{"id":2292865,"date":"2026-02-21T17:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2292865"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:41:15","slug":"box-office-wuthering-heights-leads-again-with-4-6-million-how-to-make-a-killing-takes-out-1-6-million-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/box-office-wuthering-heights-leads-again-with-4-6-million-how-to-make-a-killing-takes-out-1-6-million-on-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 Leads Again With $4.6 Million; \u2018How to Make a Killing\u2019 Takes Out $1.6 Million on Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0390816\/\">A24<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0006881\/\">Lionsgate<\/a> each brought a newcomer to the Friday box office with \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4357198\/\">How to Make a Killing<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6450186\/\">I Can Only Imagine<\/a> 2.\u201d However, they were unable to usurp the No. 1 spot. from last week\u2019s champion, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32897959\/\">Wuthering Heights<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4357198\/\">How to Make a Killing<\/a>\u201d landed at No. 4 on its opening day, grossing $1.6 million from 1,625 North American theaters. Rivals have the comedy thriller pulling in $3.2 million by Sunday. Directed by \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15255876\/\">Emily the Criminal<\/a>\u201d filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3621304\/\">John Patton Ford<\/a>, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4357198\/\">How to Make a Killing<\/a>\u201d follows <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1412974\/\">Glen Powell<\/a> as Becket Redfellow, a vengeful man who decides to kill his way through his estranged family in order to claim an exuberant inheritance. Other cast members include <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4960279\/\">Margaret Qualley<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000438\/\">Ed Harris<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3725055\/\">Jessica Henwick<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0333410\/\">Topher Grace<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2046855\/\">Zach Woods<\/a>. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1949 black comedy \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041546\/\">Kind Hearts and Coronets<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2193504\/\">Emerald Fennell<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32897959\/\">Wuthering Heights<\/a>\u201d landed at No. 1 for the second Friday in a row with $4.6 million domestically.<\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-link ipc-link--base sc-a1082b8f-0 dYguHm\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-disabled=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/box-office-wuthering-heights-how-to-make-a-killing-goat-1236669138\/\">See full article at Variety &#8211; Film News<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" class=\"ipc-icon ipc-icon--launch-inline ipc-icon--inline ipc-link__launch-icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"currentColor\" role=\"presentation\"><path d=\"M21.6 21.6H2.4V2.4h7.2V0H0v24h24v-9.6h-2.4v7.2zM14.4 0v2.4h4.8L7.195 14.49l2.4 2.4L21.6 4.8v4.8H24V0h-9.6z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A24 and Lionsgate each brought a newcomer to the Friday box office with \u201cHow to Make a Killing\u201d and \u201cI Can Only Imagine 2.\u201d However, they were unable to usurp the No. 1 spot. from last week\u2019s champion, \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d \u201cHow to Make a Killing\u201d landed at No. 4 on its opening day, grossing $1.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2292866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2292865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Box-Office-\u2018Wuthering-Heights-Leads-Again-With-46-Million-\u2018How.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292867,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292865\/revisions\/2292867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}