{"id":2293065,"date":"2026-02-21T20:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2293065"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:55:25","slug":"wuthering-heights-living-up-to-the-hype-no-1-second-friday-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wuthering-heights-living-up-to-the-hype-no-1-second-friday-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wuthering Heights&#8217; living up to the hype, No. 1 second Friday in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F02%2Fcrop-38564388_7daa41.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The \u201cHeights\u201d are living up to the hype.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWuthering Heights\u201d was No. 1 at the box office again, raking in $4.6 million on Friday, its second in theaters, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart__;!!F0Stn7g!D1HZFOwuN6pnMwSLez2NMwbN8BtS0CdIK8S7AmLh85PuCO_Zv3gR1VbjMMyZJIEiPKF5-HhCprpY5zwMZI70pD3pUfk$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated romantic drama loosely based on\u00a0the 1847 Emily Bront\u00eb novel, stars Margot Robbie\u00a0and\u00a0Jacob Elordi, whom The Post said \u201care so hot, they self-combust.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Post said \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d stars Margot Robbie\u00a0and\u00a0Jacob Elordi \u201care so hot, they self-combust.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remaining in second place was \u201cGOAT,\u201d with $3.86 million in revenue. <\/p>\n<p>The animated sports comedy features Golden State Warriors\u2019 star Stephen Curry \u2014 who lends his voice to a supporting role \u2014 in his film debut.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Christian biopic \u201cI Can Only Imagine 2\u201d took third, with sales of $3.75 million. The film, based on Bart Millard, the frontman of the Christian band MercyMe, stars Dennis Quaid,\u00a0Milo Ventimiglia and Arielle Kebbel.<\/p>\n<p>In fourth was \u201cHow to Make a Killing,\u201d with an over $1.6 million take.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The animated sports comedy \u201cGOAT\u201d is the story of an anthropomorphic goat with big aspirations.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Sony Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The biopic \u201cI Can Only Imagine 2\u201d is based on Bart Millard, the frontman of the Christian band MercyMe. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/18\/entertainment\/how-to-make-a-killing-review-glen-powells-murder-comedy-is-funny-as-a-corpse\/\">The Post called<\/a> the black comedy thriller \u201cmerely fine in the first half and then unappetizingly somber and sluggish toward the end,\u201d and its star, Glen Powell, \u201cso unassuming you barely notice he\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fifth was \u201cCrime 101,\u201d\u00a0down two notches from last Friday, which earned just over $1.5 million. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cHeights\u201d are living up to the hype. \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d was No. 1 at the box office again, raking in $4.6 million on Friday, its second in theaters, according to The Numbers. The highly anticipated romantic drama loosely based on\u00a0the 1847 Emily Bront\u00eb novel, stars Margot Robbie\u00a0and\u00a0Jacob Elordi, whom The Post said \u201care so hot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2293066,"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":[25174],"tags":[355389,34204,357171,21741,310317,309841,310836,354108,21912,310531],"class_list":["post-2293065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-arielle-kebbel","tag-box-office","tag-dennis-quaid","tag-entertainment","tag-glen-powell","tag-jacob-elordi","tag-margot-robbie","tag-milo-ventimiglia","tag-movies","tag-stephen-curry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wuthering-Heights-living-up-to-the-hype-No-1-second.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293065","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=2293065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293067,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293065\/revisions\/2293067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}