The box office approves of the horny tennis movie
Zendaya's Challengers topped a very sleepy box office, with Christian music drama Unsung Hero in second place
Luca Guadagnino’s new sexually charged sports drama Challengers—which might also, now that we think of it, be described as an athletically charged sex drama—is expected to triumph at the U.S. box office this weekend. That is , admittedly, with the caveat that this has been one of the sleepiest weeks at movie theaters in recent memory; Guadagnino’s film, which stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist as the members of a slow-burning ménage a topspin, is expected to bring in $15 million at the domestic box office. That is, admittedly, a pretty damn good haul for Guadagnino’s whose films—Call Me By Your Name, the 2018 Suspiria remake, cannibal romance Bones And All—have never exactly been fiscal high-fliers. By those standards, Challengers’ $15 million makes it a goddamned blockbuster.
