Anne Hathaway’s Twisted New Thriller Officially Hits Major Milestone Despite Being Removed From 1,100 Theaters

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. 

Having lost a significant chunk of its theater count and been made available on the PVOD market, a new psychological thriller looks set to conclude its box-office run with a solid but unspectacular haul. The movie was expected to hit benchmarks set by recent hits such as It Ends with Us and The Housemaid, which grossed $350 million and $400 million at the worldwide box office, respectively. Like those films, the new thriller is based on a bestseller with a massive built-in audience. However, even David Fincher‘s similarly targeted Gone Girl grossed more than twice as much as the new film.

The film stars Anne Hathaway in the lead role, following a terrific 2026 run that includes movies such as The Odyssey and The Devil Wears Prada 2. Combined, those two films have grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide. More recently, Hathaway starred in the sci-fi thriller The End of Oak Street, which generated around $120 million globally against a reported budget of $80 million. Unlike all three of those films, the new thriller received poor reviews. It now holds a 31% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which also happens to be way lower than the scores posted by It Ends with Us and The Housemaid.

Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.

Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.

• He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
• Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
• The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
• You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.

Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.

• But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
• Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
• Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
• You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.

Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.

• You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
• The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
• Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
• Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.

Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.

• The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
• You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
• That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
• It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.

Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.

• You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
• Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
• Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
• Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.

Here’s How Much the Thriller Has Grossed at the Box Office So Far

• Sony Pictures

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Sony Pictures

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

• Sony Pictures

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

• Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Sony Pictures

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

Image via Amazon MGM Studios

We’re talking, of course, about Verity. Also starring Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, the movie was directed by Michael Showalter. With its domestic theater count having dropped from around 3,500 to around 2,400, the movie grossed $3 million in its third weekend, taking its running haul past the $70 million milestone. Globally, the film has generated $160 million so far, against a reported budget of $40 million. This puts Verity between other psychological thrillers based on bestsellers such as Where the Crawdads Sing and The Girl on the Train. On October 27, the movie was released on the PVOD market, where it’s expected to deliver huge results.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

Verity is a psychological thriller centering on Lowen Ashleigh, a writer hired to complete novels for Verity Crawford, a bestselling author incapacitated by an accident. As Lowen works at the Crawford residence, she unravels unsettling truths about Verity, intensifying the tension within the household.