Directed by Call Me By Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino, Challengers chronicles the rise and fall of the former tennis protégé Tashi (Zendaya). A bright future was ahead of her before an injury derailed her career as a professional tennis player, forcing her to turn to coaching instead.

She poured all her energy into helping her husband Art (Mike Faist) become a Grand Slam champion. Once he finds himself in a rut, Tashi decides to sign him up for a low-level event to gain back his confidence, but it turns out he won’t get an easy win because his former best friend and Tashi’s ex Patrick (Josh O’Connor) is also playing.

R-rated original films usually struggle to make a mark at the box office, but that didn’t stop Challengers from serving up a win with a $15 million opening. In addition to topping the domestic box office, it earned $10 million outside of North America.

Challengers was initially slated for the world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year before shifting its release date to April 26, 2024, due to dual strikes in Hollywood.

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Dune: Part Two was initially supposed to hit the theaters last fall, but its release date was delayed to March 1, 2024, in the face of Hollywood strikes. This decision paid off big time, and this film ended up grossing $81.5 million domestically plus $97 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $178.5 million.

Dune: Part Two owes a significant part of its earnings to sold-out IMAX showings, which accounted for 23% of domestic sales or $18.5 million. Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX, addressed the film’s huge success in this format and said that this number wasn’t higher only because they ran out of seats.

Dune: Part Two is based on Frank Herbert’s seminal epic sci-fi novel of the same name, and Denis Villeneuve is plotting the adaptation of its sequel Dune Messiah. Timothée Chalamet led the star-studded ensemble cast alongside Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux.

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With the exception of Zendaya (Dune franchise) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Ant-Man), all of the newly announced presenters are former Oscar winners. Yeoh will be joined by last year’s winners Brendan Fraser, Ke Huy Quan Curtis, and Jamie Lee Curtis – and they’ll be in pretty good company!

Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas), Jessica Lange (Tootsie), Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman), and Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) will also hit the stage, and they all have at least one Oscar under their belt.

Adding a roster of former Academy Award winners to the lineup isn’t a coincidence, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They report that the upcoming ceremony will return to the “Field of Dreams-like format” from 2009, inviting five former acting winners to introduce the five current nominees in their respective categories.

The 96th Academy Awards will take place on March 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the show for the fourth time.

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While Rihanna’s “S&M” and Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater” play in the distance, we watch Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan play tennis—and love games—with Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O’Connor).

The first time they cross paths, Tashi is a young tennis protégé with a bright future ahead of her… but not for too long. The trajectory of her life completely changes after she suffers a major injury, which forces her to leave professional tennis for good and become a coach instead.

Tashi embraces her new calling, helping her husband Art become a Grand Slam champion. After he hits a losing streak, she decides to help him get back on his feet by signing him up for a low-level Challenger event, where he’ll face his most formidable opponent yet in his former friend and Tashi’s ex-lover Patrick.

Challengers was supposed to open the Venice Film Festival last year, but MGM was forced to pull out of its event due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. After several major delays, this film is now set for the April 26 premiere date.

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Challengers will center on a former tennis player turned coach Tashi (Zendaya), who transformed her husband Art (Mike Faist) into a world-famous grand slam champion. Following a losing streak, she convinces him to sign up for a “Challenger” event, where he’ll come face to face with his former best friend and Tashi’s ex Patrick (Josh O’Connor).

The new poster for the highly-anticipated film puts an artist’s twist on the film’s love triangle. Zendaya’s Tashi is shown observing the match between Art and Patrick, and their figures are reflected on the frames of her purple sunglasses.

Challengers hails from the visionary director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), while Justin Kuritzkes wrote the script. The duo also joined forces for the adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel Queer, set to come out later this year.

Challengers was initially picked as the opening film of last year’s Venice International Film Festival, but this plan fell through due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Its release date was pushed several times, and it’s now set for April 26, 2024.

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Euphoria has become one of HBO’s most talked-about shows in recent memory since its premiere in 2019. This coming-of-age series centers on a group of teens trying to find their way in the world while struggling to strike the balance between love, loss, and pain.

