The Housemaid has set a box office record for star Sydney Sweeney. The new thriller, directed by Paul Feig, follows the desperate parolee Millie (Sweeney), who gets a last-chance housemaid job with a rich couple (Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar), who turn out to be hiding dark secrets. The Housemaid reviews have earned the movie a Certified Fresh 73% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Per Deadline, as of Friday night, The Housemaid has surpassed the $88.3 million domestic box office total of Sydney Sweeney’s 2023 romantic comedy Anyone But You amid its fourth weekend in theaters, during which Housemaid is expected to eventually hit a cumulative domestic total of $94.6 million.
This is impressive in and of itself, because Anyone But You was a smash hit, grossing $220.3 million against a $25 million budget. However, by outgrossing it in North America, 2025’s The Housemaid has become the highest-grossing Sydney Sweeney-led movie of all time at the domestic box office.
The only other movie to feature Sydney Sweeney in any capacity that has outgrossed The Housemaid at the domestic box office is Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which grossed $142.5 million in domestic theaters and $377.4 million worldwide in 2019.
Sydney Sweeney is 27th billed in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood for her role as the Manson Family member “Snake.”
It remains to be seen if The Housemaid will be able to outgross Anyone But You worldwide. While it is set to pass the $150 million milestone worldwide this weekend, the Sydney Sweeney movies are behaving differently overseas so far. While Anyone But You earned 59.9% of its grosses internationally, The Housemaid has only gotten 36.9% of its current worldwide total from those markets.
However, The Housemaid has had a slow international rollout and has yet to open in several major markets. Therefore, it still has a strong chance to outgross Anyone But You worldwide by the end of its run, especially in the wake of its titanic performance in North America.
It is somewhat unclear how high it can climb, because <em>The Housemaid</em> is performing very similarly to <em>Anyone But You</em>. Both titles were Christmas season releases with inauspicious debuts (the former debuted at No. 3 with $19 million while the latter debuted at No. 4 with a paltry $6 million), and both took advantage of the slow and steady audience holds that are typical for the holiday season.
While The Housemaid hasn’t had the massive growth that Anyone But You did (the 2023 movie’s week-on-week grosses rose 45.9% and 11.4% during its second and third weekends), it has had impressively slim drops (19.5% and 1.4% so far), which are still benefitting it thanks to having a stronger opening than the 2023 hit.
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