Sydney Sweeney’s new film, Christy, opened weakly at the box office, earning just $1.3 million from North American theaters.
The biopic stars the Madame Web actress as boxer Christy Martin, a role many view as Oscar-worthy. Yet reviews are divided: IGN’s review gave it a 7/10, stating, “Sydney Sweeney blazes trails and pulls no punches in a choppy biopic that falters at the finish.”
The R-rated Christy is struggling from day one, pulling in $1.305 million across 2,011 domestic theaters—a per-theater average of only $649, placing it among the poorest openings for a film expanding beyond 2,000 screens.
Its domestic debut underperformed even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s biopic The Smashing Machine, which opened with $5.84 million and was still deemed a disappointment, ultimately finishing with just $11.38 million domestically—a total Christy seems unlikely to reach.
Last week, Sweeney broke her silence on the controversy surrounding her American Eagles jeans campaign, telling GQ she declined to issue a statement because, “I’ve always believed that I’m not here to tell people what to think.” The ad played on the phrase “great genes” with the tagline: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.”
Sweeney has several projects on the horizon, including Euphoria Season 3, the psychological thriller The Housemaid, and The Devil Wears Prada 2. She’s also reportedly set to lead a live-action Gundam film, the adaptation of Split Fiction, and a horror movie based on a viral Reddit post.
This weekend’s top domestic box office draw was Predator: Badlands. Sarah’s Oil, starring Zachary Levi, Naya Desir-Johnson, and Sonequa Martin-Green, earned $4.459 million. Nuremberg brought in $4.1 million, while Die My Love opened with $2.8 million. Christy failed to break into the top ten.
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