{"id":790374,"date":"2026-10-03T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790374\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:26:11","slug":"verity-soars-digger-buried-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790374\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Verity&#8221; Soars, &#8220;Digger&#8221; Buried In Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/verity-soars-digger-buried-in-previews.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon MGM Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/verity-soars-digger-buried-in-previews.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"verity-soars-digger-buried-in-previews\"\/><\/a>Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>The film adaptation of \u201cIt Ends with Us\u201d author Colleen Hoover\u2019s 2018 novel \u201cVerity\u201d looks set to easily trounce Tom Cruise at the box-office this weekend. Both \u201cVerity\u201d and \u201cDigger\u201d have scored dismal reviews overall, with both titles sitting at just 45\/100 on Metacritic.<\/p>\n<p>The big difference is that with the Cruise-led \u201cDigger,\u201d reactions have varied across the spectrum and resulted in a mixed overall score.  The Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson-led \u201cVerity,\u201d on the other hand, has reviews all sitting around the same \u2018meh\u2019 level.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to money, \u201cVerity\u201d will be the clear winner as it pulled in $4.5 million in previews last night compared to \u201cDigger,\u201d which nabbed just $1.2 million. <\/p>\n<p>The former is on track for an opening weekend around $35 million, not far off its $40 million budget.  \u201cDigger,\u201d on the other hand, which cost at least $125 million (with some putting it much higher), is now looking at a disastrous start below $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Both titles face both the third weekend of \u201cResident Evil\u201d and the second weekend of Marvel\u2019s \u201cAvengers Endgame: Encore\u201d re-release.  Last week\u2019s \u201cHeart of the Beast,\u201d \u201cPrimetime\u201d and \u201cForgotten Island\u201d are also still hanging in there.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as another high-profile title, Aaron Sorkin\u2019s \u201cThe Social Reckoning,\u201d is also looking at a rough start.  That $50 million-budget title opens next week, and numbers are also suggesting a sub-$10 million start \u2013 the movie to be easily trounced by the Jessica Chastain-led horror \u201cOther Mommy\u201d which is targeting a $15-25 million start.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/box-office-verity-digger-1237145435\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios The film adaptation of \u201cIt Ends with Us\u201d author Colleen Hoover\u2019s 2018 novel \u201cVerity\u201d looks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}