The animated film “GOAT” held onto the top spot at the North American box office this weekend, pulling in $17 million from 3,863 theaters in what has been a slow late-February period. The film dropped just 36% from its opening weekend, showing strong legs for a family title.
Close behind was “Wuthering Heights” with $14.2 million from 3,682 venues, though it dropped a steeper 57% from its debut. The fact that a family animated film outpaced a gothic romantic drama starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi highlights just how important family-friendly content has become for cinema operators as the box office continues its slow recovery from the pandemic. It follows a trend seen throughout 2025 where PG films like “Lilo and Stitch,” “Zootopia 2” and “A Minecraft Movie” showed strong staying power and ranked among the year’s biggest releases.
