February 2026 release for Wuthering Heights

Well, forget about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights getting a late 2025 release as now it's been announced on Instagram and it's all over the news that it will open on Valentine's Day weekend 2026 (not a pink-heart Valentine's Day sort of story (and film, if done right) but whatever). From Variety:

Emerald Fennell‘s adaptation of the classic gothic romance “Wuthering Heights” is coming to the big screen just in time for Valentine’s Day. Warner Bros. will release the film from MRC on Feb. 13, 2026.

Fennell serves as writer, director and producer on the project based on Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, which stars Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver and Shazad Latif. MRC and Robbie’s LuckyChap also produce.

“Wuthering Heights” marks the second collaboration between MRC, LuckyChap and Fennell after the breakout hit “Saltburn,” and the third collaboration with LuckyChap and Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”). (Katcy Stephan)

The Hollywood Reporter adds:

Also set to hit theaters in February 2026 is an untitled Marvel feature and Scream 7. (Mia Galuppo)

Strange company.

And Deadline puts the it's-just-for-girls touch.

The Margot Robbie-Jacob Elordi starring, LuckyChap production based on the Emily Brontë novel is a clear destination for female audiences over that period. Already on Feb. 13, 2026 is another female-demo movie, Universal’s feature take of Colleen Hoover novel, Reminders of Him. Sony also has the animated feature, Goat from Tyree Dillihay. (Anthony D'Alessandro)

Colleen Hoover and Emily Brontë, sisters from different misters (and times). Yep, absolutely the same kind of target audience that will break their tender Valentine's Day hearts trying to decide which one to see.

Also reported by IndieWire, ScreenDaily, The Wrap, and many others.

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First-person perspective is common to fiction because it allows the author to develop characters while also filling out the world in which the story takes place. Jane Eyre’s passions are informed by her descriptions of Rochester’s home. Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man presents his Russian milieu as a reflection of his own impotence. Humbert Humbert’s description of American motels in the travelogue section of Lolita underscores his broken moral compass. As this last example demonstrates, first-person narration allows for unreliable narrators, storytellers whose limitations (ethical, situational, or otherwise) make the reader doubt the person guiding them through the world.

Try as they might, filmmakers haven’t had as much success translating the technique to screen. (Joe George)

A column from Offaly Express remembers 'the famous and the dead in Banagher'.

Another thing I love about Banagher is its literary associations. Trollope worked in the town's Post Office for three years and foxhunted locally. Charlotte Brontë married local man Arthur Bell Nicholls and spent her honeymoon in elegant Cuba Court (sadly long since demolished).

Another of the town's originals is James Scully. The former teacher and local historian has done so much for the area. He is also one of the driving forces behind the year old Banagher Brontë Group, which was a great idea and is proving very successful.

On Saturday the group welcomed the famous novelist Martina Devlin to Crank House for the launch of her excellent novel “Charlotte”. Martina is one of Ireland's most talented novelists and she impressed us all with her knowledge of the Brontës and her love of the subject matter.

The following day the Banagher Brontë Group attended the midday service in St Paul's Church where the new incumbent clergyman Rev John McGinty gave a thought-provoking and inspiring sermon to the congregation.

Rev McGinty is originally from Massachusetts and he told The Midland Tribune that his new life in the midlands of Ireland feels like “a great adventure.”

Rev McGinty told the congregation that Saint Paul's Church at Banagher was very happy to welcome members of the Banagher Brontë Group “for the annual wreath-laying at the resting place in the churchyard here of Arthur Bell Nicholls.”

Rev McGinty added that The Brontë Group “is today commendably celebrating the town's heritage, and the link of this town and church with Charlotte Brontë, her life and work.

“This shines a light on a significant person in her life, her husband, Banagher's Arthur Bell Nicholls. It also shines a light on a very important and happy time in Charlotte's life, her honeymoon.

“Here in St Paul's we are very happy to support and encourage these ongoing and deepening efforts.”

Outside it was cold and blue-skied. A small gathering stood beside the impressive tombstones of the Bell family while a few words were said. Joanne Wilcock, from Lancashire and a member of the Brontë Society in Haworth, said it was a special moment for her to lay a wreath at Arthur Bell Nicholls' grave. She said Arthur was “a true gentleman, with the emphasis on the word gentle. Arthur worked tirelessly as a curate. In this regard, while living in Haworth, he became a rock for his father-in-law providing invaluable assistance as Patrick became older. For a long time Patrick didn't want Arthur as his son-in-law but Arthur was in love and therefore he showed great determination. He never gave up and eventually he married the love of his life, Charlotte. After Patrick's death it was a great blow to Arthur when he wasn't offered the curacy in Haworth, another of life's countless cruelties. But he returned to Banagher, forged a new life, and married his cousin Mary Anna. For 42 years Arthur and Mary Anna offered each other those great blessings of marriage, namely companionship and emotional support.” (Derek Fanning)