Sweeney stars as Penny Jo, a South Dakota diner waitress with an appealing smile, an ingratiating stammer, a scarf in her hair, and deep reserves of ruthless ambition.

Writer-director Tony Tost’s feature film debut, Americana, is a modern-day Western about a South Dakota waitress and aspiring country singer The post Writer-Director Tony Tost’s Long Road Trip to Americana appeared first on MovieMaker Magazine.

So yes, Americana didn’t rake in millions its first weekend. But “bomb”? Not quite. In indie terms, this is business as usual and a modest play designed to pay off in the long run. If anything, it’s a reminder that not every Sydney Sweeney movie has to be a blockbuster to matter. Sometimes the smaller moves set the stage for the bigger ones.

A modern-day noir Western unfolds in writer/director Tony Tost's feature film debut called "Americana." The lives of a shy waitress with big dreams (Sydney Sweeney), a lovelorn military veteran (Paul Walter Hauser),

Tony Tost's tense debut plays like a genre-blurring ’90s crime thriller, as Sydney Sweeney, Simon Rex, Halsey's characters try to steal a ghost shirt.

There are plenty of opportunities for Americana to fall into crime-movie cutesiness, but its cast and Western bona fides keep it fun.

This slick and skillful neo-western starring Sydney Sweeney and Halsey follows characters on the trail of a Lakota heirloom.

Reports that Sydney Sweeney's 'Americana' bombed are false. It just takes a greater understanding of how the indie business currently works.

"Fantastic Four" and "Naked Gun" star Paul Walter Hauser told UPI the character he plays in the contemporary western "Americana," is a man out of time.

Ahead of Filmland, which runs from Aug. 13-17, we spoke with filmmaker Tony Tost about his connections to The Natural State and the making of "Americana," starring Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser and pop singer Halsey.

Lionsgate’s newest film, Americana, follows the local outsiders and outcasts of a small South Dakota town as their lives violently intertwine when a rare Lakota Ghost shirt falls onto the