In a weekend with the first biggest global openings of 2026 with Warner Bros/MRC’s Wuthering Heights ($82M), Sony’s Goat ($47.6M) and Amazon MGM Studio’s Crime 101 ($29.8M), Disney is heralding that they’re the first major motion picture studio to cross $1 billion at the worldwide B.O. in 2026, just seven weeks into the year. Further breakdown of Mouse House pics below.
Warner Bros is determined to get Wuthering Heights to an $80M-plus opening, and that might fluctuate with a lower domestic 4-day (mid $30M) and a better international (north of $42M). More on what’s happening with Heathcliff and Cathy’s exploits around the world here. The question — how frontloaded is this young, female skewing movie going to be? The movie cost all in production package and global P&A $180M.
Sony’s Goat would love to chew off some dollars from Wuthering Heights 4-day start for a No. 1 win stateside ($32M); we’ll have a better idea tom’w. Foreign delivered $15.6M, which is 21% ahead of Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, 11% above Warner Bros Space Jam: A New Legacy, and 9% higher than DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys in like-for-like markets at current exchange rates. The latter has been a serious comp for the movie as an original animated post Covid title; that movie finaling at $250.3M WW ($97.4M domestic, $152.9M unadjusted for inflation and currency swings). Note, basketball isn’t the type of thing that travels abroad at the box office, but Space Jam 2 lucked out with a $93M overseas against the theatrical day-and-date (on HBO Max) domestic final haul of $70M. Europe scored $11.1M for Goat with $4.8M in the UK, Spain $1.2M, and France $1.1M. In Latin America, Goat did $3.6 million, led by Mexico with $1.8M. Overall, the animated Stephen Curry production is playing on 8,800 screens across 42 local markets, repping a 60% footprint. Upcoming territories are Germany (Feb. 19), Australia (March 12), China (March 14), Saudi Arabia (April 23) and South Korea (April).
Amazon MGM Studios’ Crime 101 found an audience ($12M international) on Valentine’s Day thanks to great reviews with a great spike in the UK ($2M on 795 screens) and Australia ($1.4M opening on 360 screens), which were of course highly competitive markets due Wuthering Heights. The movie was always seen as a No. 3 play in the U.S. as well as the U.K. The Don Winslow source material movie was No. 2 in Australia, the land of Chris Hemsworth, and No. 2 in New Zealand, and No. 1 in Saudi Arabia ($790K on 123 screens where these macho action movies do well) and No. 1 in UAE ($605K on 110 screens). Japan was vibrant ($745K on 738 screens) as cop fare has a shot there. Germany was $750K at 335 screens (not far from Gerard Butler’s Greenland 2 which did $767K). The rest were Spain ($515K on 266 screens), Mexico ($400K on 610 screens), Italy ($310K on 207 screens), Poland ($245K on 108 screens), Kuwait with $240 on 27 screens (No. 1 there), Brazil ($206K on 463 screens), Belgium with $180K on 55 screens, Ukraine with $176K on 245 screens, a very surprising Kazakhstan ($170K on 1115 screens) which rarely registers as a top market for a Hollywood pic, and Austria with $160K on 57 screens. Twenty markets are yet to come including Indonesia and the Philippines (Feb. 18); Thailand (Feb. 19); Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong (Feb 26); Vietnam (March 13); and Korea (April 3). Know this: Whatever the economics are on this Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Barry Keoghan and Mark Ruffalo film with a $90M production cost and another $85M+ in global marketing, Amazon is investing in theatrical, exhibitors around the globe are benefiting from it (it was extended counterprogramming for the weekend, hello), and at the end of the year, that’s when a studio’s slate is assessed with a mixture of hits and misses. Also, Amazon can afford to spend splashy in ways that other majors can’t.
Disney’s Zootopia 2 files a global 12th weekend of $15.5M or $16.7M including the 4-day ($11.7M of that from 52 territories, -16%; $5M domestic). Global cume is $1.82B with $1.409B from offshore and $420.6M domestic (through Monday). Before the New Year, China still hasn’t let go of Zootopia 2 where it’s still No. 1 MPA title for the weekend with an estimated $4.5M with an overall cume of $646.3M, ditto for Japan where the animals are still leading the B.O. among U.S. fare. Tops on Valentine’s Day in the Middle Kingdom was the Phillip Yung directed rom-com Love Go Go Go! with $4.86M and another $500K on Sunday for a $5.4M weekend.
Sam Raimi’s Send Help stays afloat with $14.5M global 4-day weekend ($12.8M 3-day) with $3.8M (-50%) minted from 51 territories and $9M stateside. Foreign running cume is $24.2M. Add in $49.6M domestic and worldwide for the $40M production stands at $73.8M. The 20th Century Studios movie opened No 5 in France with $800K ($900K in previews). Strongest holds were experienced in Australia (-30%), Germany (-42%), UK (-44%), S. Arabia (-44%) and Netherlands (-47%).
20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash will approach $400M soon domestic, but for now it’s at $396.1M after $3.8M over the 4-day Presidents Day weekend. Add in $9.4M (-29%) from 52 territories abroad and the global weekend is $13.2M 4-day ($12.7M 3-day). International running cume is $1.06B and worldwide is $1.459B after nine weekends. Strongest holds were experienced in Denmark (+17%), Sweden (+6%), Czechia (0%), Philippines (-2%), Austria (-3%), China (-4%), Chile (-8%), Spain (-11%), Switzerland (-12%), Belgium (-14%), Argentina (-15%), France (-17%), Germany (-21%), Hong Kong (-21%), Mexico (-33%), Netherlands (-35%), Australia (-37%) and Poland (-43%). Through the lowest global haul of the three Avatar movies, we can’t say this enough, the global haul isn’t bad for a threequel behind the $2B of Avengers: Infinity War and arguably the Tom Holland Spider-Man: No Way Home at $1.92B.