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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 16, 2026
Bad dreams in the night but good numbers at the box office. Valentine’s weekend was a good time for Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”. Reviews were mixed and the Discourse was heated but Fennell had a big literary name, two bona fide stars, and seeeeeeeeeex in her corner. And it worked. Warner Bros. should be happy with that $34.8 million opening weekend from 3,682 locations. The film already seems to have earned back its $80 million budget, which is hugely impressive for an adult movie with a February release date. Whatever you think of the film — I didn’t like it at all — it is cool that a female director got the budget to make this R-rated period drama and audiences embraced it with their wallets.
In second place is GOAT, the animated comedy about basketball greatness and dribbling animals (wait.) This one took in $26 million from 3,863 cinemas. That was more than enough to beat Crime 101, the ‘We have Heat at home’ drama starring Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry. This one grossed $15.13 million.
Gore Verbinski is back with the sci-fi frenzy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Best title of 2026 so far? Sadly, it seemed to struggle with crowds over a busy weekend, landing at number seven with $3.62 million.
For anyone wondering about Avatar: Fire and Ash and whether or not it was successful enough for Disney to greenlight the fourth and fifth parts of the saga. After nine weeks, the movie is oh-so-close to $400 million domestically, with $396 million in the bank. Its current worldwide gross is $1,460,066,244. That’s enough to make it the 16th highest-grossing movie of all time, ahead of Frozen 2 and Barbie. That should be enough to have is classified as a success, but when your predecessors both made over $2.3 billion, the stakes are higher. So, I question whether or not we’ll get that fourth movie. Sorry, James Cameron. Maybe it’s time to make the guerilla indie version of Pandora.
Outside of the top ten, things were also busy. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, the time-travel comedy mockumentary that is possibly the most Canadian film ever made, grossed an impressive $1.25 million for 365 locations. The horror comedy Cold Storage scared up $1.1 million from 1,041 places. Another horror movie, The Mortuary Assistant, based on a video game, took in $205,360.
This coming week sees the release of the comedy How to Make a Killing and the Christian drama sequel I Can Only Imagine 2.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
