Anne Hathaway’s New Thriller Is Officially a Streaming Sensation After Losing 1,700 Theaters

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Published Oct 31, 2026, 10:15 AM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.

He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

After a tight one-month theatrical window, Amazon MGM has debuted its new thriller on the PVOD market. Starring Anne Hathaway, the movie emerged as a box-office hit, but not nearly as big as this year's other Amazon blockbuster Project Hail Mary. That sci-fi sensation was given an extended theatrical window because of its spectacular performance — this is a luxury that wasn't afforded to Hathaway's new release. The movie was expected to follow in the footsteps of two blockbusters, It Ends with Us and The Housemaid, which grossed $350 million and $400 million worldwide, respectively. Now that the new film is available at home, Amazon pulled it from hundreds more theaters nationwide.

Also featuring Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, the movie in question is based on a bestseller by Colleen Hoover. Also based on a Hoover novel, It Ends with Us emerged as a runaway hit on the back of a massive behind-the-scenes conflict that quickly became public. Two other Hoover adaptations — Reminders of Him and Regretting You — followed and grossed roughly $90 million worldwide each. Even though the new Hathaway film is based on one of Hoover's most popular books, it's still nowhere close to matching the success of It Ends with Us.

Here's How Much the Movie Has Grossed So Far

We're talking, of course, about Verity. Directed by Michael Showalter, the movie has grossed around $165 million worldwide against a reported budget of $40 million. This puts it between fellow psychological thriller adaptation The Girl on the Train, which grossed around $175 million worldwide in 2016, and Where the Crawdads Sing, which made around $145 million worldwide in 2022. Verity received mediocre reviews and is now sitting at a 31% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, "Possessing all the ingredients for a guilty pleasure, Verity leans more towards guilty than pleasurable due to plot twists that are more deflating than intriguing." However, the film's 72% audience score is powering it to success on the PVOD market. According to FlixPatrol, Verity overtook Spider-Man: Brand New Day to become the number-one movie on the domestic Amazon and iTunes charts. At the same time, the film's theater count has fallen from 3,510 in week one to 1,830 this week. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.