Season 3 of Euphoria is currently in the making, but its release date remains a mystery in the face of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood. Even though we’ll have to wait for a while until the third season sees the light of day, Levinson knows exactly where the story will go.

Levinson discussed the upcoming season in Zendaya’s cover story for Elle and compared it to a film noir. He also revealed that the main character Rue will “explore what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world.”

In addition to winning two Emmy Awards for her work in Euphoria, Zendaya also starred in Levinson’s 2021 film Malcolm & Marie. He had nothing but words for praise for her in the Elle interview, and said that “she’s constantly growing as an artist and always seeking a challenge.”

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According to its official synopsis, Challengers is a high-stakes drama where pasts and presents collide and tensions run high. It centers on Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, who makes no apologies for her game, on and off the court.

She’s on a quest to help her husband Art (Mike Faist) make a comeback after a losing streak, but his redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up tennis player Patrick (Josh O’Connor), who just happens to be his former best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend.

In addition to playing one of the lead roles, Zendaya will also produce the film alongside Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, and Amy Pascal. Challengers marks her first lead movie role since Malcolm & Marie in 2021, and it will be released on September 15 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Zendaya will also return as Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s space epic Dune: Part Two later this year.

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According to the official logline, Dune: Part Two will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. He must choose between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe while trying to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

In addition to Chalamet and Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem, and Charlotte Rampling will reprise their roles from the first film. The sequel will introduce Austin Butler as the film’s sinister new villain, with Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux in supporting roles.

Dune: Part Two will be released on November 3 by Warner Bros. Pictures, and Villeneuve expressed interest in directing another follow-up if this one does well. Prequel series Dune: The Sisterhood is also in development at HBO Max.

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The crowd went wild when Zendaya hit the stage in a pink dress with a white tank top and thigh-high black boots. She performed two songs by his side: “I’m Tired” and “All for Us”, which were featured in her hit HBO show Euphoria.

Zendaya was ecstatic to return to the stage alongside Labrinth and thanked everyone who was there to support her on social media.

“Thank you to my brother Labrinth for inviting me and giving me the most beautiful safe space to be on a stage again. And to the crowd tonight… Wow… My heart is full, I can’t thank you enough for the love I received tonight, made my nerves melt away. I’m so grateful,” Zendaya wrote on Instagram.

Zendaya released her debut album in 2013, while she was still starring on Shake It Up and went on to star in the musical The Greatest Showman, but she’s been mostly focusing on acting in recent years. In a recent interview with Andrew Garfield for Variety, she said she doesn’t know if she could be a pop star and that she stepped away from music “for various reasons”.

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The HBO show, based on an Israeli series of the same name, has regularly topped viewership charts as audiences tune in to follow the scandalous lives of high school students in the fictional Southern California community of East Highland. 

Zendaya’s performance as Rue Bennett has earned her both critical and fan praise, as well as an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Series. With the show having been renewed for a third season, the Dune star, who also serves as executive producer, says she’d like to see what the characters are like outside of high school. 

“I want to see what Rue looks like in her sobriety journey, how chaotic that might look,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “But also with all the characters, in the sense where they’re trying to figure out what to do with their lives when high school is over and what kind of people they want to be.”

Season two of Euphoria picked up 16 nominations at the 2022 Primetime Emmys, with Zendaya expected to win again for Best Actress. It has been revealed, however, that the 25-year-old actress was not the first choice for the role of Rue. 

According to Euphoria casting director, Jennifer Venditti, the lead almost went to an unknown actress with a similar background to Rue, but producers were unsure whether she would handle the emotional pressure of such a heavy role. 

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Directed by Call Me By Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino, Challengers chronicles the rise and fall of the former tennis protégé Tashi (Zendaya). A bright future was ahead of her before an injury derailed her career as a professional tennis player, forcing her to turn to coaching instead.

