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Box Office: February 20-22, 2026

The theatrical movie box office results for February 20, 2026 through February 22, 2026 have been released.

The Box Office

GOAT was Number One at the United States box office over the weekend with $16.8 Million (a 38% drop from last weekend) for $58.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $102.1 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $80-90 Million.

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Wuthering Heights was Second at the United States box office over the weekend with $14 Million (a 57% drop from last weekend) for $59.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $151.5 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $80 Million.

I Can Only Imagine 2 premiered in Third Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $7.7 Million. Worldwide, the film has made $7.7 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $18 Million.

Crime 101 was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $5.5 Million (a 61% drop from last weekend) for $24.4 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $45.8 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $90 Million.

Send Help was Fifth at the United States box office with $4.4 Million (a 50% drop from last weekend) for $55.4 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $82.9 Million, on a production budget (not including marketing costs) of $40 Million.

These films: How to Make a Killing, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Solo Mio, Zootopia 2, and Avatar: Fire and Ash rounded out the top ten respectively.

This Week’s Releases

This week sees the release of Scream 7 and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Scream 7 will be the Number One film at the box office.

The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)

“A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.

By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.

Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.

To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.

Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor’s share of the box office gross is often referred to as the “distributor rentals”, especially for box office reporting of older films.”

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