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Verity Diversifications Will get a Launch Date
Amazon MGM Studios’ adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Verity has been set for big-screen launch Could 15, 2026. By the point the movie is launched, it is going to have been eight years since Hoover initially self-published the e-book and 5 since Grand Central Publishing acquired it for re-release on the heels of Hoover’s TikTok-enabled surge to the highest of the bestseller listing. BookTok has shifted its allegiance to romantasy, and it’s an open query how a lot enthusiasm readers will muster for CoHo one other 14 months from now. Then again, with Anne Hathaway set to star alongside Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, Verity has extra Hollywood firepower than final 12 months’s scandal-plagued It Ends With Us adaptation, which raked it in on the field workplace although it was actually fairly dangerous, and its plot sounds meaningfully much less bananas, sooooo this one is anyone’s guess.
What Everyone seems to be Studying on White Lotus
One factor about White Lotus creator Mike White: he’s going to guarantee that each element within the present means one thing. From what faculty characters attended to how they gown to which spa therapies they select (poor Lochlan and that posture-improvement session!), it’s all in service of the massive image. I cackled Sunday evening once I noticed Jaclyn studying Barbra Streisand’s nearly-1000-page-long memoir by the pool—after all that’s what she would choose—and was delighted to see Laurie had picked up Emma Straub’s Trendy Lovers (Straub was additionally delighted). Right here’s a have a look at what everyone seems to be studying on White Lotus and what it means. Guide membership, anybody?
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