Sydney Sweeney’s newest film could find yourself being a career-changing enterprise for her.
Paul Feig’s The Housemaid has confirmed to be a significant field workplace hit, grossing practically $295 million worldwide (per The Numbers) to this point on a finances of lower than $50 million. The psychological thriller stars Sweeney as a younger lady with a troubled previous who takes a job as a live-in housekeeper for a rich couple, however finds her relationship with the housewife, performed by Amanda Seyfried, turning into more and more harmful.
The Housemaid is getting nearer to turning into the highest-grossing film of Sweeney’s profession by a number of metrics. Each on the worldwide and home field workplace, As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood is presently Sweeney’s greatest film. Sweeney, nevertheless, has solely a small function within the Finest Image nominee; The Housemaid is already her high film the place she is the lead.
The Housemaid remains to be behind As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, which grossed $377 million worldwide. The Housemaid can also be at $115 million domestically, the place As soon as Upon a Time grossed $142.5 million. The 2025 thriller has handed what was beforehand the most important hit of Sweeney’s main profession by a big margin, with Anybody However You grossing slightly below $220 million worldwide.
In 2025, Sweeney went from three straight flops to this large field workplace hit: Eden, Americana, and Christy all made barely $5 million mixed. Whereas the development could have sown doubt that Sweeney might nonetheless lead a significant field workplace film, The Housemaid undid it all of sudden, setting Sweeney as much as star within the confirmed film adaptation of the sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden.
Sweeney can also be nonetheless a significant TV star, together with her collection Euphoria, led by Zendaya, climbing the streaming charts once more forward of the season 3 premiere. The Housemaid is a fairly well-reviewed thriller with a 73% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes, however in opposition to a 92% Popcormeter, chatting with its attraction being uncritical enjoyable.
ScreenRant‘s overview for The Housemaid stars with: “Do not let anybody make you are feeling responsible about having fun with the pleasures of this deranged adaptation.” The Housemaid remains to be going sturdy on the field workplace and stands to hit a number of extra milestones earlier than it wraps up its theatrical run, which is able to assist Sweeney additional her profession as a film star.
- Launch Date
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December 19, 2025
- Runtime
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131 Minutes
- Director
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Paul Feig
- Writers
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Rebecca Sonnenshine, Freida McFadden
- Producers
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Todd Lieberman, Paul Feig