It’s laborious to disclaim that Sydney Sweeney has some massive issues in entrance of her, however back-to-back field workplace bombs have been in all probability not a part of the plan for 2025. Whereas Sweeney discovered large success with the sleeper hit Anybody However You, pushed alongside by a flurry of tabloid headlines about her attainable real-life romantic hyperlink with main man Glen Powell, and likewise had sturdy performances within the creepy horror film Immaculate and, in fact, her position within the HBO Max collection Euphoria, her current run of films has not fairly been something to shout about. Add in some social media controversy over her bathtub water and the state of her denims, and the 12 months has in all probability not panned out fairly as anticipated for the younger actress.
Within the final two weeks, Sweeney has appeared in Americana, an impartial crime thriller that includes Sweeney alongside Halsey, Eric Dane, and Paul Walter Hauser, which has waited two years to make it to cinemas, and Ron Howard’s historic survival thriller, Eden, which options Jude Regulation, Ana de Armas, and Vanessa Kirby. Efficiency-wise, Americana barely made any mark on the field workplace with underneath $500,000 in ticket gross sales, sinking as one of many worst-performing motion pictures of the 12 months. This was adopted by Eden’s launch this weekend to the tune of simply $1.9 million regardless of a $50 million finances.
It is usually value noting that whereas Sweeney’s 2024 hit Immaculate is the one factor standing between her and a triple-flop state of affairs, as only a month previous to that movie Sony launched the infamous Madame Internet. Whereas the Marvel film’s issues have been many, Sweeney’s joint lead position places it in the identical enviornment as Eden, which comes with an ensemble solid however has did not seize the eye of audiences.
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Discounting the disastrous 10% critic’s rating that Madame Internet was pinned with, each Americana and Eden have been effectively obtained by audiences and weren’t full write-offs for critics. The one downside is that not many individuals are literally watching them.
Americana fared better of the bunch with a 67% Tomatometer rating and 77% Popcornmeter score, suggesting that there’s nothing improper with the film aside from its place as a really small film in a big pond of studio movies with huge advertising budgets. Whereas some even recommended the film had suffered as a result of current backlash towards Sweeney for her look in a denims marketing campaign for American Eagle, her costar Halsey lately referred to as out these boycotting “an distinctive movie” over some “24-hour gossip tabloid denim bullsh-t.”
Eden didn’t fairly discover the identical quantity of affection from critics, with a 55% rating and a number of other value determinations calling the film a “campy, elongated episode of Survivor.” Audiences have been as soon as once more happier with the outcome, gifting Howard’s film a 72% score. Nonetheless, the dismal field workplace – particularly in gentle of Weapons’ $15 million haul on its third weekend – is proof that generally it takes quite a lot of recognizable names to get audiences into theaters.
Sweeney’s subsequent film may probably be each one among her best achievements however one other field workplace struggler on the similar time. Christy is a biographical film in regards to the lifetime of former skilled boxer Christy Martin. Sweeney underwent a whole transformation to play the title position, and there are a number of whispers of Oscar nominations already within the air. Nonetheless, sports activities biographies don’t all the time ship the most important field workplace wins, and this September Sweeney’s hat-trick of flops may seal an unexpectedly poor 12 months for one among Hollywood’s brightest stars.
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Americana
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August 15, 2025
- Runtime
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110 minutes
- Director
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Tony Tost
- Writers
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Tony Tost
- Producers
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Aaron L. Gilbert, Michael R. Williams, Terry Dougas, Ali Jazayeri, Jason Fabric, Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis, Steven Thibault, Alex Saks, David Gendron, Jean-Luc De Fanti, Suraj Maraboyina, Bavand Karim
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Eden
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August 22, 2025
- Runtime
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120 minutes
- Writers
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Noah Pink
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Brian Grazer, Karen Lunder, Patrick Newall, Stuart Ford
