1At the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2, Anne Hathaway described her 2026 in these terms: "Three years of work being sent out into the world in a six-month window." Between April and October, she appears in five theatrical releases of markedly different types and scales: the A24 psychological drama Mother Mary; the long-awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2, twenty years in the making; Christopher Nolan's IMAX epic The Odyssey; the sci-fi thriller The End of Oak Street; and Verity, adapted from Colleen Hoover's novel of the same name. No year in her career has been this dense.
The five films differ substantially in both commercial outcome and creative context. Mother Mary, a psychological thriller directed by David Lowery on a $20 million budget, received broadly positive reviews but grossed just $2.9 million worldwide — a result below its production cost, though broadly in line with expectations for an A24 art-house release. The Devil Wears Prada 2 reunited director David Frankel, writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and the full original cast at a $100 million budget, and has since grossed $666.1 million globally; its commercial performance has been strong enough that the studio has publicly discussed a third installment. The Odyssey, Nolan's epic adaptation starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Robert Pattinson — with Hathaway as Penelope — opened today, with early reviews positioning it as a serious awards-season contender. The End of Oak Street, directed by David Robert Mitchell and co-starring Ewan McGregor, is a sci-fi thriller. Verity, directed by Michael Showalter and co-starring Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, carries a $40 million budget; Hoover's three prior adaptations have generated nearly $530 million combined at the global box office, but have received no awards nominations to date.
Hathaway's career box office exceeds $6 billion, with The Dark Knight Rises and Alice in Wonderland both surpassing $1 billion. Her 2026 slate spans five distinct market segments simultaneously — arthouse, franchise sequel, IMAX prestige, genre thriller, and BookTok adaptation — a range that reflects both the breadth of her commercial adaptability and the versatility of her screen persona, while also making it difficult to evaluate the five films' box office performance against any single benchmark.
