Anne Hathaway Positioned for a Third Weekend Atop the Box Office This Year With "Verity"

"Verity" opens in theaters this weekend with industry projections pointing to an opening of about $35 million. The film is based on the best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover and stars Anne Hathaway. If the projection holds, it would be the third film this year to place Hathaway first in the weekend rankings. The $35 million figure is a forecast, and the final opening total will be known after the weekend's ticket sales are counted. For Beverly Hills readers, the weekend gross is the usual measure of how a new release has been received, and this one turns on whether a single performer can lead the weekly chart three times in one calendar year.

With reporting from Variety Film.