She poured all her energy into helping her husband Art (Mike Faist) become a Grand Slam champion. Once he finds himself in a rut, Tashi decides to sign him up for a low-level event to gain back his confidence, but it turns out he won’t get an easy win because his former best friend and Tashi’s ex Patrick (Josh O’Connor) is also playing.

R-rated original films usually struggle to make a mark at the box office, but that didn’t stop Challengers from serving up a win with a $15 million opening. In addition to topping the domestic box office, it earned $10 million outside of North America.

Challengers was initially slated for the world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year before shifting its release date to April 26, 2024, due to dual strikes in Hollywood.

The post “Challengers” Demolishes Competition with $15 Million Opening appeared first on EverydayKoala.

Dune: Part Two was initially supposed to hit the theaters last fall, but its release date was delayed to March 1, 2024, in the face of Hollywood strikes. This decision paid off big time, and this film ended up grossing $81.5 million domestically plus $97 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $178.5 million.

Dune: Part Two owes a significant part of its earnings to sold-out IMAX showings, which accounted for 23% of domestic sales or $18.5 million. Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX, addressed the film’s huge success in this format and said that this number wasn’t higher only because they ran out of seats.

Dune: Part Two is based on Frank Herbert’s seminal epic sci-fi novel of the same name, and Denis Villeneuve is plotting the adaptation of its sequel Dune Messiah. Timothée Chalamet led the star-studded ensemble cast alongside Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux.

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With the exception of Zendaya (Dune franchise) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Ant-Man), all of the newly announced presenters are former Oscar winners. Yeoh will be joined by last year’s winners Brendan Fraser, Ke Huy Quan Curtis, and Jamie Lee Curtis – and they’ll be in pretty good company!

Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas), Jessica Lange (Tootsie), Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman), and Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) will also hit the stage, and they all have at least one Oscar under their belt.

Adding a roster of former Academy Award winners to the lineup isn’t a coincidence, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They report that the upcoming ceremony will return to the “Field of Dreams-like format” from 2009, inviting five former acting winners to introduce the five current nominees in their respective categories.

The 96th Academy Awards will take place on March 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the show for the fourth time.

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While Rihanna’s “S&M” and Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater” play in the distance, we watch Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan play tennis—and love games—with Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O’Connor).

The first time they cross paths, Tashi is a young tennis protégé with a bright future ahead of her… but not for too long. The trajectory of her life completely changes after she suffers a major injury, which forces her to leave professional tennis for good and become a coach instead.

Tashi embraces her new calling, helping her husband Art become a Grand Slam champion. After he hits a losing streak, she decides to help him get back on his feet by signing him up for a low-level Challenger event, where he’ll face his most formidable opponent yet in his former friend and Tashi’s ex-lover Patrick.

Challengers was supposed to open the Venice Film Festival last year, but MGM was forced to pull out of its event due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. After several major delays, this film is now set for the April 26 premiere date.

The post It’s a Game, Set, Match for Zendaya in the New “Challengers” Trailer appeared first on EverydayKoala.

Challengers will center on a former tennis player turned coach Tashi (Zendaya), who transformed her husband Art (Mike Faist) into a world-famous grand slam champion. Following a losing streak, she convinces him to sign up for a “Challenger” event, where he’ll come face to face with his former best friend and Tashi’s ex Patrick (Josh O’Connor).

The new poster for the highly-anticipated film puts an artist’s twist on the film’s love triangle. Zendaya’s Tashi is shown observing the match between Art and Patrick, and their figures are reflected on the frames of her purple sunglasses.

Challengers hails from the visionary director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), while Justin Kuritzkes wrote the script. The duo also joined forces for the adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel Queer, set to come out later this year.

Challengers was initially picked as the opening film of last year’s Venice International Film Festival, but this plan fell through due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Its release date was pushed several times, and it’s now set for April 26, 2024.

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Euphoria has become one of HBO’s most talked-about shows in recent memory since its premiere in 2019. This coming-of-age series centers on a group of teens trying to find their way in the world while struggling to strike the balance between love, loss, and pain.

