Sydney Sweeney Lastly Ends Her 4-Month Field Workplace Hunch With New Psychological Thriller

The Housemaid has already ended Sydney Sweeney’s field workplace stoop. The Anybody However You actor stars reverse Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar within the new Paul Feig thriller, which is customized from the bestselling Freida McFadden novel of the identical title. The December 19 debut of 2025’s The Housemaid comes on the finish of a chronic streak of field workplace disappointments for Sweeney that started in mid-August.

Sweeney’s neo-Western Americana grossed roughly $500,000 towards its reported $9 million funds after debuting on August 15. The following week noticed the debut of her survival thriller Eden, which grossed $2.5 million towards a reported $55 million funds. Her November 7 awards play, the boxing biopic Christy, equally suffered by incomes simply $2 million towards a reported $15 million funds.

Per Lionsgate, as of Saturday morning, The Housemaid is projected to earn a 3-day opening weekend gross between $20 and $21 million on the home field workplace. This may see it debuting at No. 3 behind fellow new releases Avatar: Hearth and Ash ($85-$90 million) and David ($25 million), but it surely has nonetheless immediately damaged the star’s dismal field workplace streak.

The Housemaid may have outgrossed all three of 2025’s different Sydney Sweeney films put collectively by the tip of simply three days. The truth is, it’s going to quadruple their mixed $5 million gross.

One cause for this field workplace turnaround may very well be robust The Housemaid opinions. Critics have given the brand new film a Licensed Recent rating of 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, which marks Sweeney’s greatest rating for any movie since her 2023 crime drama Actuality earned 94%. The Housemaid‘s 91% rating from customers on the Popcornmeter additionally marks the one Verified Sizzling rating for a Sydney Sweeney film.

Whereas Sweeney’s standing as a field workplace draw is being rehabilitated by this new improvement, it stays to be seen how nicely The Housemaid performs by the tip of its run. Its funds was reportedly $35 million, which might place a median film’s estimated break-even level as excessive as $87.5 million.

Nevertheless, it’s a Lionsgate film. The studio is understood for overlaying the vast majority of their films’ budgets with worldwide pre-sales, so its precise break-even level is probably going far decrease.

Plus, it was by no means anticipated to have an explosive opening weekend, because of the truth that it was scheduled to debut on the identical weekend as Avatar: Hearth and Ash, which is the sequel to the primary and third highest-grossing films of all time.

Motion pictures launched in the course of the vacation season in December are inclined to have slow-and-steady progress quite than frontloaded debuts, as evidenced by the truth that Sweeney’s December 2023 hit Anybody However You (which reportedly value $25 million) had a dismal opening weekend of simply $6 million however ultimately climbed to a worldwide complete of $220 million.

The Housemaid will get a further increase when worldwide grosses come pouring in over the weekend, so contemplating all of these elements, it appears extremely probably that it is going to be a hit in and of itself on prime of ending Sweeney’s 2025 stoop.

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