Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights - A $100 Million Bet on Classic Movie Tactics...

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Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with emotion that you could just die… and I mean literally? Well then you may be a character in Emily Bronte’s romantic, gothic tragedy Wuthering Heights, which is getting a new retelling in a movie starring Margo Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and we will have to see if she can transform from a Barbie Bombshell to a magnate of the moors when the movie is released theatrically on February 13th 2026, just in time for valentine’s weekend. So boyfriends out there… plan ahead and start marking your calendars now or you may end up using tissues for something else other than tears that weekend….

The movie started preproduction with a lot of fuss already as when the film was first introduced it quickly started a bidding war between Netflix and Warner Brothers Pictures over the distribution rights. Netflix offered an astounding $150 million dollars, but Warner won out with a far lower bid of $80 million because the director Emerald Fennell and Robbie wanted to have a full theatrical release for the film. It seems like they really are pushing to keep with traditional film practices for this one with it being more and more common for films to go straight to streaming and completely forgo a proper theatrical release or to have a very limited one. And in this vein they also have reportedly filmed it on 35 mm film, instead of doing it digitally which is by far the most common practice in the industry. Digital filming is generally cheaper and easier in most circumstances as it gives creators the freedom to shoot much longer with less down time since with film physical rolls have to be changed often leading to down time and you literally have to pay per foot when filming, so it is best to minimize shots that aren’t likely going to be needed for the final cut. But with digital you can shoot to your heart's content and have more freedom to take risks with shots that may or may not work out at all, since recording and storing it just takes data, which is relatively cheap, easy to use and renewable.

To give you an idea of how rare it is to shoot on film for professional level productions - I have worked on about 30ish movies and tv shows in the last year and a half and I don’t believe a single one shot on film, at least for any of the scenes I was part of. But that is not to say that film does not have some advantages - it has a much longer history of use so support and knowledge of film as a medium is extensive and although filmed images are permanent - that is both a positive and a negative as you now have a copy that will last forever if kept properly and doesn’t risk data corruption issues like digital can. Film also generally comes out developed looking great already, while digital video generally needs color correction during editing to make it have a proper cinematic look. If you want an example of what this means *snap*- this video right now is what would come out when shooting in the RAW digital format, which like its name implies, is just the raw image data with little to no processing by the camera. Generally the way digital cameras work is they process this data to change it to colors that are either what we would expect in terms of how our brains process them or to make them more cinematic and this is either done in camera while filming in different formats or during editing, which can make things look far different depending on the look someone is going for - like this! *snap* Ok that feels better. All those shots were done with the same camera and same lighting set up, the only thing that changed was how the raw images were processed and colorized. With film that colorization is done automatically as it is developed, so you shoot and it will already have a cinematic look to it without more work.

And back to talking about Wuthering Heights - It sounds like they are willing to risk quite a bit of money to stick with tradition and hopefully that pays off for them. And for anyone who is interested in listening to the original work by Emily Bronte you can listen to it for free on my audiobook channel by following the link either above or in the comments. Also if you are a fan of the Bronte sisters and of murder mystery theater, well I have an oddly specific piece of news for you! I have been cast as Edgar Allan Poe in Murder by the Book which will run in the second week of October in Liberty, SC so if you are interested in a campy comedy starring some of your favorite writers, including Charlotte Bronte, I will put a link to purchase tickets below.

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