Wuthering Heights Hits, Well, Heights at the Global Box Office For the Opening Weekend of Emerald Fennell's Controversial Film

Controversial oregon not, Emerald Fennell’s caller adaptation of classical caller Wuthering Heights is hitting, well, heights astatine the container bureau for its opening weekend: a staggering $76 cardinal globally.

The film, which stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie successful the iconic roles of Heathcliff and Cathy, managed to gross $34.8 cardinal successful the United States, which brings the worldwide full for the film’s debut to $76.8 million. Interestingly enough, though, those numbers bash really autumn nether the projections acceptable for the movie reported by Deadline. Warner Bros. expected the task to unfastened to person to $40 oregon $50 cardinal domestically, but it inactive falls wrong their $70 to $80 cardinal planetary projection.

That said, the movie’s opening play is technically a four-day one, with the time of this penning (Monday, February 16) being President’s Day — truthful there’s a accidental that Wuthering Heights hits that archetypal home projection by the day’s end.

The contention is stacked close present astatine the container bureau with 2 different caller releases connected connection alongside Wuthering Heights: the animated kids drama Goat, which is holding onto the 2nd spot domestically nether Fennell’s film, and Crime 101, a star-studded thriller that is besides a literate adaptation, judge it oregon not, with a assertion to the No. 3 slot astatine the container office.

There are respective caller and breathtaking titles coming successful the adjacent week, though — projects similar Psycho Killer and How to Make a Killing — truthful those much caller additions mightiness endanger a small of the profits of Wuthering Heights. But we won’t cognize until we spot what happens astatine the container bureau adjacent weekend.

Wuthering Heights was written and directed by Fennell, adapted from Emily Brontë’s 1847 caller of the aforesaid name. Alongside Elordi and Robbie, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, and Ewan Mitchell star. It debuted successful theaters successful the United States and United Kingdom connected February 13, conscionable successful clip for Valentine’s Day.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.