Box-Office Weekend: Wuthering Heights Soars

Box Office Weekend

A new films stands atop the box-office weekend top ten as Wuthering Heights debuted in the top spot by an $8.8 million margin.

“Wuthering Heights” posterIn its weekend of release, the latest adaptation of Wuthering heights took in $34.8 million for Warner Bros., securing the top spot of the box-office weekend for the film. Second place was claimed by newcomer GOAT which made $26.0 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. Meanwhile, Amazon MGM Studios saw its Crime 101 debut in third place with $15.1 million taken in over the weekend. These debuts pushed last week’s top film, Send Help, to a fourth-place finish this weekend as it took in $9.1 million to raise its three-week total to $47.9 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Similarly, Solo Mio also fell three spots from last weekend to land in fifth place where it made $6.8 million. The Angel release now claims a two-week total of $17.3 million.

Holding its ground from last weekend to remain in sixth place, Zootopia 2 took in another $3.8 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to bring the film’s twelve-week total to $419.4 million. Briarcliff Entertainment saw its release of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die debut in the seventh spot of this weekend’s top ten where it made $3.6 million. In its ninth week in release, Avatar: Fire and Ash added $3.32 million to claim eighth place as it lifted its nine-week total to $396.1 million for 20th Century Studios. After a third-place finish last weekend, the Markiplier release Iron Lung fell to ninth place this weekend as it added $3.3 million to bring the film’s three-week total to $34.1 million. Finally, falling five spots from its placement last weekend, Vertical Entertainment’s Dracula landed in tenth place with $3.0 million, giving the film a two-week total of $9.0 million.

Yet again, four films were forced out of the weekend box-office top ten. After a fourth-place finish last weekend, Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience departs the list with a seven-day total of $6.8 million. Meanwhile, Lionsgate saw its The Strangers: Chapter 3 bring in $ 6.9 million in its two weeks of release before leaving the top ten after n eighth-place finish last weekend. Following its ninth-place finish a week ago, Shelter fell from the top ten with a total of $11.2 million. Finally, after three weeks in release, Melania has grossed a total of $15.4 million for Amazon MGM Studios before dropping out of the top ten.

Weekend Box Office
(February 13th – February 15th)

    1. Wuthering Heights…$34.8 Million
    2. GOAT…$26.0 Million
    3. Crime 101…$15.1 Million
    4. Send Help…$9.1 Million
    5. Solo Mio…$6.8 Million
    6. Zootopia 2…$3.8 Million
    7. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die…$3.6 Million
    8. Avatar: Fire and Ash…$3.32 Million
    9. Iron Lung…$3.3 Million
    10. Dracula…$3.0 Million
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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