The first big weekend of the 2026 box office arrives Friday with three major studio movies aimed at three different demos: women, families and guys over 25. However, the tallest of them all is the Jacob Elordi-Margot Robbie pic Wuthering Heights. Warner Bros. is eyeing a $70M-$80M global opening. The Burbank lot won the MRC production for $80M over its (current) potential future parent, Netflix, which offered $150M.
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The pic’s release, aptly timed to Elordi’s Best Supporting Oscar nomination for Netflix’s Frankenstein, also reps the first fire-breathing mega-wide studio release for Oscar-winning Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell. It will arrive at 3,600 locations stateside with $40M to maybe $50M over the four-day Presidents Day weekend and another $30M from 11,600 screens in 79 territories. In total, 18,000 screens around the world will be showing Elordi’s Heathcliff and Robbie’s Cathy going kissy-kissy in the West Yorkshire moors (the pic was shot in the Yorkshire Dales). The feature take on the Emily Brontë novel will unspool in such major markets as France, Korea, Germany, Italy, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Spain and the UK and be boosted further by Imax, Dolby Cinema, drive-Ins, dine-Ins and premium large format theaters ticket upcharges.
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