Sydney Sweeney enjoys HUGE seven-figure pay raise after box office smash Anyone But You

Sydney Sweeney is reportedly enjoying a huge pay jump following the smash success of her 2023 rom-com Anyone But You.

While Sweeney's fee for the film was $2 million, she is now commanding millions more for her next film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The 27-year-old will be earning $7.5 million for The Housemaid, her new movie starring Amanda Seyfried and directed by Paul Feig. 

The pay increase comes less than a year after the release of Anyone But You, her film co-starring Glen Powell. The movie was made on a budget of $25 million but pulled in $220M at the box office.

THR reports that The Housemaid payment now makes the star one of the highest-paid actresses of her generation. 

Zendaya appears to be the one leading the pack after she earned $10 million for starring in and producing the hit tennis film Challengers.

Of Sydney's pay increase, THR notes it's an unusual one in Hollywood.

However the actress has become highly sought after and amid her success has landed a number of savvy roles, including two biopics  - one about Sammy Davis. Jr's romance with Kim Novak and another about professional boxer Christy Martin.  

THR notes that a part of the pay increase takes into account the backend profits Sydney reaped from Anyone But You, a figure the outlet notes is believed to be in the millions.

Sources also shared that Sydney made a $250,000 executive producing fee from the film.

Additionally, THR reports Sydney was crucial in getting Anyone But You made. An insider said Sydney agreed to first appear in Madame Web to help get the rom-com greenlit. 

The source said Sydney took the role to show Sony Pictures 'she was a team player.' 

Prior to making Anyone But You and Madame Web, Sydney filmed the biopic Reality, for which she reportedly made $65,000.

She also made $250k for the 2024 horror Immaculate, however she also served as a producer on the film. 

Sydney has been hard at work filming the upcoming Christy Martin biopic and earlier this month she announced she had been cast in The Housemaid, a film adaptation of the book by the same name by Freida McFadden. 

She will be starring opposite Amanda Seyfried, with both also serving as executive producers on the film.  

Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Vampire Diaries, The Boys, and Archive 81) was hired to adapt the screenplay to the silver screen - according to Deadline.

In the 336-page addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist, housemaid Millie lusts after Nina Winchester's 'broken, handsome' husband Andrew Winchester while caring for their daughter and living in their attic (which ominously only locks from the outside).

'I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late,' the book logline reads.

'But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am. They don't know what I'm capable of…'