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 new movie, Christy, has suffered a brutal opening round at the box office with just $1.3 million from North American theaters.

The biopic sees the Madame Web star assume the role of boxer Christy Martin in what many consider to be an Oscar-bait performance. But the critical reception is mixed, with IGN’s Christy review returning a 7/10. We said: “Sydney Sweeney blazes trails and pulls no punches in a choppy biopic that falters at the finish.”

The R-rated Christy, though, is on the ropes right out of the gate, with $1.305 million from 2,011 theaters domestically. That’s a per-theater average (PTA) of just $649, and is one of the worst openings ever for a film in over 2,000 theaters.

It’s an even worse domestic launch than Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s biopic The Smashing Machine, which made $5.84 million from North American theaters during its opening weekend and was considered a disaster. The Smashing Machine ended up with a domestic box office total of just $11.38 million, which Christy looks set to struggle to match.

Last week, Sweeney broke her silence on the American Eagles jeans campaign kerfuffle from earlier this year, telling GQ that she refused to issue a statement in response because “I’ve always believed that I’m not here to tell people what to think.” The advert revolved around a pun on “great genes,” with the tagline: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.”

Sweeney has a number of upcoming projects, including Euphoria Season 3, psychological thriller The Housemaid, and The Devil Wears Prada 2. She’s also reportedly set to star in a live-action Gundam movie, the Split Fiction movie adaptation, and a movie version of a horror story posted on a Reddit thread.

Topping the domestic box office this weekend was Predator: Badlands. Sarah’s Oil starring Zachary Levi, Naya Desir-Johnson, and Sonequa Martin-Green grossed $4.459 million at the domestic box office this weekend. Nuremberg earned $4.1 million. Die My Love opened domestically to $2.8 million. Christy failed to crack the top 10.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.