'Challengers' Trailer: Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist Play Wicked Games in Tennis Love Triangle

Sharareh Drury SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “A Most Uncomfortable Woman,” Season 7, Episode 4 of “Outlander,” now streaming on Starz. As the American Revolution revs up on “Outlander,” a battle over a new lass may also have begun for two of the series’ most handsome bachelors — Ian (John Bell) and William Ransom (Charles Vandervaart).  In the fourth episode of Outlander’s seventh season, Ian discovers Ransom severely injured in the woods after being bucked off his horse while on a covert mission for the British army. The two come upon Quaker siblings Denzell Hunter (Joey Phillips) and Rachel Murray (Izzy Meikle-Small) while in search of medical aid for Ransom. Hunter is luckily medically skilled, planning to serve as a Continental Army surgeon.

Well, it’s official: Variety reports that Luca Guadagnino‘s latest, his tennis love triangle film “Challengers,” will open the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival. No surprise there, as Guada has premiered five of his seven feature films on the Lido.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Luca Guadagnino’s sexy sports comedy “Challengers,” starring Zendaya as a former tennis prodigy turned coach entangled in a love triangle with two pro tennis players, played by Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, will open the Venice Film Festival. “Challengers” will world premiere out of competition on Aug. 30 in the Venice Lido’s Palazzo del Cinema, providing a star-studded kickoff for the fest’s 80th edition. The hotly anticipated film – which marks Guadagnino’s first full-fledged U.S. studio movie – will be distributed in the U.S. by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures/Amazon Studios, and internationally through Warner Bros Pictures.

Tom Holland is feeling «lucky» for his relationship with Zendaya. The actor opened up about his high-profile romance in a new interview on the Wondery podcast Smartless, telling hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes that their shared experience in Hollywood is key to making their relationship work. «I'm lucky that I have someone like Zendaya in my life,» Holland said, via. «It's interesting being in a romantic relationship with someone that is in the same boat as you.»Holland, 27, and Zendaya, 26, met on the set of after landing the roles in March 2016.

Carrie Underwood, it would turn out to be the ultimate one. In November 2009, the  alum paid a visit to , where she shared an update on her ongoing romance with Mike Fisher, who was an ice hockey pro playing for the Ottawa Senators at the time. The singer confirmed they had been dating for close to a year at that point, setting the record in her personal life.

, the style quickly became one of the year’s most popular hair trends. Blunt and super low-maintenance, the model and beauty founder has worn it variously sleek and smooth, wet-look, and .

Daisy Kelliher‘s relationship with Colin MacRae hit another obstacle — and Gary King was once again caught in the middle.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large If this year’s Emmy ballots are any indication, the era of Peak TV may truly be over — which FX boss John Landgraf has of course been predicting for some time. There are 163 dramas, 95 comedies and 51 limited/anthology series that have been submitted — down from 171 dramas, 118 comedies and 61 limited/anthology series last year. That’s still a lot of TV, but with fewer contenders comes the possibility of more dark horses getting noticed.

Tom Holland shared that his carpentry skills played a part in romancing Zendaya.

Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who first shared a stage in The Book of Mormon, will return to Broadway together this fall in Gutenberg! The Musical!, the Scott Brown-Anthony King musical to be directed by Alex Timbers.

One royal couple Charles could count on to join him for his first day at Royal Ascot as King was Zara and Mike Tindall.

Challengers, a tennis drama starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, has dropped.Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Bones And All) has directed the film, which arrives in US cinemas on September 15.It follows the drama on and off court between former tennis prodigy-turned-coach Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), her husband and failing tennis pro, Art (Faist) and fellow tennis player Patrick (O’Connor), who is Art’s former best friend and Tashi’s ex boyfriend.In the trailer, snippets of Tashi strategising for her husband’s professional redemption are shown, winding up with a match against Patrick. Flashbacks to Tashi, Art and Patrick engaging in a threesome of some description when they were younger are also shown.Meanwhile, in other related news, Zendaya is set to reprise her role as Chani in Dune: Part Two – and the official trailer was released last month.Zendaya, who plays the lead in HBO‘s Euphoria series, also joined the series’ soundtrack star Labrinth onstage at Coachella Festival 2023 in April, making her first live performance in more than eight years.The actress and musician released her self-titled debut album in 2013 ahead of a tour that wrapped in 2015.

The tennis world is intense on and off the court.

After incredible, award-winning success with his film, “Call Me By Your Name,” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has been happily toiling away in the horror film genre with his last two movies, “Suspiria” and “Bones & All.” Now, it appears the filmmaker is leaving the gore behind for something new—a sports drama titled “Challengers.” READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2023 As seen in the trailer for “Challengers,” the film follows the story of a young professional tennis prodigy who is at the top of her game.

Zendaya is caught in a very steamy love triangle in the debut trailer for her upcoming tennis drama Challengers.

Charna Flam Could Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film be a “love” story for the ages? Guadagnino’s latest feature, “Challengers,” has finally released its first trailer, providing a highly anticipated look at Zendaya and Josh O’Connor in what’s being billed as a romantic sports comedy film. Zendaya stars as pro tennis player Tashi opposite O’Connor and Mike Faist (“West Side Story”). “Challengers” follows Tashi and her husband, Art (Faist), as they reunite with a former rival, Patrick (O’Connor) — who also happens to be Tashi’s former lover and best friend. Tashi convinces Art to enter the Challengers tennis tournament, but once Art learns he’ll be playing against Patrick, drama — and major competition — ensues.

Former Love Island star Olivia Hawkins is back as OK!'s weekly Love Island guest columnist, where she will discuss all of the goings on in the villa, from the love matches, to the tears, the tantrums and, of course, the drama. This week, things were shaken up with the shock double dumping of Charlotte Sumner and Andre Furtado, whilst new bombshell, Scott Van-Der-Sluis turned a few of the girls' heads.There's been more friction between Tyrique Hyde and Ella Thomas, whilst Molly Marsh and Zachariah Noble's romance is heating up. Here's Olivia's take on everything that went down on Love Island this week...

Zendaya and Tom Holland are enjoying some downtime together in London!

Jessica Kiang Over the course of his first three features — “Ilo Ilo,” “Wet Season” and this year’s “Drift” — Singaporean director Anthony Chen has developed a signature style. It is a graceful, lucid classicism, a mode that in its straightforward sincerity is not fashionable in our abrasive moment, but can yield significant satisfactions. That is certainly true of his second film of 2023, “The Breaking Ice,” which describes, in a trio of perfectly judged  performances, the burgeoning, momentous and yet fleeting connection between three differently lonely people — a love triangle with rounded, snowdrift corners. Yu Jing-Pin’s lovely photography contrasts wintry wides and warm close-ups, as writer-director Chen carves out three characters against the frozen landscapes of Yanji, a small Chinese town in shouting distance of the North Korean border. This is the current home of Nana (Zhou Dongyu, “Better Days”) an unfulfilled bus-tour guide who switches on her ready smile for her passengers — and switches it off just as quickly when she turns away to massage her cold, cramping feet.

for years, but—according to Tom Holland himself—it's not because charming. In a recent video interview with Buzzfeed, credits the Spider-Man movies for his romantic success, rather than his “rizz.”“[I have] no rizz whatsoever, I have limited rizz," Holland says in the interview. “My brother Paddy has ultimate rizz. I don't know, I need you to fall in love with me, really, for it to work.