Wake Up! It’s Time For The Monday Morning Hangover Report For February 20–22, 2026

Every Monday, on the aptly named Monday Morning Hangover Report, we break down the weekend box office: who won, who didn’t, and what the numbers are really saying about what audiences want right now. It’s your post-weekend debrief with a little cocktail bite.

Opening Pour

After last weekend’s Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day sugar rush, the box office came back down to earth a bit like a drunken sailor back at sea. This was a quieter frame across the board, with holdovers swapping places up top as mothers and fathers realized they had kids post Valentine’s Day and there was a movie they could go see as a family… And new releases mostly failied to break through in a meaningful way. The headline: GOAT hopped over Wuthering Heights in a close race for #1, while the rest of the chart looked like a mix of “solid enough” and “we’ll take it.”

Top 5 Domestic Films

(Weekend of Feb 20–22, 2026, BoxOfficeMojo weekend estimates)

  1. GOAT — $17,000,000

  2. Wuthering Heights — $14,200,000

  3. I Can Only Imagine 2 — $8,000,000

  4. Crime 101 — $5,772,552

  5. Send Help — $4,500,000

Recap

  • Total Top 10 gross: $62,939,719, down sharply from last weekend’s $106,720,706.

  • The top two simply traded places: GOAT held well (down 37.5%) while Wuthering Heights dropped harder (down 56.7%) after its holiday-fueled opening.

  • New releases mostly landed in the “fine” zone, but nothing came close to a breakout.

Highlights and insights

1) GOAT wins the weekend by having legs

A $17M second weekend is exactly what you want from family animation: steady, reliable, and resilient after a holiday frame. This is the kind of hold that keeps a movie in the mix for weeks, not days.

2) Wuthering Heights still strong, but that drop stings

$14.2M in weekend two is not a disaster, but a 56.7% drop suggests the holiday bump did a lot of heavy lifting. The real question now is whether it stabilizes or continues to slide. Romance can be front-loaded, and post-Valentine’s gravity is real.

3) I Can Only Imagine 2 opens decently, not explosively

An $8M debut is respectable for a faith-based sequel, but it reads more like a solid niche turnout than a “must-see” moment. If audience word-of-mouth is strong, this is the kind of title that can play steady for several weeks.

4) The sleeper flex: Elvis in IMAX

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert did $3.25M on only 325 locations, which is a spicy per-theater average and a reminder that “event cinema” still works when it’s positioned right.

5) The “who didn’t” list

If you’re looking for the faceplant energy: Psycho Killer came in soft at $1.6M, and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die slid to $1.55M in weekend two. That’s a rough combo of weak awareness plus a crowded marketplace where audiences already picked their weekend lanes last frame.

NOTE: If you haven’t or aren’t planning on see Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, then you are doing yourself a disservice. It’s poignant and funny; not an easy thing to do. And watching it may make you rethink some of your current digital habits…

What’s next

  • Expect a bigger weekend frame next weekend. The press is already pointing at Scream 7 as the kind of release that can jolt late February awake.

  • The bigger story to watch: Do GOAT and Wuthering Heights hold through the next wave, or do they fade the second something shinier shows up?

Final Pour

This weekend was the comedown after a holiday high. GOAT proved it has real staying power, Wuthering Heights showed it can still play even after the Valentine’s halo fades, and the newcomers mostly landed in “fine” territory without changing the game. The box office did not collapse, but it definitely exhaled. Now we see who’s got legs when the next big genre title steps into the ring. 🍸🍿

Monday Morning Hangover Report