Colleen Hoover can't miss at the box office right now. Verity, the film adaptation of her bestselling thriller starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett, took the weekend with an estimated $32.6 million domestic and $62 million worldwide — more than two and a half times the haul of second-place Resident Evil ($12.5 million) and another hit for Amazon MGM's Hoover pipeline.
The weekend's other big story was the size of the flop. Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Tom Cruise satire, opened to just $8 million domestic and $20 million worldwide against a reported $125–150 million production budget plus roughly $100 million in marketing. Audiences graded it a C+ CinemaScore and critics landed around 51 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes — a rare double miss for a director of Iñárritu's stature.
The reshuffling extended to the record books: the Avengers: Endgame re-release earned another $4.4 million domestic, nudging its worldwide total to roughly $2.9255 billion — back ahead of Avatar ($2.9237 billion) as the highest-grossing film of all time, unadjusted for inflation. Brad Pitt's Heart of the Beast held third with $11 million ($38.4 million domestic total), and A24's Primetime tied Digger at about $8 million in its second weekend.
Hollywood's takeaway from the weekend is a familiar one in 2026: mid-budget IP with a built-in audience prints money, while auteur passion projects at blockbuster budgets face a brutal math. Verity's producers, meanwhile, are already talking sequels.
