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After her film Americana made just $500,000 at the box office during its opening weekend on August 15, Sydney Sweeney’s latest movie Eden has also tanked. Eden reportedly made just $1 million in its debut weekend.
According to reports, the Ron Howard-directed Eden — which also stars Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Jude Law and Daniel Bruhl alongside Sydney Sweeney — made just $1 million in its debut weekend. Eden opened in 664 theaters across the United States on August 11.
Eden is based on the true story of European settlers who fled Germany after World War I and settled on Floreana Island, in the Galápagos Islands, where they tried to build their own society.
Sydney Sweeney’s new movie Eden bomb as the box office, makes just $1 million in opening weekend
“Eden took eight months before it finally found a U.S. distribution deal with Vertical with no minimum guarantee paid. Lionsgate at one point was interested, and liked the movie, but had their own Sweeney movie in Americana. Vertical was willing to make a low-single-digit millions P&A commitment on Eden with a distribution fee in the low- to mid-teens. The pic is on a 30-day exclusive theatrical window before Premium VOD and an awards campaign is being mulled.” [via Deadline]
The release of Americana and Eden come at an interesting time for Sweeney as the actress has recently been at the center of a culture war following the rollout of American Eagle’s “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” ad campaign. After a vocal minority on social media claimed that the ads were promoting “eugenics,” right-wing politicians such as Ted Cruz and Donald Trump latched onto the discourse.
Later this year, Sweeney will be starring in the Christy Martin biopic Chirsty, which will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, and The Housemaid, an adaptation of the best selling thriller novel directed by Paul Feig and co-starring Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Skelnar.
Sweeney also has a bevy of projects lined up in the coming years, such as Edgar Wright’s Barbarella, a live-action adaptation of the hit anime Gundam, OutRun directed by Michael Bay, I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl, and more.