{"id":402168,"date":"2026-01-09T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:41:08","slug":"edges-closer-to-beating-a-2025-flop-made-at-668-higher-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402168\/","title":{"rendered":"Edges Closer To Beating A 2025 Flop Made At 668% Higher Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1252782 koimoi-featured-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-housemaid-north-america-box-office-day-20-edges-closer-to-beating-a-2025-flop-made-at-668-higher.jpeg\" alt=\"The Housemaid North America Box Office Day 20 Update\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\"  \/>The Housemaid North America Box Office Day 20 Update (Photo Credit \u2013 Instagram)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Housemaid is showing great hold against the James Cameron helmed Avatar: Fire and Ash at the domestic box office. Sydney Sweeney\u2019s film is closing in on Avatar 3\u2019s dailies and might even outperform it someday. The R-rated thriller is also on track to surpass the domestic haul of this fantasy film, with a budget exceeding its production cost by over seven times. Keep scrolling for the deets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The R-rated thriller has crossed the $100 million milestone at the worldwide box office. It has achieved its break-even target and is now going for the $150 million milestone. It is poised for a strong run at the domestic box office, bringing some relief to Lionsgate, which has been going through a rough patch at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>The Housemaid\u2019s domestic box office collection after 20 days<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lionsgate\u2019s R-rated thriller is currently ranked #3 in the domestic box office. According to the latest numbers provided on Box Office Mojo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koimoi.com\/movie\/the-housemaid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Housemaid<\/a> collected $1.7 million on its 3rd Wednesday at the North American box office. It has a spectacular hold at the domestic box office, dropping by 20.9% only from its last Wednesday. With that, the Sydney Sweeney starrer has hit the $81.4 million cume in North America.<\/p>\n<p>On track to beat Disney\u2019s Snow White domestically<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koimoi.com\/box-office\/top-5-hollywood-studios-of-2025-at-worldwide-box-office-disney-rules-at-1-taking-a-big-lead-over-warner-bros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a>\u2018s Snow White is one of the biggest misses in 2025 at the box office. The film, with an estimated budget of over $269 million, failed miserably at the box office. It collected just $87.2 million during its domestic run, which spanned 77 days. The Amanda Seyfried starrer is now less than $7 million away from surpassing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koimoi.com\/movie\/snow-white\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snow White<\/a>, which has a 668% higher budget. For the record, the Lionsgate thriller was made on a budget of $35 million.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for The Housemaid?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It means a film made for nearly 1\/8th the cost is outperforming a mega-budget studio tentpole. That\u2019s a massive ROI gap and a win for lean filmmaking. It highlights better ROI, lower risk, and stronger efficiency, signals audience fatigue with costly IP remakes, and reinforces that mid-budget films can be more profitable than bloated blockbusters\u2014a major red flag for big-studio spending models. The Housemaid was released on December 19.<\/p>\n<p>Box office summary<\/p>\n<p>North America \u2013 $81.4 million<br \/>\nInternational \u2013 $43.2 million<br \/>\nWorldwide \u2013 $124.6\u00a0million<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Koimoi for more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.koimoi.com\/category\/box-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0box office<\/a>\u00a0updates!<\/p>\n<p>Must Read:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koimoi.com\/box-office\/marty-supreme-north-america-box-office-day-20-scores-biggest-2nd-wednesday-for-a24-beats-anaconda-by-2x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marty Supreme North America Box Office Day 20: Scores Biggest 2nd Wednesday For A24, Beats Anaconda By 2X<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow Us: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/koimoidotcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/koimoi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Koimoi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Koimoi4Bollywood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/s\/CBIwo7yAqUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Google News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Housemaid North America Box Office Day 20 Update (Photo Credit \u2013 Instagram) The Housemaid is showing great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-402168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}