Sydney Sweeney’s Smash Hit Anybody However You Has Its International Field Workplace Document Damaged By Her New Thriller

The Housemaid has smashed an necessary field workplace file for Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney. The Housemaid film, which was directed by Paul Feig and adapts the bestselling Freida McFadden thriller of the identical title, follows parolee Millie (Sweeney) getting a job as a housemaid for wealthy couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar) solely to find that they’re hiding darkish secrets and techniques.

Per Selection, as of Sunday morning, The Housemaid is projected to finish its fifth weekend in theaters by hitting a cumulative international whole of $247.3 million. That quantity includes $108.7 million from the home field workplace and an extra $138.6 million from worldwide markets.

This whole sees The Housemaid usurping the worldwide haul of 2023’s Anybody However You ($220.3 million) to turn out to be the highest-grossing film that includes Sydney Sweeney in a lead function. The one different Sydney Sweeney film with the next worldwide gross is the Quentin Tarantino drama As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood ($377.4 million), by which she performed a minor function because the Manson Member of the family Snake.

The Housemaid has additionally surpassed 2015’s Spy ($233.8 million worldwide) to turn out to be the second highest-grossing film directed by Paul Feig. To this point, it has solely fallen behind his 2011 comedy megahit Bridesmaids ($289.6 million), although it nonetheless has the potential to outgross that Oscar-nominated smash by the tip of its run.

This huge international success comes on the finish of an extended string of theatrical disappointments for Sweeney. Whereas Anybody However You was a record-breaking sleeper hit, Sweeney motion pictures largely failed to attach with audiences within the wake of her 2024 Marvel flop Madame Net, which grossed $100.5 million towards a reported price range of $80 million and gained three Razzie Awards.

In 2025 alone, her film disappointments included the Ron Howard survival thriller Eden ($2.5 million), the boxing biopic Christy ($2.1 million), and the crime comedy Americana ($500,000). Nevertheless, her new film has turned that unfavourable field workplace streak round.

It has additionally almost certainly set Sydney Sweeney on a course for extra constant theatrical success sooner or later. It’s because the sequel teased by the ending of The Housemaid has already been greenlit, giving the star one other promising lead function that will likely be hitting theaters quickly.

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