Verity suffers a 63% second-weekend drop despite a strong start for Anne Hathaway's thriller
The readers showed up. The next challenge is reaching everyone else. Verity, the psychological thriller starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, opened at the top of the North American box office in early October. One week later, its weekend revenue had fallen by almost two-thirds. The film remains in second place and has already earned more than $54 million domestically, but its trajectory highlights a familiar difficulty for Hollywood: a bestselling book can generate immediate excitement without necessarily guaranteeing long-term theatrical momentum.