{"id":2145454,"date":"2025-11-10T00:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2145454"},"modified":"2025-11-10T00:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:44:03","slug":"maga-favorite-sydney-sweeneys-new-movie-absolutely-bombs-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maga-favorite-sydney-sweeneys-new-movie-absolutely-bombs-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Favorite Sydney Sweeney\u2019s New Movie Absolutely Bombs at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MAGA favorite <strong>Sydney Sweeney<\/strong> had a feeble opening weekend at the box office for her inspirational boxing film, \u201cChristy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The film was released in just over 2,000 theaters nationwide, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/sydney-sweeneys-christy-worst-wide-box-office-openings-1-3-million-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to<\/a> <em>The Wrap<\/em>, and grossed only $1.3 million \u201cfor a per-theater average of just $649.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That puts it among the top 10 worst openings for a new release, <em>Box Office Mojo<\/em> reported, adding that \u201cthree of the films below it\u201d were \u201creleased during the pandemic period from April 2020 to May 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the film, Sweeney stars as as domestic abuse survivor and pro boxer <strong>Christy Martin<\/strong>, who won the first women\u2019s boxing pay-per-view main event. In 2010, Martin survived a murder attempt by her former coach-turned-husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sweeney reported that she gained 34 pounds in order to develop a boxer\u2019s physique for the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actress came to MAGA\u2019s attention when she posed for an American Eagle jeans ad that touted her \u201cgood genes\u201d in a play on words that outraged some on the far-left over notions of white \u201cgenetic superiority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After conservative pundits played up the left\u2019s disapproval, it came to light that Sweeney is a registered Republican, although she hasn\u2019t said whether she supports <strong>Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When a reporter informed the president of Sweeney\u2019s political affiliation, Trump did not try to hide his delight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOh, now I love her ad!\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump\/watch-as-trump-finds-out-sydney-sweeney-is-registered-republican-oh-now-i-love-her-ad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trump joked.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trump joked.<\/a> \u201cIs that right? Is Sydney Sweeney? You\u2019d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That\u2019s one I wouldn\u2019t have known, but I\u2019m glad you told me that\u2026If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fox News reported that Sweeney fans now want her to run for office, with MAGA podcaster <strong>Benny Johnson<\/strong> telling Fox News\u2019s <strong>Jesse Watters<\/strong>, \u201cShe put the final nail in the coffin of woke. People aren\u2019t doing this anymore\u2026and that\u2019s why people are tweeting today, Jesse, Vance-Sweeney 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI would love it!\u201d Watters exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the clip above via <em>Fox &amp; Friends Weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/maga-favorite-sydney-sweeneys-new-movie-absolutely-bombs-at-the-box-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MAGA Favorite Sydney Sweeney\u2019s New Movie Absolutely Bombs at the Box Office;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MAGA Favorite Sydney Sweeney\u2019s New Movie Absolutely Bombs at the Box Office<\/a> first appeared on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mediaite;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGA favorite Sydney Sweeney had a feeble opening weekend at the box office for her inspirational boxing film, \u201cChristy.\u201d The film was released in just over 2,000 theaters nationwide, according to The Wrap, and grossed only $1.3 million \u201cfor a per-theater average of just $649.\u201d That puts it among the top 10 worst openings for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2145455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[342346,345266,22389,24872,143276,309386],"class_list":["post-2145454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-box-office-mojo","tag-christy-martin","tag-donald-trump","tag-jesse-watters","tag-maga","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MAGA-Favorite-Sydney-Sweeneys-New-Movie-Absolutely-Bombs-at-the.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145456,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145454\/revisions\/2145456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}