Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat” is getting exactly the sort of legs that both its studio and theaters have been hoping for, earning a $17 million second weekend on a slow frame for the box office to take No. 1 after opening second behind Warner Bros.’ “Wuthering Heights.”
This is just a 38% drop from the original film’s $27.2 million 3-day opening on Valentine’s Day weekend, bringing its 10-day domestic total to $58.3 million. That’s slightly ahead of the $54.2 million two-weekend total for DreamWorks’ January 2025 release “Dog Man,” putting “Goat” on pace to reach $100 million domestic.
“Wuthering Heights” isn’t holding as strongly from its $32.8 million 3-day opening but is still earning a decent second weekend of $14.2 million, bringing its domestic total to $60 million and its global total to $151 million. As expected, the film is holding stronger overseas with a 40% overall drop in international markets, led by a $5.5 million second weekend in the U.K. with a $22.5 million cume.
In third is the sole newcomer in the top 5: Lionsgate/Kingdom Story Company’s “I Can Only Imagine 2” with an $8 million opening from 3,105 locations. That is little less than half the $17.2 million opening that the first “I Can Only Imagine” made in 2018 but should still turn a small theatrical profit given the sequel’s $18 million budget and strong reception among Christian audiences, who gave it an A+ on CinemaScore.
Holdovers complete the top 5, with Amazon MGM’s “Crime 101” taking fourth with $5.6 million in its second weekend, suffering the largest second weekend drop of the Valentine’s Day releases with a 61% slide. While it will pass Amazon’s January bust “Mercy” during its run, “Crime 101” will fall well short of its reported $90 million budget despite stronger reception, earning a domestic 10-day total of $24.5 million.
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