Challengers Scores Luca Guadagnino His Biggest Box Office Opening Yet

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Challengers easy took archetypal spot astatine the box office this weekend, bringing successful $15.2 million, successful enactment with estimates up of its release. The movie marked the biggest opening play for manager Luca Guadagnino, besting his past film, the Timothée Chalamet cannibal romance Bones and All. There’s inactive country for Challengers to recoup its $55 cardinal fund successful the weeks ahead, earlier it presumably moves to Amazon Prime. But adjacent play volition spot tougher contention for the tennis drama, with the premiere of The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Coming successful astatine a distant 2nd spot this play was Unsung Hero, astir the enactment of the Christian stone duo For King & Country, which took successful $7.7 million. That came successful conscionable up of 3rd spot finisher Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire which earned $7.2 million. It seems similar the trios are besting duos astatine the container bureau truthful far, truthful ticker out, The Fall Guy…or find a third.