Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it! Anne Hathaway makes it look easy with a whopping five movies this year. Cinephiles and BookTokers, alike, should be pleased with the Oscar winner’s far-reaching slate, writes Film & TV Editor Cillian Howley.
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We’ve had Hot Girl, Barbie and Brat summers, is it too early to say we have an Anne Hathaway summer on our hands? Whether you like it or not, it will be hard to avoid the Oscar winner who has an astounding five films hitting cinemas in the very near future. If all things go well, every person on the planet will be watching Hathaway on the big screen this year. With The Devil Wears Prada 2 and The Odyssey, she might just have every demographic covered.
If two blockbusters won’t satiate your Hatha-hunger, you’re in luck. Hathaway will first appear in psychothriller Mother Mary as a pop star entangled in a torrid affair. Juicy. Filming began in 2023 and concluded in 2024. Her Vogue cover story last August indicated a 2025 release that did not come. Good things come to those who wait but these delays inspire apprehension. Regardless, Hathaway alongside Michaela Coel and Hunter Schafer, belting original songs from Charli xcx and FKA twigs should at least be a nice starter before the main course arrives.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 literally kicks off summer, strutting into cinemas the first weekend of May. This spot is usually reserved for superheroes but with that genre faltering, a more fashionable, red-bottom clad quartet is stepping up. So set down the capes (unless designed by Gucci). Round two of Anne Hathaway versus Meryl Streep should make for a better showdown than Robert Downey Jr. and the straggling Avengers in Doomsday anyway.
Still, the cynic in me is wary of nostalgia-bait even in its most appealing ensembles. Madonna’s Vogue almost distracts from the muted grey tones and underwhelming fashion on display in the trailer. That said, there are many interesting potential avenues for the film to take. The fictional Runway will no doubt be flailing in the age of TikTok and AI like its real-life counterpart. Miranda’s iconic cerulean sweater monologue is all the more relevant. Plus the inspiration for Priestly, Anna Wintour, has been replaced as editor-in-chief at long last.
As Andy Sachs returns to Runway, Anne Hathaway returns to A-List movie stardom. The original film similarly renewed Streep’s commercial cred decades into her career. Out in July, The Odyssey might be the perfect synthesis of Hathaway’s career highlights. She reteams with Christopher Nolan, the director of some of her biggest hits The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar. On top of that, she’s playing royalty twenty five years after her breakthrough role as Princess of Genovia Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries.
If you thought pairing Hathaway with fashion or Greek mythology were great ideas, you might be excited for Hathaway and dinosaurs. As well as opening the summer, she’ll be closing it out. The End of Oak Street from David Robert Mitchell, director of It Follows, will launch in August. In what looks like a Spielberg pastiche, Hathaway will star alongside Ewan McGregor as parents who find their family home swarmed by the prehistoric creatures.
Summer will end before the very busy Hathaway is finished for the year. The next Colleen Hoover adaptation will be out in October. Starring Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett and Hathaway in the titular role, Verity should appease BookTok fans. Despite middling reviews and off-screen controversies, recent It Ends with Us and The Housemaid adaptations have printed money. Critics be damned, Verity will likely follow suit and cap off what will undoubtedly be a banner year for Hathaway.
Not since 2012 has Hathaway really had two big movies in a single year, much less four or five. That year culminated in an Oscar and much undeserved online vitriol. Now, her adoration is near-universal, so much so that every studio in Hollywood is banking on it. They should all make significant returns before they all inevitably merge to form a single ParaWarnerFlix, as monopolies cannibalise the film industry. Alas, even if it has taken fourteen years, it’s about time an actress of Hathaway’s skill and caliber is allowed to reap the fruits of her labour.