Is Colleen Hoover the box office’s new secret weapon?
A case could be made after 2024’s “It Ends With Us” became a sleeper hit for Sony and “Regretting You” was one of Paramount’s only 2025 films to turn a theatrical profit. In 2026, the prolific author has two more movies based on her bestselling novels. First is March’s romantic drama “Reminders of Him” from Universal, followed by October’s psychosexual thriller “Verity” from Amazon MGM. There’s a reason Hoover is in such demand: Her genre-spanning work is resonating when women aren’t going to theaters for much else.
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