Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights may have gotten a paltry 63 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and mixed reviews—including a designation that it was “limp” from the Daily Beast—but audiences have been showing up for the steamy adaptation. The retelling of the Brontë novel about the 18th-century romance between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff made a whopping $82 million during its opening weekend. The combined star power of Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie has pulled in enough viewers to make Wuthering Heights the biggest worldwide debut of 2026. The film made $42 million in international markets and $40 million in the United States. The animated Sony project, GOAT, came in second place, earning $47.6 million. Third in the ranking was the crime drama Crime 101, put out by Amazon’s MGM studios and starring Marvel alumni Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo. The movie was produced on a $90 million budget and grossed $12 million at the box office.
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