Wuthering Heights Projected To Overwhelmingly Win Over Chris Hemsworth & Halle Berry's New Thriller At Box Office

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Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights poster

Published Feb 11, 2026, 9:42 AM EST

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Wuthering Heights will be a force to be reckoned with at the box office, as new projections put it far ahead of Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry's new crime thriller.

Directed by Emerald Fennell, the period romance stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff, respectively, in a love story set against the Yorkshire moors. The film arrives as part of a crowded opening weekend, with Hemsworth's Crime 101 and the animated basketball movie Goat sharing its release date of February 13.

Per Deadline, Wuthering Heights is expected to beat both of its competitors, with projections estimating an opening weekend of between $70 million to $80 million worldwide. $40 million to $50 million of that total will hail from domestic theaters, while another $30 million should come from international markets.

Crime 101 is projected to trail far behind Fennell's domestically, with an opening predicted to land around $15 million across the four-day weekend. Hemsworth's upcoming film will also fall behind Goat, which is projected to gross about $20 million domestically in the same time frame.

Marking Fennell's follow-up to Saltburn (2023), Wuthering Heights adapts the Emily Brontë novel of the same name. The film is already generating buzz online for its deviations from the source material and for some raunchy additions to the story, and the box office projections suggest this buzz will get audiences – especially women – to theaters.

Appealing to a very different and mostly male demographic, Crime 101 features Hemsworth starring as Davis, a talented thief eying one last job. Berry costars in the Bart Layton film as an insurance broker who crosses paths with Davis, with the pair soon becoming the target of a tenacious detective, played by Mark Ruffalo. Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, and Nick Nolte also star.

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