Wuthering Heights came out on top of the combined Valentine’s/President’s Day holiday weekend, but almost every movie far exceeded expectations.
Wuthering Heights earned $32.8 million domestically over the weekend and has grossed $83 million worldwide. It’s Margot Robbie’s sixth-highest opening of all time domestically between Birds of Prey and The Suicide Squad.  She has only three movies to date, but it’s the biggest opening ever for director Emerald Fennell, although Saltburn and Promising Young Woman both debuted in limited release before expanding. The movie received a mixed B CinemaScore, so we’ll have to see what kind of legs it has going into its second weekend.
GOAT took second place with $27.2 million domestically and $50.6 million worldwide. For Sony Pictures Animation, that opening puts GOAT between Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Peter Rabbit.  The movie got an A Cinemascore, so this seems like it might be the go-to family film for the next few weeks.
Crime 101 ranked third, with $14.2 million domestically and $28.2 million worldwide. That domestic number is double the predicted box office going into the weekend. It is on the lower end of Chris Hemsworth’s openings, sitting between Red Dawn and In the Heart of the Sea.  It is the fourth-best opening of Amazon MGM studios between A Working Man and Mercy.
Send Help and Solo Mio rounded out the top 5. Both films held exceptionally well, both dropping below 10% from last weekend.  Send Help now has $47.7 million domestically, and Solo Mio has $17 million.
Further down the list, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die opened in seventh place with $3.6 million in 1,610 theaters.
The best per-theater average went to A24’s Pillion, which expanded into 24 theaters and averaged $14,620 per theater.
