{"id":90520,"date":"2025-08-17T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90520\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:47:06","slug":"sydney-sweeney-crime-film-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90520\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Crime Film Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney Sweeney<\/a> has gone from American Eagle flap to Americana<\/a> flop. Weeks after the Euphoria<\/a>\u00a0actor\u2019s AE jeans ads sparked controversy<\/a>, her film Americana has bombed at the box office.<\/p>\n

Americana opened to an estimated $500,000 from 1,123 theaters in its nationwide debut this weekend, ranking 16th in the domestic box office, per T<\/a>he Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. By contrast, Sweeney\u2019s 2023 rom-com, Anyone But You<\/a>, opened to $6 million on its way to a domestic haul of more than $88 million, according to The Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for Americana\u2019s competition, Weapons<\/a> continued ruling the box office with an estimated $25 million from 3,450 theaters in its second weekend, THR adds. Freakier Friday<\/a> came in second place in its second weekend with an estimated $14.5 million from 3,975 theaters. And Nobody 2<\/a> came in third with $9.3 million from 3,260 theaters in its box office debut.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Tony Tost (Poker Face<\/a>) in his film debut, Americana is a crime thriller in which outsiders and outcasts clash in a small South Dakota town after a rare Lakota ghost shirt hits the black market. Sweeney joins Paul Walter Hauser<\/a>, Halsey<\/a>, Zahn McClarnon<\/a>, and Euphoria costar Eric Dane<\/a> in the pic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Americana has had a long journey to its theatrical debut. Sweeney and other costars joined the film\u2019s cast more than three years ago, in February 2022; Americana premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival; and Lionsgate acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film in March 2024.<\/p>\n

Despite the dismal box-office results, Lionsgate argues it has a multi-platform strategy for Americana, including a premium video-on-demand release, and that the $500k opening frame is \u201cin no way a disappointment, financial or otherwise,\u201d THR adds.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, Americana has favorable reviews: It currently boasts a Metascore of 61 on Metacritic<\/a> and a Tomatometer score of 68 on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. \u201cTold in five chapters and across multiple storylines, Tost\u2019s first feature is an admirably weird and engaging odyssey that\u2019s like Tarantino<\/a> meets The Sugarland Express<\/a> (with a healthy dose of Smokey and the Bandit<\/a>),\u201d Rolling Stone<\/a>\u2019s Marlow Stern said in one review. \u201cIt\u2019s brimming with ideas and winning turns, in particular Sweeney and Hauser, whose romantic chemistry is terribly endearing, and McClarnon as the deadpan-hilarious face of anti-colonialist vengeance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Americana\u2019s opening comes in the fallout of Sweeney\u2019s ads for American Eagle, which plays on \u201cjeans\u201d and \u201cgenes\u201d being homophones and says the actor\u2019s \u201cblue\u201d genes\/jeans are \u201cgreat.\u201d Critics dinged the ads as echoing Nazi eugenics and white supremacy; critics of the criticism cited the backlash as an example of \u201cwoke\u201d politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney has gone from American Eagle flap to Americana flop. Weeks after the Euphoria\u00a0actor\u2019s AE jeans ads…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-90520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}