Sydney Sweeney appeared to be hovering final yr, with motion pictures akin to Anybody However You and Immaculate scoring robust opinions and respectable field workplace outcomes. Nevertheless, her latest run has been something however profitable in monetary phrases, as this weekend’s launch of Christy is predicted to be the actress’ third film to make lower than $2 million on its opening weekend.
Christy is a biopic of feminine boxing champion Christy Martin, which additionally stars Ben Foster, Katy O’Brian, Jess Gabor, Ethan Embry, and Merritt Wever. The movie has floundered with critics, incomes a 66% rating on Rotten Tomatoes regardless of receiving Oscar buzz months earlier than its launch. Nevertheless, audiences have been extremely optimistic about Sweeney’s “phenomenal” efficiency…there simply haven’t been an terrible lot of individuals really going to see the film.
The principle challenge with Christy is that it isn’t a film with mass attraction, and meaning there might be lots of people pleased to skip the theater journey and look ahead to the movie to reach on streaming within the subsequent few months. That’s the nice downside going through cinemas proper now, with motion pictures like Christy not having the form of pull required to get audiences into cinemas when streaming releases come so rapidly afterward.
‘Christy’ Is One other Knockout Blow to Sweeney’s Field Workplace Charms
In 2023, Sydney Sweeney gave the impression to be prepared to essentially escape within the business. Whereas she had appeared in huge TV exhibits like Euphoria, her film attain had been low-key. Nevertheless, the discharge of her frisky comedy Anybody However You landed an enormous $218.9 million haul. That was adopted by the finally disappointing Madame Net – though it’s arduous for anybody responsible the disastrous field workplace of Sony’s Marvel film on Sweeney – and the extra spectacular horror film Immaculate in 2024. The latter film opened with a $5 million weekend, and grossed $35 million on the again of a $9 million funds.
Nevertheless, after this, her subsequent theatrical releases, Americana and Ron Howard’s Eden turned field workplace disasters. Americana, which additionally had a $9 million funds, made lower than $500,000 on the field workplace. If that was not dangerous sufficient, Eden adopted virtually instantly and turned its $35 million funds right into a $2.5 million return. Now, Christy has made it three in a row, with the movie anticipated to make simply $1.25 million over the weekend.
Sweeney’s yr has additionally been marred by controversy over her collaboration with American Eagle denims, one thing that within the final week has resurfaced when the actress ducked questions in regards to the outrage over the advert marketing campaign. Then there was her bathwater-infused cleaning soap launch, which simply introduced extra negativity to the actress on-line.
Sweeney is now seeking to spherical out the yr with a field workplace win when The Housemaid is launched in December. Starring Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar, the Paul Feig film has one main hurdle in that it’s going up in opposition to James Cameron’s mighty Avatar: Hearth and Ash. It isn’t arduous to see how that battle goes to finish, however hopefully the film can provide audiences another they’ll elevate past Sweeney’s latest motion pictures and cease her doing a join 4 of field workplace failures.
- Launch Date
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November 7, 2025
- Runtime
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135 minutes
- Director
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David Michôd
- Producers
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Brent Stiefel, Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Sydney Sweeney, Teddy Schwarzman, John Friedberg, Michael Heimler, Justin Lothrop, Brad Zimmerman, David Levine
