Sydney Sweeney's New Movie on the Ropes as Christy Takes Just $1.3M From Over 2,000 Theaters at the Box Office

Sydney Sweeney’s caller movie, Christy, has suffered a brutal opening circular astatine the container bureau with conscionable $1.3 cardinal from North American theaters.

The biopic sees the Madame Web prima presume the relation of boxer Christy Martin successful what galore see to beryllium an Oscar-bait performance. But the captious reception is mixed, with IGN’s Christy reappraisal returning a 7/10. We said: “Sydney Sweeney blazes trails and pulls nary punches successful a choppy biopic that falters astatine the finish.”

The R-rated Christy, though, is connected the ropes close retired of the gate, with $1.305 cardinal from 2,011 theaters domestically. That’s a per-theater mean (PTA) of conscionable $649, and is 1 of the worst openings ever for a movie successful implicit 2,000 theaters.

It’s an adjacent worse home motorboat than Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s biopic The Smashing Machine, which made $5.84 cardinal from North American theaters during its opening play and was considered a disaster. The Smashing Machine ended up with a home container bureau full of conscionable $11.38 million, which Christy looks acceptable to conflict to match.

Last week, Sweeney broke her soundlessness connected the American Eagles jeans run kerfuffle from earlier this year, telling GQ that she refused to contented a connection successful effect due to the fact that “I’ve ever believed that I’m not present to archer radical what to think.” The advert revolved astir a pun connected “great genes,” with the tagline: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.”

Sweeney has a fig of upcoming projects, including Euphoria Season 3, intelligence thriller The Housemaid, and The Devil Wears Prada 2. She's besides reportedly acceptable to prima successful a live-action Gundam movie, the Split Fiction movie adaptation, and a movie mentation of a fearfulness communicative posted connected a Reddit thread.

Topping the home container bureau this play was Predator: Badlands. Sarah’s Oil starring Zachary Levi, Naya Desir-Johnson, and Sonequa Martin-Green grossed $4.459 cardinal astatine the home container bureau this weekend. Nuremberg earned $4.1 million. Die My Love opened domestically to $2.8 million. Christy failed to ace the apical 10.

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