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Warner Bros. Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi rose to the occasion with a $34.8 million debut and $42 million overseas for a $76.8 million global debut. That’s just another line-up in WB’s catalog for earning top-notch performances and winning the weekend. Granted, this feature can’t be in the same territory as a Fifty Shades of Grey in 2015 or its sequels in 2017 and 2018, and it “just” missed the debut of Gone Girl in 2014. A B from CinemaScore isn’t exactly Earth-shattering, but it’ll do a hell of a lot better than any title being tossed onto PVOD.
Margot Robbie clearly made her move with this standout in the latest top-billed vehicle, with her last being the notoriously coveted Barbie during a certain trend that ruled the summer back in 2023. Robbie might not qualify as a draw, but her prominence in the likes of Barbie, Suicide Squad, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and The Legend of Tarzan might put her up there (yes, we can acknowledge COVID ripped up the likes of The Suicide Squad or the legs for Birds of Prey). In the hopes that overseas might bolster its global performance, as most big romantic features opening on Presidents’ Day weekend tend to be frontloaded, this will probably wrap up with around $100 million domestic and $250 million worldwide. That is still a good win for WB on a movie that’s budgeted “just as a movie,” and it won’t have much competition until The Bride, which opens in a few weeks.
In other news, GOAT opened with $26 million, the first Sony Animation release since Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in June 2023, and before that, The Angry Birds Movie 2 in August 2019. It’s the first non-sequel toon in town for a while, and with less competition for original animation (until Pixar’s Hoppers), this is good stuff. Yeah, original animated toons haven’t broken out in almost a decade (thanks to studios prioritizing sequels, nostalgia, and remakes), but we’ll be optimistic that this is a wake-up call for more studios to deliver toons that earn well enough to prove their existence in the marketplace.
Crime 101 opened with a better-than-expected $15.13 million, even though Amazon MGM Studios still has a lot of work ahead of it if it wants to play like Sony or Paramount. And unfortunately, it still points to that crummy scenario where Chris Hemsworth’s value, despite this being another good title, only comes from Thor. Surely the prowess of Doomsday will make up for this performance, especially since it can earn unlike a Reacher or Jack Ryan when sitting at home.
Send Help got a boost from the holidays, earned nearly as much as last weekend, and will pass $50 million in domestic revenue by tomorrow evening. Solo Mio earned $6.8 million domestically in its second weekend. Zootopia 2 will pass $420 million domestic sometime tomorrow, as it is climbing to $1.85 billion thanks to continued overseas support.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die opened with $3.62 million; this is Gore Verbinski’s first feature since A Cure for Wellness in 2017. Iron Lung will surpass $50 million in global revenue later this week. Avatar: Fire and Ash will pass $400 million domestically shortly; legs have been a godsend, as competition in the first few weeks of 2026 has been slim. Dracula will pass $30 million worldwide tonight, while The Strangers: Chapter 3 has collapsed.
Lastly, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie opened with $1.25 million.
Next weekend sees the release of Psycho Killer, I Can Only Imagine 2, This Is Not a Test, The Dreadful, and Redux Redux.
