There is no doubting just how famous Sydney Sweeneyis now. Her trio of early breakout roles in The Handmaid’s Tale, Sharp Objects, andEverything Sucks!led quickly to the role that would shoot her to superstardom in Euphoria. Earlier this year, Sweeney returned to the once-progressive series for a controversial third season, with much of the backlash leveled against creator Sam Levinson. Nevertheless, Euphoria Season 3 was an enormous streaming success, with the likes of Sweeney, Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, and Jacob Elordiall proving why they have now outgrown the series.
The 28-year-old actress has now featured in some of the biggest movies of the past couple of years, with an impressive Hollywood career still in its early stages. But, as is with all great actors, not every project manages to find its audience. This was the case for Sweeney’s underrated crime thriller Americana, which also featured Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, and Sweeney’s Euphoria cast-mate, the late great Eric Dane.
The film premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest Film Festival, but would have to wait another two years before finally hitting the big screen. Sadly, it seems this delay impacted the film’s appeal, with Americana infamously Sweeney’s biggest box office bomb yet. Against a reported budget of $9 million, the movie was unable to even make $1 million in theaters, despite featuring Sweeney at the height of her fame. A year on, and Americana is bouncing back. At the time of writing, the film is one of the ten most-streamed movies on HBO Max in the world, a list topped by the 2026 fantasy sequel Mortal Kombat II.
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Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
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👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
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Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
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You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
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Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
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The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
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Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
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Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
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A Hotly Anticipated Sydney Sweeney Sequel Is on the Way
It wasn’t all box office disappointment for Sweeney in 2025. Later in the year, she starred opposite Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar in an adaptation of Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel, The Housemaid. The film surprised many by scoring a $400 million haul worldwide against a production budget of just $35 million, with Lionsgate confirming that a sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret, is slated for a December 17, 2027, release. Recently, The Hunting Wives favoriteBrittany Snow was added to the sequel’s cast.
Americana is one of the ten most-streamed movies on HBO Max in the world. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.
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Release Date
August 15, 2025
Runtime
110 minutes
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Director
Tony Tost
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Writers
Tony Tost
Producers
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Aaron L. Gilbert, Michael R. Williams, Terry Dougas, Ali Jazayeri, Jason Cloth, Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis, Steven Thibault, Alex Saks, David Gendron, Jean-Luc De Fanti, Suraj Maraboyina, Bavand Karim
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