Challengers (2024) is a romantic sports drama film from director Luca Guadagnino and writer Justin Kuritzkes. It stars Zendaya as Tashi, a former tennis phenom who enters her superstar husband Art (Mike Faist) in a local tournament to boost his confidence, only to find him facing his former best friend and her ex-boyfriend (Josh O’Connor). The film was originally slated for a debut at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, before the actors’ strike pushed its premiere back to April of this year. What propelled this to the top of the box office?
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