‘Wuthering Heights’ Holds Off New Releases in Slow Box Office Weekend

Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights looks to take the number one spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row. Variety reports that Wuthering Heights claimed the number one spot on Friday Feb. 20, 2026 with $4.6 million domestically. Despite being a 56% drop from the previous Friday, Wuthering Heights is projected to hold onto the number one spot at the weekend box office with $14.2 million. That brings its total to $60 million domestically after two weeks in release.

Sony Animation’s GOAT will hold the number two spot with $3.8 million on Friday, with an estimated $13 to $14 million over the weekend. Lionsgate’s faith-based I Can Only Imagine 2 landed number three on its opening day with $3.75 million, with weekend estimates ranging from $8 to $9 million for the number three spot at the weekend box office. The other new release of the weekend, A24’s How to Make a Killing, grossed $1.6 million on its opening day and is projected to gross $3.2 million over the weekend. Amazon MGM’s Crime 101 rounds out the top five with $1.53 on Friday, and is in a race with How to Make a Killing for the number 4 spot at the weekend box office.

‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘GOAT’ Rule the Box Office

Will Harris (Caleb McLaughlin) playing roarball in GOAT

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After a rather impressive Valentine’s and Presidents’ Day weekend that saw a diverse mix of titles like Wuthering Heights, GOAT, and Crime 101 open, this recent box office weekend is much slower. The mixed word of mouth on Wuthering Heights seems to have taken a bit of the box office out of it. GOAT is estimated to gross between $53 and $54 million by the end of the weekend, putting it only $60 million behind Wuthering Heights and potentially overtaking it.

As for the new releases, I Can Only Imagine 2 opened well, but it will likely come in below the $17 million opening weekend of I Can Only Imagine back in 2018. Circumstances have certainly changed, as the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted moviegoing habits, but it would be a miracle if I Can Only Imagine 2 matches the $83 million domestic gross of its predecessor. With a $40 million budget, A24 likely was expecting more from How to Make a Killing. This marks Glen Powell’s second box office and critical disappointment following The Running Man in November 2025. Powell’s next film, The Great Beyond, is directed by J.J. Abrams and opens on Nov. 13, 2026.

Outside the box office top five was EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which grossed $1.4 million across just 325 screens, giving it the biggest weekend average at $4,307 per theater, per Box Office Mojo. On the opposite end of the spectrum was 20th Century Pictures’ Psycho Killer, which received a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and opened at number nine with $710,000. The box office is expected to pick up next week with the release of Scream 7 on February 27, and the week after will see Pixar’s Hoppers and Warner Bros. The Bride kicks off the month of March.