New Sydney Sweeney Thriller Shut To Turning into Her First New Film To Outgross Marvel Flop Madame Net

The Housemaid is poised to develop into considered one of Sydney Sweeney’s highest-grossing films. The brand new Paul Feig thriller, which relies on the Freida McFadden bestseller of the identical title, stars Sweeney as Millie Calloway, a down-on-her-luck parolee who will get a job as a housemaid for wealthy couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar), solely to find that their seemingly good life is only a facade.

The Housemaid film debuted on December 19, making it the ultimate Sydney Sweeney launch of the 12 months. She had beforehand starred in a string of smaller 2025 releases with disappointing field workplace returns, particularly Americana ($500,000), Eden ($2.5 million), and Christy ($2.1 million).

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, The Housemaid is projected to earn a 3-day complete of $13.8 million by the tip of its third weekend on the home field workplace. This marks a slender week-on-week drop of simply 10%. To check, the James Cameron blockbuster Avatar: Fireplace and Ash, which premiered on the identical day, is predicted to drop 43% this weekend.

This weekend will push The Housemaid‘s cumulative home gross to $74.6 million and its cumulative international gross previous $82 million. Whereas that complete shall be even larger as soon as its worldwide grosses are tabulated on Sunday, it’s already set to move the foremost $80 million international milestone.

In doing so, 2025’s The Housemaid is closing in on the $100.3 million international gross of 2024’s Madame Net to develop into Sydney Sweeney’s highest-grossing new film since her 2023 smash hit Anybody Purchase You grossed a whopping $218.9 million worldwide. As a result of vacation season releases are likely to have sluggish and regular development relatively than frontloaded theatrical runs, that $100 million milestone is effectively inside Housemaid‘s capabilities.

Whereas Madame Net was an out-and-out field workplace bomb, the film was hampered by its reported $100 million finances. The Housemaid has a a lot tidier reported finances of simply $35 million.

Moreover, whereas that price ticket would place a mean film’s estimated break-even level round $87.5 million, The Housemaid is a Lionsgate launch, and the studio is understood for offsetting giant parts of their budgets with worldwide presales. Subsequently, the Sydney Sweeney film has seemingly already turned a revenue even with out outgrossing Madame Net.

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