could revive the genre’s viability on the big screen.
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How Many Times Must the Rom-Com Prove Itself at the Box Office?
Over the June 13-15, 2025 weekend, Materialists grossed $12 million over opening weekend. That wasn't just the third-biggest A24 opening weekend ever and bigger than the lifetime domestic haul of director Celine Song's last movie, Past Lives. It was also... Read more...
‘Materialists’ review: Love is no equation in Celine Song’s celebration of messy humanity
A sharp, soulful deconstruction of modern love, Materialists beautifully blends biting humor and tender humanity to expose the messy, transactional heart of dating in the digital age.
How Two Weddings Altered the Course of Modern Love in Celine Song’s ‘Materialists’
After cutting Celine Song’s first two films, “Past Lives” and “Materialists,” editor Keith Fraase has a clearer understanding of the director’s view on love and relationships, what our value is as people, and the different paths we can take in our lives. “All of these ideas are stemming from Celine’s brilliant mind, so, of course, her films are in conversation with each other,” Fraase told IndieWire. “The thing that was immediately most striking…
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Materialists Sparks Buzz About Elite Matchmaking -- But in Cities Like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami, It's Already a Reality
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES and MIAMI, June 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In Materialists, now screening in cinemas across the U.S., the world of curated romance takes centre stage: a glossy, transactional dating ecosystem where love is negotiated like a…
Materialists Sparks Buzz About Elite Matchmaking -- But in Cities Like Sydney, New York, and London, It's Already a Reality
SYDNEY, MELBOURNE and BRISBANE, Australia, June 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In Materialists, now screening in cinemas across Australia and globally, the world of curated romance takes centre stage: a glossy, transactional dating ecosystem where love is negotiated like a business deal, and a personal matchmaker plays both Cupid and consultant.
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