Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s sports melodrama entered cinemas with a delay. The award-winning creator’s filmography includes, for example, the Oscar-winning queer coming-of-age drama Give Me Your Name, a modern adaptation of the horror classic Suspiria, and the cannibal romance To the Bone.
It is not surprising that the director should have opened last year’s eightieth edition of the Venice Film Festival with his sports love triangle Rivals. However, due to the ongoing actors’ strike in Hollywood, the premiere has been pushed back and the film is only now entering official distribution.
In any case, the fateful match between two former friends was worth the wait. This is also evidenced by the first attendance figures, which report fifteen million sales in the United States for the opening weekend – which means not only the director’s most successful “opener”, but also confirmation of the ever-growing popularity of the actress Zendaya.
Zendaya was, according to the agency PostTrak, which conducts research on film audiences for major Hollywood studios, the main reason that brought viewers to the cinema. And thus the film received relatively high sales despite the fact that
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