The Box Office Comes to New Heights — Weekend Box Office Report for February 13th-February 16th, 2026

NOTE: The following box office report was published yesterday. It’s you who’s confused. I am not, in fact, late.

Our number one movie, as everyone predicted, is Wuthering Heights (I refuse to use the quotation marks), but did it come up short of expectations? That depends on who you ask. For the four-day weekend (which is really a five-day weekend since it opened on Thursday, but I digress), the “trashy” adaptation of the literary classic–which despite its sex-pun-to-come marketing is too cowardly to have nudity–brought in $37 million. Naysayers will be quick to point out that initial tracking had this one pegging $50 million or more, so is Warner Bros. going to be disappointed with the result here? (By the way, this is the studio’s first release since last September’s One Battle After Another. No, really).

Realistically, this is how Wuthering was always going to perform. It’s a period piece and those are always tough sells from a commercial standpoint. The fact that everyone was hyping this up at all is a testament to how effective those crazy trailers were. So this isn’t a bad opening. But it’s also almost certainly frontloaded. Next weekend, I am betting on Heights losing its crown to one of our many newcomers from this week.

That’s right, the “real” winner of the weekend might be Sony’s GOAT. Honestly, it’s surprising it has taken this long for an animated film to use that joke to their advantage. GOAT jumped past expectations and almost reached the heights of Wuthering over the holiday frame, so obviously, families are welcoming something to watch other than Zootopia 2 (which is still bringing in money, by the way). This is almost certainly going to be our number one film next weekend, unless I Can Only Imagine 2 really overperforms.

But we’re not done. Crime 101 also opened, bringing in $16 million. The old school-style crime thriller got absolutely glowing reviews, so some might call this kind of opening disappointing. But we’re talking about Amazon MGM here, and the rules work differently for them. Like Mercy, this is essentially a glorified commercial for when it drops on Prime, so it’s pretty much free money as far as they’re concerned (I refuse to give Melania that kind of credit, sorry not sorry; no one is accusing Mercy of being a political bribe). Still, this could’ve been unleashed on a less busy weekend. I get the idea of “counterprogramming,” but I’m not sure if that works over Valentine’s Day, a time when couples stick together at the theater.

As for smaller openers, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was one of Briarcliff Entertainment’s best openings to date, although I have no idea how they stay in business, as none of their films ever seem to bring in actual cash. Still, it’s a win for Gore Verbinski, who hasn’t directed a movie in nearly a decade (does anyone remember A Cure for Wellness?). Less successful was Sony’s unceremonious “wide” release of the anime actioner (at least I think it’s an actioner) Scarlet on roughly 500 screens. This was originally set to open in December, before the abrupt decision was made to move it to February. Obviously, mistakes were made here, despite the trailer being attached to all screenings of Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man.

That said, there’s really a lot of good news this week. Disney might not have opened anything, but their leftovers are remaining hot. Send Help essentially saw no drop at all!

Anyway, the top ten, via Box Office Mojo