Wuthering Heights Gallops to $82 Million Global Debut

Warner Bros., the film’s distributor, reported Emerald Fennell’s R-rated Wuthering Heights was on pace to sell roughly $40 million in tickets from Friday through Monday in the United States and Canada and about $42 million overseas, giving the film an $82 million global debut.

The studio spent an estimated $80 million on the production, not including marketing. Netflix had offered roughly $150 million for the project, which Fennell adapted from Emily Brontë’s novel. Fennell and Margot Robbie, who produced the movie with independent company MRC, chose Warner Bros.

because it promised a wide theatrical release; Warner booked Wuthering Heights into 18,028 theaters worldwide. Fennell is a rarity in Hollywood — a woman who has received steady support despite limited box office returns early in her career. Her first feature, Promising Young Woman, won an Oscar for best original screenplay and earned her a best director nomination, but it collected only $6.5 million in the United States and Canada; Saltburn took in about $11 million.

United States and Canada

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