‘Verity’ Thrills $4.5M Previews, ‘Digger’ Shovels $1M+ – Box Office Update — SkimNews
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- Verity (Amazon MGM, Colleen Hoover adaptation starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett) grossed $4.5M in previews and is tracking toward a $30M+ opening weekend
- Verity's $4.5M trails Hoover's It Ends With Us ($7M previews, $50M opening) but outpaces Reminders of Him from earlier this year ($1.9M previews, $17.9M opening)
- Digger (Warner Bros, Tom Cruise starring, Alejandro Iñárritu directed, production budget $125M-$160M+) pulled in just $1.2M in previews, described as 'soft everywhere'
- Digger's $1.2M falls well below last fall's One Battle After Another ($3.1M previews, $22M opening), and the film is now expected to be lucky to crack $10M in North America
- Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy are reportedly not making the jump to the new combined Paramount-Warner Bros merger, per word that leaked the same night as the previews
Why it matters: Digger's $1.2M preview haul against a $125M-$160M+ production budget puts Warner Bros on track for a sub-$10M domestic opening, a catastrophic gap for a film of that scale and star power. For Amazon MGM, Verity's $4.5M keeps the Colleen Hoover novel-to-screen pipeline alive but at roughly half the trajectory of It Ends With Us's $50M opening.
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