Amazon MGM Studios' Colleen Hoover Movie ‘Verity' With Anne Hathaway & Dakota Johnson Stakes Out Release Date
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Verity will face off with Warner Bros' untitled Tom Cruise movie from Alejandro G. Iňárritu.
The studio first showed off the trailer to Verity at CinemaCon back in April at their first big splash in Caesars Palace Colosseum Theatre.
The pic follows struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), who is hired as a ghostwriter for renowned author Verity Crawford (Hathaway) under mysterious circumstances. But her assignment takes a dark turn after discovering chilling autobiographical notes. Faced with a series of deadly family secrets, Lowen struggles to separate fiction from reality, while also blurring the lines with Verity's husband, Jeremy (Hartnett). Ismael Cruz Cordóva and Brady Wagner also star.
Nick Antosca adapted with previous scribes being Hoover & Lauren Levine, Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, and Will Honley & April Maguire. Producers are Antosca, Alex Hedlund, Stacey Sher, Showalter, Jordana Mollick, Hathaway and Hoover. EPs are Johnson, Lauren Levine and Kerry Orent.
Production companies are Eat the Cat, Semi-Formal Productions, Shiny Penny, Somewhere Pictures and Heartbones Entertainment.
Verity leaves behind an untitled Neon theatrical release on its previous May 15 date.
Amazon MGM Studios' Project Hail Mary trailer recently notched 400M global views in one week, the most ever for a non-sequel, original movie per WaveMetrix.
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