Regardless of shedding the home field workplace crown to the animated movie GOATdirector Emerald Fennell‘s controversial Wuthering Heights continues to guide the race globally. Each films opened on the identical day final week, with Wuthering Heights rising because the clear frontrunner over the weekend. Nonetheless, GOAT seems to have stronger legs, which is not completely sudden contemplating its mass attraction. In the meantime, Wuthering Heights‘ divisive opinions seem to have exhausted the preliminary surge of consideration. Debate over the movie’s interpretation of Emily Brontë‘s traditional novel has propelled curiosity over the previous few days, however there is a flip-side to controversy: those that miss the second probably will not have any urgency to look at the film any longer. That mentioned, Wuthering Heights continues to be the primary English-language film on the worldwide field workplace, which was dominated this weekend by a handful of Chinese language New Yr releases.
Produced on a reported funds of $80 million, Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi within the lead roles, alongside Shazad Latif and Alison Oliver. Robbie, who additionally serves as one of many movie’s producers, is coming off three box-office underperformers whose poor hauls had been offset by the worldwide success of Barbie. Wuthering Heights managed to overhaul all three underperformers — Babylon, Amsterdamand A Massive Daring Stunning Journey — in its opening weekend alone. The movie’s producers had been supplied a reported $150 million by Netflix, however they selected to go along with Warner Bros.’ decrease bid as a result of they had been decided to present the film a theatrical launch. W.B. is alleged to have spent $100 million on advertising and marketing the moviewhich signifies that it could have to gross round $350 million worldwide simply to interrupt even.
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With greater than $150 million on the worldwide field workplace to this point, Wuthering Heights is the 12 months’s highest-grossing English-language moviealthough purists have criticized Fennell for misrepresenting the primary themes of the supply novel. It has now overtaken one other interval film that subverted its style: director Man Ritchie‘s spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Launched in 2015, the film was designed as a franchise-starter, however its underwhelming field workplace efficiency and blended opinions put an finish to these plans. Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikanderand Hugh Grantthe film ended its international run with $110 million towards a reported funds of $84 million. It holds a 68% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas Wuthering Heights has dropped to 59% after 10 days of launch. You’ll be able to watch Fennell’s movie in theaters. Keep tuned to Collider for extra updates.

- Launch Date
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February 13, 2026
- Runtime
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136 Minutes
- Director
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Emerald Fennell
- Writers
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Emerald Fennell, Emily Brontë
- Producers
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Margot RobbieTom Ackerley, Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara
