Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” is swinging into streaming. The Zendaya-led drama is will be available to stream on Prime Video beginning Sept. 19. It’s also available to rent/purchase on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+. “Challengers” follows the rivalry between tennis pros Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) and Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor), who are vicious competitors on and […]

Daniel Craig delivers a career-best performance in Luca Guadagnino’s romantic drama “Queer,” playing a gay American expat in 1950s Mexico City. The drama, with its explicit love scenes, swept up a packed theater at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night, earning a 9-minute standing ovation. When the applause began, Craig […]

Daniel Craig opened up about filming sex scenes for Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” during its Venice Film Festival press conference, saying he and co-star Drew Starkey “tried to make it fun.” “You know as well as I do, there’s nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set,” Craig said. “We just wanted to […]

Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella “Queer,” which premieres Tuesday in competition at the Venice Film Festival, is his most personal film yet — and one that he’s been dreaming of making for many years. The stars aligned when producer Lorenzo Mieli and Fremantle’s head of literary acquisitions Raffaella de Angelis were […]