‘Materialists’: Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal & Chris Evans Romance Pic Lands Date With HBO Max

A24’s $104 million grossing romance movie, The Materialists, is debuting on HBO Max on Nov. 7 with a linear premiere of Saturday, Nov. 8, 8PM EST.

In the Celine Song directed and written feature, Dakota Johnson plays a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker who finds herself torn between the perfect rich dude match (Pedro Pascal) and her imperfect ex-boyfriend, who is a struggling actor (Chris Evans). The movie was produced by David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler and Celine Song.

Materialists arrives on HBO Max after a 147-day theatrical window. The movie opened to $11.3M at the domestic box office, and ended its U.S./Canada run at $36.5M with another near $66M from overseas, that international release handled by Sony. The movie received a 78% certified fresh with critics and in A24 fashion left the audiences debating its ending with a B- CinemaScore.

Deadline’s Chief Film Critics Pete Hammond beamed in his review, “Song has cast her three leads to perfection. Johnson nails all the insecurity beneath the surface of this seemingly assured businesswoman and is superb in what might be her best screen outing yet. Evans, always a better actor than he is given credit for, doesn’t miss a beat as a guy still struggling as an actor and as a man trying to find his true love, and knowing he probably already did – the one that got away. Pascal, in a role that could have been one-dimensional, gives Harry genuine humanity and likability. This is someone we also can root for, and in a key scene where he reveals his surprising vulnerability (it has to do with a kind of plastic surgery I never knew existed), he is heartbreakingly real.”