Sydney Sweeney’s The Housemaid‘s box office overtakes an Oscar Best Picture winner that is remembered for how controversial its victory was. Sweeney stars opposite The Testament of Ann Lee‘s Amanda Seyfried in the new thriller, based on Freida McFadden’s novel of the same name, which has to date grossed approximately $70 million worldwide, on a reported budget of $35 million.
Per Deadline, The Housemaid grossed another $2.155 million Wednesday night, bringing its domestic total up to $56.2 million in its second week in theaters. This puts it above Best Picture winner Crash (which grossed $55.3 million domestically) on the all-time domestic box office charts for movies from Lionsgate, as well as 2007’s Why Did I Get Married? and 2004’s Saw.
Paul Haggis’ Crash premiered in 2005 and was generally well-reviewed, but ended up with an infamous legacy due to its shocking defeat of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture, after Lee won Best Director and the movie won Best Adapted Screenplay. Crash grossed $101 million worldwide and remains in Lionsgate’s top 50 films domestically.
The Housemaid‘s gross was down 49 percent from Tuesday, but it could go back up after New Year’s Eve, which is a general pattern for the box office on specific holidays. The Housemaid is on track to break even and then start turning a profit, based on the rule of thumb that a movie needs to gross two and a half times its budget to technically be a financial success.
The Housemaid was also a much-needed end to Sweeney’s box office slump, as the Euphoria star was in three movies this year that grossed roughly $5 million combined (Eden, Americana, and Christy), while the book-to-movie adaptation earned around $20 million its first weekend alone. Now, The Housemaid could realistically cross the $100 million threshold before the end of its theatrical run.
Meanwhile, co-star Amanda Seyfried is a frontrunner for a Best Lead Actress nomination at the 2026 Oscars for her performance in The Testament of Ann Lee, which saw a limited theatrical release on Christmas Day. Seyfried has also expressed interest in working with Sweeney again, which could bring the latter another box office hit in the future.
The likes of The Housemaid and Crash are just not in the same league as Lionsgate’s top-grossing movies, which are primarily all franchise installments, including Twilight, The Hunger Games, and John Wick. But the distributor is seeing a modest hit with The Housemaid, which has now outperformed a famously disliked entry, and that is something.
- Release Date
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December 19, 2025
- Runtime
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131 Minutes
- Director
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Paul Feig
- Writers
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Rebecca Sonnenshine, Freida McFadden
- Producers
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Todd Lieberman
