Challengers
From weird little critters to weird little Michael Keatons, the IndieWire Craft team picks the film scores that have moved us most this year.
How Did They Shoot That?
The ‘Challengers’ VFX supervisor shows IndieWire how they pulled off Luca Guadadigno’s vision of the camera and tennis ball becoming one.
VOD REPORT
Sony and Netflix join Warner Bros./Max with the "Madame Web" streaming debut three months or less after opening.
Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist are soon to be seen on screens everywhere.
"Challengers" is far from the first film in history to generate discourse through a ménage-à-trois.
Box office
A $28.5 million opening on a $130 million movie is the least of it. In better news, "I Saw the TV Glow," "Wildcat," and "Evil Does Not Exist" saw decent platform debuts.
The "Challengers" screenwriter told IndieWire that his second collaboration with director Luca Guadagnino, an adaptation of a William S. Burroughs novel, required an entirely different writing process.
Though screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes tells IndieWire that he ended "Challengers" in a way "that's satisfying enough for me," star Zendaya admitted she still has questions.
Though his love triangle film has parallels to his wife Celine Song's filmmaking debut "Past Lives," screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes would not classify "Challengers" as auto-fiction in the same way.
Box Office
An awful April ends with another sub-$70 million weekend.
Like This? Watch That.
With the release of "Challengers" this weekend, we look back on a different kind of cinematic threesome.
Luca Guadagnino Says No Movie Should Have ‘90 Takes’ Per Scene: ‘Why Do You Have to Torture People?’
In discussing "Challengers" and his process, the Italian director doesn't see the need to indulge.
