Wuthering Heights will not climb increased than GOAT this weekend.
Emerald Fennell’s controversial Wuthering Heights film – which has been criticized for that includes Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff as a substitute of an actor of coloration – debuted on Valentine’s weekend reverse Sony Footage Animation’s new animated sports activities film GOAT. Wuthering Heights took No. 1 with $32.8 million (the largest home debut of 2026 thus far), however GOAT was a detailed No. 2 with $27.2 million.
Now, the 2 films are set to swap locations on the chart throughout their mutual sophomore weekend. Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Wuthering Heights is projected to earn a 3-day complete of $14.7 million on the home field workplace by the tip of its sophomore weekend. It has been in a neck-and-neck race for No. 1 with GOAT, which has pulled forward with projections of $15.7 million.
This alteration in place is accounted for by the truth that 2026’s Wuthering Heights is falling 55% week-over-week whereas GOAT is simply dropping 42%. That is not an surprising outcome, as animated films are likely to have sturdy audiences holds and Wuthering Heights was a romance that debuted over Valentine’s Day, which naturally gave it a lift in weekend 1 because of date evening screenings.
Each films have reported budgets of roughly $80 million, which might in the end place their estimated theatrical break-even factors as excessive as $200 million apiece. Nevertheless, each may very well be set to hit that quantity by the tip of their runs. In reality, Wuthering Heights has already hit a cumulative home complete of $60.5 million, and it has earned greater than double that determine worldwide.
In the meantime, the faith-based music biopic sequel I Can Solely Think about 2, which is the one new large launch enjoying in additional than 2,000 theaters, is set to debut at No. 3 with a gap weekend complete between $8 and $9 million.
This could be a big drop from the $17.1 million debut of the unique I Can Solely Think about in 2018. Nevertheless, that film was a smash hit, grossing $86 million in opposition to a reported $7 million finances.
Whereas the sequel has a considerably increased reported finances of $18 million, that’s nonetheless comparatively low for a recent launch. Even with the sequel’s diminishing returns, there may be loads of room for it to show a revenue by the tip of its run.
General, Wuthering Heights, GOAT, and I Can Solely Think about 2 have helped propel the home field workplace to a $75.4 million weekend. That is simply 3% decrease than the post-Presidents’ Day body from 2025, which was the sophomore weekend of Marvel’s Captain America: Courageous New World.
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- 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 Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara
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February 13, 2026
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93 minutes
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Tyree Dillihay
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Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley, Nicolas Curcio
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Rodney Rothman, Stephen Curry, Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Erick Peyton, Adam Rosenberg
