Anne Hathaway’s Thriller Comes Home After Being Pulled From 1,100 Theaters

After an unexpectedly short theatrical window, Amazon MGM's new psychological thriller will be released on the PVOD market this week. The movie debuted theatrically in early October, amid massive expectations. It did, after all, have the potential to become the new It Ends with Us or The Housemaid, which grossed $350 million and $400 million at the worldwide box office, respectively. Like It Ends with Us, the new Amazon movie is based on a Colleen Hoover bestseller — arguably her most well-known work. Her last two adaptations — Regretting You and Reminders of Him — were able to gross around $90 million each despite being based on less popular novels.

The new movie also had the added draw of featuring a star-studded cast — arguably the most high-profile set of actors to ever feature in a Hoover adaptation. The lead, Anne Hathaway, was coming off two massively successful hits — The Odyssey and The Devil Wears Prada 2 — while her co-star, Dakota Johnson, returned to box-office form with last year's blockbuster romantic drama Materialists. They were joined by Josh Hartnett, who currently stars in the number-one show worldwide on Netflix, Below. The ingredients were all there, but the dish didn't entirely come together. The movie ranked eighth on this week's domestic box office chart, having been removed from more than 1,000 theaters since its debut.