New Sense & Sensibility footage released

The first footage from Georgia Oakley’s *Sense and Sensibility* surfaced this week, giving theater owners an early look at Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. (collider.com) The preview played during Universal and Focus Features’ CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, where studios screened coming attractions for exhibitors from April 13 to April 16, 2026. Collider’s footage description said the clip opens after the Dashwood family patriarch dies and follows the sisters as they face marriage pressure and money trouble. (cinemacon.com, collider.com) Focus Features lists Edgar-Jones, Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, Herbert Nordrum, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, George MacKay and Fiona Shaw in the cast, with Oakley directing and novelist Diana Reid credited as screenwriter. Focus also says the film is set for U.S. theatrical release on October 16, 2026. (focusfeatures.com) The project has shifted since its first release-date announcement. In November 2025, Focus Features said the film would open in the United States on September 11, 2026 and in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2026; the studio’s current film page now lists October 16, 2026 for the United States. (focusfeatures.com, focusfeatures.com) This adaptation arrives during a fresh studio push around Jane Austen on screen. When the film was announced on June 25, 2025, Focus said the project reunited the company and Working Title with Austen material after *Pride & Prejudice* in 2005 and *Emma.* in 2020. (focusfeatures.com) Oakley comes to the novel after *Blue Jean*, her debut feature, and Focus described her as a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award nominee when it unveiled the film. Reid, whose recent novel *Signs of Damage* was released in March 2025, wrote the screenplay adaptation. (focusfeatures.com) The story itself remains one of Austen’s most durable setups: two sisters pushed into financial uncertainty after their father’s death, with Elinor and Marianne responding to love and status in sharply different ways. That contrast is central to the footage description from CinemaCon, which frames Marianne as eager for romance while Elinor holds back. (imdb.com, collider.com) For now, the footage is a trade-show tease rather than a public trailer. The next marker is the film’s fall release, with Focus currently pointing U.S. audiences to October 16, 2026. (focusfeatures.com)