Verity reviews got a box-office answer on Friday: Amazon MGM Studios’ film grossed $14.5 million, including $4.5 million in previews, while tracking toward a $32 million opening at 3,510 sites. Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway now sit inside a weekend estimate that puts the adaptation on the board as a wide release, not a niche launch.
Colleen Hoover at 3,510 Sites
$32 million is the number that frames the first weekend conversation, because it puts Verity in the range that studios use to judge whether a broad rollout is landing. The film’s previews began at 2PM and included early access shows, so the $4.5 million figure is already doing work inside that total rather than standing apart from it.
$7 million in previews is the comparison point that shows the ceiling Colleen Hoover adaptations can reach, since It Ends with Us opened to $50 million after that preview haul. Verity is not there, but the Friday total suggests a sturdy commercial start for a title built around Hoover’s name and a cast led by Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett.
Reminders of Him and Regretting You
$1.9 million in previews and a $17.9 million finish for Reminders of Him give Verity another benchmark, and the gap between those titles is large enough to matter in a first-weekend read. Regretting You did not report preview figures from 500 screens, which leaves Verity with a cleaner opening-day comparison set than that prior release.
$30 million plus had been the weekend outlook by Friday, and the film was still tracking toward $32 million at 3,510 sites. Critics had no patience for Verity, yet the audience-facing part of the business was running ahead of that resistance, which is exactly the sort of split that can keep a theatrical adaptation commercially alive even when review chatter is cold. The audience score on Rotten Tomatoes was not yet available.
Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway
$14.5 million on Friday is the number to watch now, because it leaves the film with a real opening-weekend swing still in play. If the final total lands at or above $32 million, Verity will have justified the scale of its release and given Amazon MGM Studios a useful theatrical result from a Colleen Hoover adaptation built around Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway rather than a slow-burn platform rollout.
