One shock hit film can nonetheless supercharge an actor’s trajectory.
In December 2023, Sydney Sweeney starred with Glen Powell in Anybody However You, Sony Photos’ romantic comedy that turned an unabashed field workplace success, making $220 million on a finances of $25 million. Sweeney’s price for the film was $2 million for the movie.
Lower than a 12 months later, in October, Sweeney nabbed a $7.5 million payday to star in The Housemaid, a Lionsgate thriller that may also star Amanda Seyfried and be directed by Paul Feig, a number of sources inform The Hollywood Reporter.
It’s a notable soar that’s not too widespread in fashionable Hollywood, the place massive hits have a tendency to come back from franchise performs and, A-list actors apart, pay jumps are available in pre-negotiated increments. However Sweeney has develop into one of the crucial in-demand actresses, and has capitalized by lining up a savvy vary of flicks, together with a boxing biopic and a Hollywood interval drama trying on the affair between Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.
A part of the price soar components within the huge backend income Sweeney constituted of Anybody However You, which is alleged to be within the tens of millions. She additionally earned a $250,000 government producing price, in accordance with sources.
The actress was additionally key in getting the film made. One supply says Sweeney agreed to first shoot a supporting function in Madame Net, a part of Sony’s Spider-Man-centric universe of movies, as approach to assist Anybody However You get the greenlight. “She wished them to know she was a workforce participant,” says a supply, of Sony Photos.
Though the much-maligned Madame Net bombed, Sweeney nonetheless made out all proper, making $750,000 on that image.
Earlier than capturing Anybody However You and Madame Net she shot Actuality, a biopic wherein she starred as whistleblower Actuality Winner. It was an indie drama that was picked up by HBO and launched on Max simply over half a 12 months earlier than the breakthrough rom-com. Sweeney was paid $65,000 for that one, in accordance with insiders.
And for Immaculate, a horror film launched in March by Neon, she acquired $250,000, though she was additionally a producer on the thriller.
Sweeney, due to the Housemaid deal, is now one of many highest-paid actresses of her technology. The benchmark seems to be her Euphoria co-star Zendaya, who reportedly earned $10 million for starring and producing the tennis drama Challengers.
This story first appeared within the Oct. 30 problem of The Hollywood Reporter journal. To obtain the journal, click on right here to subscribe.