Anne Hathaway's 2026: Four Films, a Dinosaur Neighbourhood, and a Bestseller She Bought Before Anyone Else Read It
Anne Hathaway is having one of the busiest years any actor has loaded onto a calendar in recent memory. The Hollywood Reporter, in a profile published 10 August 2026, confirms her 2026 slate spans four films — The Odyssey, Devil Wears Prada 2, Mother Mary, and The End of Oak Street — plus a Colleen Hoover adaptation, Verity, set for an October 2026 release, and a newly announced writing-and-producing project that she chased down two years before the public knew it existed.
That project is Yesteryear, based on Caro Claire Burke's debut novel about a tradwife influencer — a social-media personality romanticising traditional domestic femininity — who is transported back to the 19th century. Hathaway read a draft of the manuscript roughly two years before this week's interview, bought the rights herself, and will both star in and produce the adaptation. The novel went on to spend 17 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list after its April publication. Amazon MGM Studios won the film rights auction, with Hathaway attached to star and produce, according to the Larchmont Chronicle. The BBC, in a 23 July 2026 article on the novel's cultural footprint, corroborates that Hathaway secured the rights and will produce and star.
The Burke novel divided readers, per that BBC piece. What drew Hathaway in early — before the bestseller list, before the auction, before the discourse — she did not specify, but the timeline places her commitment well ahead of the book's public life.
First in line for audiences, though, is The End of Oak Street, which reaches international cinemas on 12 August 2026 and US theatres on 14 August. Warner Bros. Pictures is distributing. David Robert Mitchell — best known for It Follows — wrote, directed, and co-produced the film. The story follows the Platt family after a cosmic event uproots their suburban neighbourhood and deposits it in an unknown place, surrounded by dinosaurs. Hathaway stars alongside Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, and Pilot Bunch, who rounds out the family unit according to a Warner Bros. promotional post from 20 July 2026.
For context: a "slate" in industry terms is simply the roster of films a studio or talent has set for release in a given period. Four films in one year is an unusually high count for a marquee performer, particularly one also writing and producing.
Hathaway's other 2026 titles round out the picture. Mother Mary, an A24 release directed by David Lowery and described as a transformative pop drama, carries her self-described most challenging role yet, per The Hollywood Reporter's July 2025 reporting. The Odyssey and Devil Wears Prada 2 complete the actor's on-screen commitments. The Hoover adaptation Verity adds a fifth release to the queue in October.
Hathaway also announced in June 2026 that she is pregnant and expecting her third child, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed — a personal milestone running parallel to the most crowded professional calendar she has assembled.
What stands out is not any single project but the spread: a dinosaur survival thriller, a prestige pop drama, a sequel nearly two decades in the waiting, a Hoover thriller, and a self-acquired literary adaptation she optioned from a manuscript draft. Few actors build a year across that many tonal registers at once.
