"Over the Valentine's Day/President's Day long weekend, writer-director Emerald Fennell's surrealist, Charli XCX-pulsed, messy-bitch rendition of Wuthering Heights took in a stronger-than-expected $83 million worldwide to top the box office. The R-rated Margot Robbie-Jacob Elordi erotic two-hander undershot domestic prerelease projections, which foresaw WH earning as much as $50 million over its opening four days (it did $38 million in 3,682 North American theaters according to Comscore), but over-indexed overseas with a surprisingly robust $45 million international tally."
"In conjunction with film financier MRC, Warner Bros. spent $80 million to produce Fennell's movie - which engages with tropes of the bodice-ripper genre by featuring Elordi bodice-lifting Robbie and a scene with the Barbie actress in the act of self-pleasuring amid desolate Yorkshire moorlands - and $85 million more on marketing " Wuthering Heights." (The studio added scare quotes around its title presumably to underscore the myriad psycho-sexual departures the movie takes from Emily Bronte's 1847 novel.)"
"the Oscar-winning English provocateuse behind the 2020 critical darling Promising Young Woman and 2023's Barry Keoghan-wang-baring , who has cemented her place among Hollywood final-cut filmmakers with her third film. While dividing critics, some of whom likened the cinematic spectacle of Wuthering Heights to "watching a mo-pic incarnation of the smutty scratchings doodled in the margins of a science textbook by a bored middle-schooler" and derided it as " overheated but undercooked,""
Over the Valentine's Day/President's Day weekend, Emerald Fennell's surreal, Charli XCX-pulsed Wuthering Heights grossed $83 million worldwide, earning $38 million domestically and $45 million internationally. Warner Bros. and MRC spent $80 million on production and $85 million on marketing. The film employs bodice-ripper tropes and explicit sequences, including Margot Robbie in a self-pleasuring scene amid Yorkshire moorlands and Jacob Elordi lifting Robbie's bodice. The studio used scare quotes around the title to signal psycho-sexual departures from Emily Bronte's novel. Critical reaction was mixed, and with key markets like Japan and China still closed, the film is expected to rely on foreign box office for profitability.
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