Hathaway leads 4 out of these 5 films. 3 of them are locked box office successes; Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, and Colleen Hoover's Verity which is a cheap production with a built-in fandom, we saw how successful It Ends With Us was; same author, another best-selling book.
The other two are bold originals with very uncertain box office potential: the first in April is Mother Mary by David Lowery; an epic pop melodrama thriller with queer elements from A24 where Anne plays a pop star in descent. We get to hear Anne sing in this one. It features music from Gen Z star Charli XCX.
Abdy & Luca just did an interview celebrating their 2025 year of successes. In it, they boasted marketing films as "mystery boxes" being very effective marketing especially with young viewers. The second Anne Hathaway-led original is a perfect example of that; Warner's Flowervale Street next August.
Directed by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows), Hathaway and Ewan McGregor play parents in Flowervale Street. It's described as a Twilight Zone style sci-fi thriller. The plot is kept under wraps, but they're teasing out unsettling events and some pre-historic element involving dinosaurs in an urban setting in the 1980s! How much dinosaur though with a purported budget of $85M? Adam Driver's 2023 dinosaur film 65 cost $45M, so I'm definitely intrigued; Abdy & Luca are not wrong.
So, by the end of 2026, Anne Hathaway will have headlined projects in theaters from 5 major studios and touched almost every major demographic: the prestige A24 crowd, the nostalgia-driven comedy fans, the summer blockbuster seekers, the sci-fi nerds, and the thriller-loving book community. It is a rare "grand slam" of a year for any actor.
by LackingStory
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Remember that ridiculous hate train against her in the early-mid 2010’s? Glad to see she is still going stronger than ever.
I just heard about this on a podcast and I was thinking “how is that possible?” But as the host pointed out some of these were shot years ago and are just coming out now.
Flowervale Street sounds commercial. The delay is because Universal pulled together a surprise Jurassic 7 and Warners had to move away from it.
Mother Mary’s also been in post for a very long time. Hopefully it’s a return to form for David Lowery. He’s made a bunch of excellent movies, but Peter Pan and Wendy was a disaster.
2026 is the year where every star is in something big.
And I will be seated for each and every single one of them.
What in the name of god have they done to Josh Hartnett’s face in that last poster
VERITY
I cant believe I finished this book. It reads like a rambling tiktok comment.
Interested in Mother Mary.
Can’t wait for Mother Mary, heard the director kind of was artistically “winging it” but those visuals look so good.
She’s ulting
what in the actual fuck is that (i assume) fan-made Verity poster 😭
it doesn’t even make sense in the context of the story? unless i’m forgetting something lol
Verity is going to make so much money. It’s the second most popular Colleen Hoover book.
AI slop post
Right now she is 121th in the list of the highest grossing actors ([link](https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-star-records/worldwide/lifetime-acting/top-grossing-leading-stars)), between Zendaya and Margot Robbie, curious to see in which position she will be at one year from now…
That is NOT Josh Hartnett…
I just looked up the plot of Verity and wtf? No surprise it’s a Colleen Hoover book
I will never not be a fan of her.
I think all of these will be hits at the box office except for Flowervale Street and Mother Mary.
Critically wise, I expect The Odyssey and probably Devil Wears Prada 2 to get good reviews at least, Mother Mary also too maybe but the long delays have me kinda worried, I don’t really expect Verity or Flowervale Street to get good reviews so far.
these first three played back to back trailers before The Testament of Ann Lee this evening. i was stunned by how much hathaway is getting dumped on us this year, after such a drought!
I wonder if coming near the Devil wears Prada can help the box office of Mother Mary
She’s busy!
(Whispers) “It came true.”
Who are those people on that Verity poster cause I *know* that’s not Dakota and Josh.
LMAO!! What is with that ghetto-ass fake Verity poster?? That’s not even Josh Hartnett…