Sydney Sweeney's latest indie film, Americana, has finally been theatrically released two years after it premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival. The film stars Sweeney as Penny Jo Poplin, a waitress who dreams of becoming a singer. She accidentally becomes part of a gang plot involving a stolen Native American artifact, causing a cascading web of crime in her South Dakota town. The Tony Tost-directed crime thriller made an estimated $500,000 across 1,100 theaters on its opening weekend of August 15, 2025.