{"id":377413,"date":"2026-04-06T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377413\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:06:13","slug":"the-drama-ruins-zendayas-box-office-hot-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377413\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drama ruins Zendaya\u2019s box office hot streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zendaya\u2019s newest movie has ended her eight-year streak of dominating the box office during opening weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Drama<\/a>, starring the 29-year-old Euphoria star alongside Robert Pattinson, debuted at the third spot in the domestic chart over Easter weekend, marking the first Zendaya<\/a> movie to not jump to the top spot upon release since her animated movie Smallfoot in 2018.<\/p>\n

All six of Zendaya\u2019s feature films released between Smallfoot\u2019s premiere and The Drama \u2014 Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), Dune: Part One (2021), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024) and Challengers (2024) \u2014 debuted at number one during their respective opening weekends.<\/p>\n

Kristoffer Borgli\u2019s dark comedy did well for an A24 movie and made out with $14.4 million, which surpasses the studio\u2019s 2025 rom-com Materialists. However, it was not enough to beat out Ryan Gosling\u2019s space epic Project Hail Mary, which landed in second place during its third weekend behind the opening for the record-breaking The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.<\/a><\/p>\n

The animated sequel recorded the biggest opening day of the year at the box office Friday with $48.3 million domestically and is set to become the highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2026 so far.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RobertRobert Pattinson and Zendaya star in \u2018The Drama\u2019 by director Kristoffer Borgli (A24)\"\u2018Super\u2018Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u2019 landed the top box office spot during its opening weekend (AP)<\/p>\n

After Project Hail Mary brought in a domestic opening weekend of $80.5 million<\/a> last month, making the biggest of the year at that point, the movie was surpassed when the Super Mario Galaxy Movie soared to a massive $130.9 million in the three-day holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

The first Mario Bros. Movie hit theaters over the same Easter weekend in 2023 and boasted a three-day weekend win of $147 million, one of the best showing of all time for a holiday.<\/p>\n

Although The Drama did not catch up to its competitors in ticket sales, the dark comedy has become a popular topic of discourse surrounding its release due to a controversial plot twist that saw it condemned by critics <\/a>before it even hit theaters.<\/p>\n

\"ZendayaZendaya stars in ‘The Drama,’ which opened on Easter weekend with a $14 million domestic box office haul (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The movie, which is produced by Hereditary\u2019s Ari Aster, stars Zendaya and Pattinson as an engaged couple who question their relationship after Zendaya\u2019s character Emma reveals a dark secret<\/a>. The film also stars Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Hailey Benton Gates and Zo\u00eb Winters.<\/p>\n

Zendaya will have a chance to restart her hot streak with her next film appearances on the docket \u2014 two of which also coincidentally star Pattinson. <\/p>\n

Her next movie to hit theaters will be Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey in July before Spider-Man: Brand New Day releases two weeks later. Then in December, she\u2019ll join Pattinson <\/a>and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet in Dune: Part Three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-377413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}