Key Takeaways

• Film Performance: Wuthering Heights has doubled its production budget at the box office.
• Critical Reception: The film has received mixed reviews, with debates over its adaptation of the original novel.
• Box Office Success: The movie has grossed $152 million globally, surpassing other recent period dramas.
• Cast Highlights: Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, the film targets a younger audience.

After completing a full week of release in theaters worldwide, the controversial new film Wuthering Heights has successfully doubled its production budget at the box office. The movie has received divisive reviews, with some questioning director Emerald Fennell‘s perceived inaccurate interpretation of Emily Brontë‘s 19th-century novel, while others defend her bold vision as a refreshing change of pace in the otherwise proper period drama genre. Starring Margot Robbie, Wuthering Heights was able to overtake two of her recent period dramas — Amsterdam and Babylon — in its opening weekend alone. And after 10 days in theaters globally, it has overtaken an equally outrageous film of the same genre.

Wuthering Heights features Jacob Elordi alongside Robbie, who also serves as one of the film’s producers. The young Australian recently earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars for his performance as “The Creature” in Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein. Elordi has come a long way from the Kissing Booth trilogy on Netflix, which is where he got his big break. He then went on to star in HBO’s Euphoria, whose target audience Wuthering Heights seems to be aimed at. The movie holds a 59% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Liberally adapting Emily Brontë’s classic story with a heavy dose of carnality and chic stylization, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights might not be the stuff of high literature, but it is a visually vibrant pleasure.”

Here’s the Outrageous Historical Movie ‘Wuthering Heights’ Has Overtaken at the Box Office

With $60 million domestically and another $92 million from overseas markets, the movie’s cumulative global haul stands at $152 million against a reported budget of $80 million. This puts Wuthering Heights ahead of the $150 million that director S.S. Rajamouli‘s RRR earned in 2022. The epic historical action movie, which hails from India, rode a wave of positive buzz all the way to a Best Original Song Oscar. It emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of the year and a word-of-mouth sensation in the United States. RRR, which tells a fictional story about real-life freedom fighters in Colonial India, holds a “Certified Fresh” 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Rajamouli is now putting together his long-awaited follow-up, a large-scale action-adventure film titled Varanasi, set to be released in 2027. You can watch Wuthering Heights in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.