New York, October 10, 2026 Anne Hathaway’s psychological thriller Verity debuted at the top of the box office this weekend, earning $32.6 million. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise’s original film Digger had a disappointing opening, grossing just $8 million. This marks one of Cruise’s lowest opening weekends as a headliner since Rain Man in 1988.
The budget for Digger reportedly started at $125 million, making it one of the most expensive films released in over 3,000 theaters and failing to pull off a $10 million opening. Verity is the 19th film to open in October between $30-40 million, and it is expected to pass Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick by next weekend.
The film is currently the 19th highest-grossing film of the year, with a worldwide gross of over $62 million. Amazon/MGM’s second solid hit of the year, Project Hail Mary, grossed $100 million domestically. Anne Hathaway, born in Brooklyn in 1982, has had a successful acting career spanning over two decades.
She graduated from Millburn High School in New Jersey, where she acted in several plays, including Once Upon a Mattress. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real (1999–2000), and made her breakthrough as the protagonist in her debut film, the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001).
Hathaway made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 dramas Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. The comedy film The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success to that point. She played a recovering alcoholic in the drama Rachel Getting Married (2008), which garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2012, Hathaway starred as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises, her first of three collaborations with director Christopher Nolan. That year, she also played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in the musical romantic drama Les Misérables, for which she earned multiple accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Hathaway went on to play a scientist in Interstellar (2014), the owner of an online fashion site in The Intern (2015), a haughty actress in Ocean’s 8 (2018), a single mother in The Idea of You (2024), a journalist in The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) and Queen Penelope in The Odyssey (2026). Hathaway won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest voice role on The Simpsons.
She has also sung for soundtracks, appeared on the New York stage, and starred in the miniseries WeCrashed (2022). She is a board member of the Lollipop Theatre Network, an organization that brings films to children in hospitals, and she advocates for gender equality as a UN Women goodwill ambassador. Hathaway is married to Adam Shulman, with whom she has two children.
Looking ahead, Hathaway has a busy schedule. She is set to reprise her role as Queen Penelope in the upcoming second season of The Odyssey, and will also star in the upcoming romantic comedy Love, Lies & Spies.
Fans across the globe are eagerly anticipating her next projects, and with her proven track record of success, there’s no doubt that Hathaway’s star will continue to shine brightly in Hollywood.
