With Oscar Buzz Already Building, Sydney Sweeney's Newest Role Is Exactly What She Needs Right Now

Sydney Sweeneyfrequently tops the trending charts on social media, but her recent double-billing of flops this past August suggests she just might be a celebrity figure and not a movie star. Americana and Eden were both positioned as promising vehicles for Sweeney to prove herself as more than a sex symbol in the public eye. However, both films came and went in theaters, grossing $500K on 1,100 screens and $1 million on their opening weekends, respectively. Of course, these were never intended as blockbusters, but they serve as sobering reminders that social media traction and general pop culture infatuation don't translate to reality, especially for the non-online/middle America audience these films seemed to target.