Amazon MGM's big-screen take on Colleen Hoover's "Verity" topped the box office in its opening weekend, pulling in roughly $32.6 million and easily outpacing Tom Cruise's "Digger," which managed just $8 million.

The psychological thriller stars Dakota Johnson as a ghostwriter hired to finish a famous author's (Anne Hathaway) unpublished series, with Josh Hartnett rounding out the love triangle. Critics were cool — Rotten Tomatoes put it at 34% — but audiences showed up anyway, handing it a 70% audience score on a modest $40 million budget.

Industry analysts called the result "well above average for the genre," a bright spot for the book-to-film pipeline that's fueled hits all year.