After off-screen drama threatened to consume Olivia Wilde's "Don't Worry Darling," the Warner Bros. release opened at No. 1 at the North American box office with $19.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday (Monday in Manila).
Starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, "Don't Worry Darling" was engulfed by a storm of controversies that revolved around everything from Pugh's allegedly strained relationship with Wilde to whether Styles might have even spit on co-star Chris Pine at the film's premiere during the recent Venice International Film Festival (Styles denied it.) The movie, too, was torched by critics (38 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and arrived in theaters with more baggage than any recent release.
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