It\u2019s been a good weekend for \u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d at the box office, but quite the opposite for \u201cChristy,\u201d the new inspirational boxing film starring one of social media\u2019s most hotly discussed actors, Sydney Sweeney.<\/p>\n
Released in 2,011 theaters, \u201cChristy\u201d grossed only $1.3 million for a per-theater average of just $649. According to Box Office Mojo<\/a>, it ranks among the top 10 worst openings for a new release on more than 2,000 screens, with three of the films below it being released during the pandemic period from April 2020 to May 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cChristy\u201d stars Sweeney as Christy Martin, who in the 90s became the winner of the first women\u2019s boxing pay-per-view main event and the first true female superstar in the sport. In 2010, she survived a murder attempt by her former coach and husband and has since become an advocate for survivors of domestic violence.<\/p>\n It is the first film distributed in the U.S. by Black Bear Pictures, the production studio behind films like \u201cThe Imitation Game,\u201d \u201cMudbound\u201d and \u201cSing Sing.\u201d Along with production and sales, Black Bear began wading into film distribution in 2023 by handling the U.K. release of films like \u201cDumb Money\u201d and \u201cConclave.\u201d<\/p>\n Critics\u2019 reviews for \u201cChristy\u201d have skewed positive but haven\u2019t been exceptional with a 66% Rotten Tomatoes score. And while Sweeney herself is still riding the wave of fame from her breakout movies \u201cAnyone But You\u201d and \u201cImmaculate,\u201d that hasn\u2019t translated to any interest in her latest film.<\/p>\n Nor has her recent press tour for \u201cChristy\u201d moved the needle, instead drawing the conversation around Sweeney towards other topics. In her cover story interview with GQ <\/a>released this past Tuesday, it\u2019s noted that Sweeney has dodged questions throughout the press tour regarding her jeans ad for American Eagle that came with the tagline \u201cSydney Sweeney has great jeans.\u201d<\/p>\n The ad angered some on TikTok, drawing accusations that the campaign had a pro-eugenics undertone. The Trump Administration only added fuel to the fire when it came to Sweeney\u2019s defense on social media.<\/p>\n After a discussion of \u201cChristy\u201d with GQ, Sweeney briefly talked about the ad and its reaction, calling the White House\u2019s defense of her \u201csurreal\u201d but noting that she had largely ignored the social media furor as she was filming the third season of HBO\u2019s \u201cEuphoria\u201d at the time and did not bring her phone on set.<\/p>\n \u201cI did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I\u2019m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n It was a brief comment in a long interview in which she talked extensively about \u201cChristy,\u201d but it was the only comment from the GQ interview that got any traction on social media. It was similar to a recent interview Adam Driver did with the Associated Press<\/a> for the New York Film Festival premiere of Jim Jarmusch\u2019s \u201cFather Mother Sister Brother\u201d in which the only portion that got significant attention on social media was Driver discussing a rejected pitch for a \u201cStar Wars\u201d film that he brought to Disney with Steven Soderbergh.<\/p>\n Between a lack of major studio support and substantial word-of-mouth as well as its lead star beingunable to steer the public conversation around her to her work rather than her perceived place in the culture war, \u201cChristy\u201d is being left by the wayside in what is shaping up to be a very competitive end-of-year theatrical marketplace.<\/p>\n As for Sweeney, she will likely have better box office results with Lionsgate\u2019s upcoming thriller \u201cThe Housemaid,\u201d which hits theaters this December. She will also appear in the upcoming sequel to \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada,\u201d due out this May.<\/p>\n The post Sydney Sweeney\u2019s \u2018Christy\u2019 Ranks Among Worst Wide Box Office Openings With $1.3 Million Weekend<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a good weekend for \u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d at the box office, but quite the opposite for \u201cChristy,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[177719,145340,21216,171,177720,53,345,21218,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-367960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-black-bear-pictures","9":"tag-box-office-mojo","10":"tag-christy-martin","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gq","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-social-media","15":"tag-sydney-sweeney","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115522445374063875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}