Sydney Sweeney's New Thriller Hits Worldwide Box Office Milestone That Is Almost Unprecedented

The Housemaid has hit a remarkable box office milestone. The Housemaid movie, which is an adaptation of the bestselling Freida McFadden thriller of the same name, was directed by Paul Feig and stars Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, and Brandon Sklenar. It debuted at No. 3 at the domestic box office the weekend before Christmas, but has had slow and steady growth thanks to minuscule week-on-week drops.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, The Housemaid is projected to hit a cumulative total of roughly $150 million worldwide by the end of its fourth weekend in theaters. This total comprises $93 million from the domestic box office and an additional $57 million from international markets, where it is still being rolled out.

In addition to far outgrossing Paul Feig's previous theatrical thriller A Simple Favor, which grossed $97.6 million worldwide in 2018, 2025's The Housemaid is set to become the rare English-language thriller to hit the $150 million milestone worldwide.

While this milestone has been hit by quite a few movies that blend the thriller genre with other genres and subgenres including action (Bullet Train), sci-fi (Blade Runner 2049), disaster (Twisters), and heist (Now You See Me: Now You Don't), the most recent pure thriller in the English language to hit that milestone was the controversial trafficking movie Sound of Freedom in 2023.

Before Sound of Freedom grossed $250.7 million worldwide, an English-language thriller hadn't passed $150 million since before the pandemic, when 2019 movies including Joker ($1.079 billion) and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood ($377.4 million) climbed the charts.

In addition to hitting this milestone, the Sydney Sweeney movie has accomplished a great deal during the 24 days it has been in theaters. This includes becoming the domestic box office's highest-grossing movie featuring Sweeney in a lead role (surpassing her 2023 smash hit Anyone But You) and Paul Feig's highest-grossing non-comedy movie of all time (outgrossing A Simple Favor).

It has also become a mega-hit on the scale of its budget level. It reportedly cost $35 million to make, which would place the average Hollywood movie's estimated break-even point somewhere around $87.5 million. While it has already nearly doubled that number, the fact that it is a Lionsgate movie gives it an advantage.

The studio is known for covering the majority of their budgets with international pre-sales, which would shrink that break-even point considerably. Therefore, The Housemaid was turning out pure profit long before passing this impressive worldwide milestone.

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