Colleen Hoover’s readers showed up. Verity, the Amazon MGM Studios thriller starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, opened to $62.5 million worldwide, including $32.6 million domestically, according to Deadline.
That makes it the second-biggest opening ever for a Hoover adaptation, behind only It Ends With Us and its $95.6 million worldwide start in like-for-like markets. Verity topped the global launches of Regretting You ($23.6 million) and Reminders of Him ($28.1 million), and even beat Practical Magic 2’s $46 million worldwide opening. The film cost $40 million to make.
The domestic audience was 78 percent female, though the film also drew in viewers who never read the book and male moviegoers. Overseas, it opened at No. 1 in the UK ($4.5 million), Germany ($3.8 million), Brazil ($3.8 million) and Australia ($3.1 million), with Taiwan, Korea and Japan still to come. As TDN reported, the film held its New York premiere days before opening only in theaters on October 2.
Update: Monday’s final numbers held at $32.6 million domestic, and the opening is shaping up as a milestone for its stars. Anne Hathaway now has her third No. 1 movie of 2026, following The Devil Wears Prada 2 and The Odyssey, with Verity marking her fifth release of the year, per ComingSoon. The debut is also Dakota Johnson’s biggest domestic opening in eight years, since Fifty Shades Freed, according to ComicBasics.