Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway in “The End of Oak Street.”
Warner Bros. Pictures
It’s been a busy year for Anne Hathaway at the movies, but not every film she stars in has been a hit.
After a complete absence from the big screen in 2025, Hathaway returned with a vengeance in 2026. Unfortunately for the Les Misérables Oscar winner, her return to the marquee in the title role in the psychological thriller Mother Mary was a bust.
After it opened in theaters in limited release on April 17 and expanded to about 1,100 venues a week later, Mother Mary ended its disastrous run on May 21 with a global box office tally of $3 million against a reported $20 million production budget before prints and advertising costs.
It didn’t take long for Hathaway to recover, though, as she reteamed with Meryl Streep a week after the wide release of Mother Mary for the premiere of their fashion comedy The Devil Wears Prada 2. The film kicked off the summer movie season with a bang on May 1 with an opening weekend of $76.7 million in domestic ticket sales.
By the time The Devil Wears Prada 2 wrapped up its theatrical run, it earned $229.5 million domestically and $472.5 million internationally for a blockbuster worldwide box office tally of $693 million against a $100 million production budget before P&A.
Hathaway followed up her turn in The Devil Wears Prada 2 by playing the pivotal role of Queen Penelope opposite Matt Damon’s Greek King of Ithaca, Odysseus, in Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. To date, the film has earned $593.1 million in North American ticket sales, against a $250 million production budget before P&A, Combined with $1.061 billion in international ticket sales, The Odyssey has a running global box office tally of $1.654 billion.
Unfortunately for Hathaway, another box office dud came calling on Aug. 14, when she and Ewan McGregor headlined the sci-fi action thriller The End of Oak Street. To date, the film has earned $52.3 million domestically and $63.8 million internationally for a running global take of $116.1 million against a net production budget of $80 million before P&A (via Deadline).
While an $80 million production budget is modest in comparison to Hathaway’s first two films of the summer, The End of Oak Street still hasn’t provided an end to justify its means. Given that theater owners generally keep half of what they make in ticket sales, by the time the Warner Bros. release wraps up, the studio will no doubt have a lot of ground to make up as it tries to recoup its production and marketing costs, among other expenses.
Unlike Mother Mary, at least there’s still hope for The End of Oak Street, since it is still playing in more than 2,200 North American theaters and more venues internationally. On top of that, another revenue stream will soon open for The End of Oak Street when it arrives on digital streaming via premium video on demand.
‘The End Of Oak Street’ Arrives On PVOD On Tuesday
Produced by J.J. Abrams and written and directed by It Follows filmmaker David Robert Mitchell, The End of Oak Street is set in the early 1980s in the fictional Detroit suburb of Flowervale. In the Oak Street neighborhood of Flowervale live the Platts — Denise (Anne Hathaway) and Greg (Ewan McGregor) — but a widening gap in their marriage threatens to tear their family life apart.
Despite Denise and Greg’s differences, the couple must band together with their teen daughter and pre-teen son (Maisy Stell and Christian Convery) in a fight for survival. It appears that some sort of cosmic anomaly has opened up a time portal and transported their entire neighborhood back to prehistoric times, and the family’s chances of finding their way back to the 1980s are very slim.
Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment recently announced that The End of Oak Street will arrive on PVOD on Tuesday, Sept. 15, on a variety of digital platforms, including Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Prime Video and YouTube Movies & TV.
Rated PG-13, The End of Oak Street will be available for purchase on the platforms for $24.99, and since most PVOD rentals are $5 less than purchase prices, the film should be available for viewers to rent for $19.99 for a 48-hour period.
The End of Oak Street was well-received on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, where it earned a “fresh” 86% critics’ score based on 325 reviews. Audiences, meanwhile, awarded the film a 76% “fresh” score on RT’s Popcornmeter based on 2,500 verified user ratings.
Beyond the pending PVOD release of The End of Oak Street, there are bigger questions that remain for Hathaway given the lukewarm reception of the film at the box office. Following the releases of Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2 and The Odyssey, is it too early to ask the obvious question, “With four film releases so far this year, is Anne Hathaway simply too overexposed?”
Perhaps we’ll get an answer on Oct. 2, when Anne Hathaway joins Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett in her fifth release of 2026, the psychological thriller Verity.
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