Wuthering Heights is a 2026 gothic romance written and directed by Emerald Fennell, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, working from Emily Brontë's 1847 novel. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in late January 2026 before opening wide on Valentine's Day weekend, positioned as a lush, provocative reinvention of one of English literature's most enduring tragedies.
Margot Robbie stars as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, the foundling whose all-consuming bond with Cathy curdles into obsession and revenge across the windswept Yorkshire moors. Hong Chau appears as the housekeeper Nelly Dean, with Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton and Alison Oliver as Isabella, as class, jealousy and thwarted desire tear two families apart over a generation.
Fennell shoots the material with the heightened, sensual style that has become her signature, splitting critics down the middle even as audiences turned out: the film grossed more than $240 million worldwide against an $80 million budget. Reviews were sharply divided over how its explicit, contemporary sensibility served Brontë's story, but few disputed its visual ambition. It is streaming on HBO Max.
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