
Sydney Sweeney's PR machine scrambled as her boxing biopic Christy opened to near-catastrophic receipts.
The film, which cast Sweeney as the trailblazing boxer Christy Martin, has become an unlikely industry flashpoint. A high-profile release with strong festival notices that yielded a punishing opening weekend and, according to a wave of circulating screenshots, sparked urgent outreach from representatives trying to reframe the narrative.