Anne Hathaway is heading into an unusually packed 2026 with multiple films dated across the year and several others in the pipeline, reflecting a slate that ranges from prestige literary adaptation to large-scale studio fare. The studio has set The Devil Wears Prada 2 for summer 2026 after cameras rolled in late June with the original core cast returning and new additions alongside them.
Separate schedules place David Robert Mitchell’s suburban sci-fi Flowervale Street on the calendar for mid-August, followed by Verity, adapted from Colleen Hoover’s bestseller, in early October. Another tentpole, a new screen telling of The Odyssey, is dated for mid-July, positioning Hathaway in three wide releases within a three-month span.
The clustering follows a relatively quiet 2025 on the release front as projects finished or advanced through post. Mother Mary, the A24 drama directed by David Lowery in which Hathaway plays a global pop star, remains undated publicly after completing principal photography, with distribution plans still to be announced. The pipeline also includes Alone at Dawn, a fact-based military drama to be directed by Ron Howard and set to star Hathaway opposite Adam Driver, which was unveiled this month and is expected to move into production ahead of the 2026 wave.
The 2026 dates underscore how the actor’s recent run has balanced commercial recognition and director-led material. Flowervale Street teams Hathaway with Mitchell and Warner Bros. on an original concept anchored in family and suburbia; Verity pairs her with a high-visibility literary property and a built-in readership; The Devil Wears Prada 2 returns her to a character that helped define her mainstream career while contemporizing the fashion-media world; The Odyssey signals an ambitious classical reimagining with a firm summer berth. The sequence compresses marketing and awards considerations into a single year while reducing overlap with undated projects, a strategy that could concentrate attention on distinct genres over successive months as the films roll out globally.
