Sydney Sweeney’s latest film, “Christy,” suffered one of the worst opening weekends for a new movie released “wide” — on more than 2,000 theaters — in the past 20 years, and industry analysts, the film’s studio and Sweeney herself are left to wonder why it failed so miserably.

After all, Sweeney is one of the most famous and hyped young actors working right now. “Christy,” in which she stars as Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin, was supposed to showcase her acting talents and maybe garner her an Academy Award nomination. But, audiences clearly were not interested.

Over on r/boxoffice , a sub-Reddit community focused on discussions about movies’ box-office performance, some people said the distributor didn’t do enough to promote “Christy,” which only earned $1.3 million over the weekend

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