Season 3 of Euphoria is currently in the making, but its release date remains a mystery in the face of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood. Even though we’ll have to wait for a while until the third season sees the light of day, Levinson knows exactly where the story will go.

Levinson discussed the upcoming season in Zendaya’s cover story for Elle and compared it to a film noir. He also revealed that the main character Rue will “explore what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world.”

In addition to winning two Emmy Awards for her work in Euphoria, Zendaya also starred in Levinson’s 2021 film Malcolm & Marie. He had nothing but words for praise for her in the Elle interview, and said that “she’s constantly growing as an artist and always seeking a challenge.”

The post “Euphoria” Creator Sam Levinson Compares Third Season to “Film Noir” appeared first on EverydayKoala.

According to its official synopsis, Challengers is a high-stakes drama where pasts and presents collide and tensions run high. It centers on Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, who makes no apologies for her game, on and off the court.

She’s on a quest to help her husband Art (Mike Faist) make a comeback after a losing streak, but his redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up tennis player Patrick (Josh O’Connor), who just happens to be his former best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend.

In addition to playing one of the lead roles, Zendaya will also produce the film alongside Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, and Amy Pascal. Challengers marks her first lead movie role since Malcolm & Marie in 2021, and it will be released on September 15 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Zendaya will also return as Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s space epic Dune: Part Two later this year.

The post Zendaya Takes the Lead in First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” appeared first on EverydayKoala.

According to the official logline, Dune: Part Two will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. He must choose between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe while trying to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

In addition to Chalamet and Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem, and Charlotte Rampling will reprise their roles from the first film. The sequel will introduce Austin Butler as the film’s sinister new villain, with Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux in supporting roles.

Dune: Part Two will be released on November 3 by Warner Bros. Pictures, and Villeneuve expressed interest in directing another follow-up if this one does well. Prequel series Dune: The Sisterhood is also in development at HBO Max.

The post Timothée Chalamet & Zendaya Return to the Desert in “Dune: Part 2” Trailer appeared first on EverydayKoala.

The crowd went wild when Zendaya hit the stage in a pink dress with a white tank top and thigh-high black boots. She performed two songs by his side: “I’m Tired” and “All for Us”, which were featured in her hit HBO show Euphoria.

Zendaya was ecstatic to return to the stage alongside Labrinth and thanked everyone who was there to support her on social media.

“Thank you to my brother Labrinth for inviting me and giving me the most beautiful safe space to be on a stage again. And to the crowd tonight… Wow… My heart is full, I can’t thank you enough for the love I received tonight, made my nerves melt away. I’m so grateful,” Zendaya wrote on Instagram.

Zendaya released her debut album in 2013, while she was still starring on Shake It Up and went on to star in the musical The Greatest Showman, but she’s been mostly focusing on acting in recent years. In a recent interview with Andrew Garfield for Variety, she said she doesn’t know if she could be a pop star and that she stepped away from music “for various reasons”.

The post Zendaya Wows Coachella Crowd With Surprise Performance Alongside Labrinth appeared first on EverydayKoala.

The HBO show, based on an Israeli series of the same name, has regularly topped viewership charts as audiences tune in to follow the scandalous lives of high school students in the fictional Southern California community of East Highland. 

Zendaya’s performance as Rue Bennett has earned her both critical and fan praise, as well as an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Series. With the show having been renewed for a third season, the Dune star, who also serves as executive producer, says she’d like to see what the characters are like outside of high school. 

“I want to see what Rue looks like in her sobriety journey, how chaotic that might look,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “But also with all the characters, in the sense where they’re trying to figure out what to do with their lives when high school is over and what kind of people they want to be.”

Season two of Euphoria picked up 16 nominations at the 2022 Primetime Emmys, with Zendaya expected to win again for Best Actress. It has been revealed, however, that the 25-year-old actress was not the first choice for the role of Rue. 

According to Euphoria casting director, Jennifer Venditti, the lead almost went to an unknown actress with a similar background to Rue, but producers were unsure whether she would handle the emotional pressure of such a heavy role. 

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