‘Verity’ Is Trash. But Is It Good Trash? Plus: ‘Digger’ Flopped, and Warner Bros. Is No More.

Another year, another Colleen Hoover adaptation. How lucky are we? Before diving into the biggest box office success from the weekend, Sean and Amanda react to the news that Mike DeLuca and Pam Abdy will not continue their roles at David Ellison’s Skydance. They look back at their biggest successes and failures and wonder what the future of Skydance looks like. Then, they briefly discuss Sicario 3 being green-lit with all of the returning stars, but notably neither Denis Villeneuve nor Stefano Sollima. Finally, they cover Verity, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s erotic thriller, starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett. They break down why the original source material sets the movie up for failure, talk about what they want from the erotic thriller genre going forward, and debate whether we have a “Dakota Johnson problem.”

Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins
Producer: Jack Sanders
Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh and Remy Hernandez