Rahul Malhotra is a news writer at Collider specialising in box office coverage, and Indian cinema. He has been contributing to Collider for 3 years.
The Big Picture Premature digital debuts don’t really affect a film’s box office trajectory, especially if the film in question is already doing well. But theaters certainly don’t think twice before bailing on them once they land online. Despite having debuted on PVOD platforms just three weeks into its run, director Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers has remained stable at the box office.
Challengers follows the romantic escapades of these three characters — Zendaya plays a tennis coach, while O’Connor and Faist play rival players — across several years, and has generated praise for Guadagnino’s flamboyant direction, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ thumping score, and its non-linear script. The film holds an 89% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, and opened to $15 million in its first weekend domestically, finishing first.
She was so indispensable to the project that Amazon MGM chose to delay its release by several months, because the SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023 would have prevented her from promoting it. Challengerswas originally supposed to premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival. But the movie was given a proper global roll-out this year, as opposed to several Amazon movies such as The Idea of You and Road House, which debuted directly on streaming despite the involvement of major stars.
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