‘Verity’ Is Trash. But Is It Good Trash? Plus: ‘Digger’ Flopped and Warner Bros. Is No More.
Verity, the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, was the biggest movie of the weekend but is a pulpy, campy mess. Meanwhile, the Hollywood landscape shifted dramatically with the ousting of Pam Abdy and Mike DeLuca from Warner Brothers ahead of the War
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