{"id":37279,"date":"2026-08-10T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37279"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:50:30","slug":"anne-hathaway-on-her-busy-year-of-movies-adaptation-of-yesteryear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37279","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway on Her Busy Year of Movies, Adaptation of &#8216;Yesteryear&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s eight months into 2026 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/anne-hathaway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_anne-hathaway_1\" data-tag=\"anne-hathaway\">Anne Hathaway<\/a> is about to release her fourth movie of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe star is on quite a run, with her latest film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-end-of-oak-street\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-end-of-oak-street_1\" data-tag=\"the-end-of-oak-street\">The End of Oak Street<\/a><\/em> joining her recent releases <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-odyssey_1\" data-tag=\"the-odyssey\">The Odyssey<\/a><\/em>, <em>Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> and <em>Mother Mary<\/em>; and she\u2019s not even done, with an adaptation of Colleen Hoover\u2019s <em>Verity<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/verity-trailer-anne-hathaway-dakota-johnson-1236578548\/\">coming in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWhen I got my schedule for this year from all the wonderful film studios that I\u2019ve worked with, I saw it and I kind of thought I was being punked,\u201d Hathaway admitted to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> at <em>The End of Oak Street<\/em> premiere on Sunday. \u201cBut then they showed me that no, no, no, all these [release] dates were going to hold and I just said as long as audiences don\u2019t get sick of my face \u2014 which I wouldn\u2019t blame them, I would not blame them if they did\u2014 let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe continued of her busy and wide-ranging slate, \u201cI think it\u2019s fun. Obviously I love making movies, take a look, but I also love that audiences want to go see original things and this movie is really original. It\u2019s David Robert Mitchell in the director\u2019s chair, directing a script that he wrote, and I\u2019ve never seen anything like this so I was just really happy to be a part of it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/end-of-oak-street-trailer-anne-hathaway-ewan-mcgregor-1236562142\/\">The End of Oak Street<\/a><\/em> sees Hathaway starring alongside Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery\u00a0as a family trying to survive when their neighborhood mysteriously uproots and they find themselves surrounded by dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnd it\u2019s not the only sci-fi on the actress\u2019 plate, as Hathaway is set to write and produce a big-screen adaptation of Caro Claire Burke\u2019s smash novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/yesteryear\/\" id=\"auto-tag_yesteryear_1\" data-tag=\"yesteryear\">Yesteryear<\/a><\/em>. The book is one of the biggest of 2026, having spent 17 weeks on the <em>New York Times <\/em>Best Sellers list, and follows a tradwife influencer who finds herself transported back to the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSpeaking for the first time about the project on the carpet, Hathaway noted, \u201cThat\u2019s been a really fun discovery because I read a draft two years ago and I knew the intense feeling that I had for it, so it\u2019s been really fun watching people discover it. I have friends writing me, they\u2019re like \u2018What, how?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe continued, \u201cOne of my friends wrote me and said \u2018I can\u2019t remember the last time that I immediately re-read a book.\u2019 People are just loving it and I couldn\u2019t be happier for Caro, what a triumph for her. And now we just have to do the movie justice.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the meantime, <em>The End of Oak Street<\/em> hits theaters on Friday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s eight months into 2026 and Anne Hathaway is about to release her fourth movie of the year. 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