How Sydney Sweeney's 'Americana' Did at the Box Office Amid AE Controversy

Sydney Sweeney’s latest indie film, Americana, has finally been theatrically released two years after it premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival. The film stars Sweeney as Penny Jo Poplin, a waitress who dreams of becoming a singer. She accidentally becomes part of a gang plot involving a stolen Native American artifact, causing a cascading web of crime in her South Dakota town. The Tony Tost-directed crime thriller made an estimated $500,000 across 1,100 theaters on its opening weekend of August 15, 2025. Recent headlines surrounding Sweeney’s American Eagle controvers