Sydney Sweeney’s New Sports activities Biopic Continues Disappointing 2025 Field Workplace Streak

Christy is about to proceed a disappointing streak for star Sydney Sweeney. The film options the Anybody However You star enjoying real-life boxing champion Christy Martin reverse a solid that features Ben Foster, Katy O’Brian, Ethan Embry, Jess Gabor, and Merritt Wever. Christy opinions have been middling, incomes the film a 66% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Christy is projected to earn a 3-day debut of $1.25 million from 2,814 theaters on the home field workplace. This sees it set to debut at No. 11 behind Tron: Ares. Whereas it might probably surge on Saturday and break into the High 10 by the top of the weekend, it nonetheless continues a disappointing field workplace streak for Sydney Sweeney.

It’s because Christy is the star’s third 2025 film in a row to debut with a 3-day complete beneath $2 million. The earlier Sydney Sweeney films to take action had been the Ron Howard survival thriller Eden (which debuted with $1.05 million in 664 theaters) and the neo-Western crime thriller Americana (which debuted with roughly $500,000 in 1,100 theaters).

Whereas these 2025 titles haven’t obtained large releases as sturdy as a few of Sweeney’s earlier theatrical outings, that is a part of an overarching downturn within the field workplace for the star since she scored a serious hit with 2023’s Anybody However You. That romantic comedy, which additionally starred Glen Powell, grossed a whopping $220.3 million in opposition to a reported price range of simply $25 million.

Nonetheless, her follow-up theatrical launch, the 2024 superhero tentpole Madame Net, was a flop, grossing simply $100.5 million in opposition to its reported price range of $100 million. She adopted this with the 2024 horror film Immaculate, which grossed $35 million, although that was a a lot better haul in comparison with that film’s reported $9 million price range.

Whereas Christy continues this unfavourable development, the truth that it’s her highest-grossing debut of the 12 months up to now is an effective signal. It’s extremely probably that the Euphoria star will probably be on an upswing on the field workplace earlier than lengthy, as a result of she stars within the upcoming The Housemaid, which debuts in theaters on December 19.

The thriller from director Paul Feig (A Easy Favor) additionally stars Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. Whereas the final word destiny of Christy stays to be seen, the truth that The Housemaid has a star-studded solid and crew and is predicated on a bestselling novel by Freida McFadden signifies that Sydney Sweeney’s interval of field workplace doldrums might finish earlier than 2025 attracts to an in depth.

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