The erotic thriller has crossed Regretting You's worldwide haul but mixed word-of-mouth means It Ends With Us still owns the crown by a wide margin.
Three weeks in, Verity has quietly climbed into second place among Colleen Hoover's big-screen adaptations, and it did it without cracking the North American top five this past week.
The Dakota Johnson thriller pulled in $564,000 domestically on its third Monday, a steep 65.5% drop from the week before, per Koimoi's tracking of Box Office Mojo numbers. That takes its US total to $66.5 million. Add the international haul and the film sits at $145.7 million worldwide, roughly $5 million shy of the $150 million mark.
That number is enough to push Verity past Regretting You's $90.5 million lifetime worldwide gross, making it the second-biggest Hoover adaptation at the global box office, ahead of both Regretting You and Reminders of Him.
It Ends With Us is still nowhere close to being caught. The Blake Lively starrer closed its run at $351.4 million worldwide, more than double what Verity has managed so far, and the gap isn't one a film losing two-thirds of its Monday crowd week over week is going to close.
Word of mouth has been the issue. Koimoi notes the reception has been mixed, which tends to show up exactly where Verity is showing up, a domestic run that's fallen out of the weekly top five barely three weeks after opening on October 2. International audiences have carried more of the load, which is why the worldwide figure still looks healthy even as the US numbers thin out.
The story, for anyone catching up, follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer brought in to ghostwrite for bestselling author Verity Crawford, who stumbles on disturbing, confessional notes that pull her into something far darker than a book deal. It's the kind of premise that travels well on the page, and Hoover's fanbase has shown up for it on screen too, just not at It Ends With Us levels.
Whether Verity gets anywhere near that $150 million worldwide milestone depends on how it holds through its fourth weekend, when word of mouth either steadies a film or finishes it off. For now, second place among Hoover adaptations is the number that counts, and it's not nothing. But the distance to number one hasn't moved much, and nothing in this week's numbers suggests it's about to.
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