Sydney Sweeney's 2025 Box Office Disaster Has Officially Become a Sleeper Hit on Streaming

With her 2025 starring vehicle Christy, Sydney Sweeney made a conscious effort to prove herself as a serious, possibly Oscar-nominated actress. If other Sweeney-starring movies like Immaculate and Anyone But You were suggesting her genre and rom-com bona fides, Christy proved she could work in the sports biopic genre, complete with a full-body transformation and “de-glamming” of her traditional blonde bombshell persona. Sweeney put on serious muscle to play the real-life boxer Christy Salters Martin, training for over three months, according to Cinema Daily US. Christy underperformed massively, making just over $2 million globally per Box Office Mojo. But there's more to the streaming hit than bad returns at the box office.