MOVIE NEWS – Colleen Hoover, whose books are read by millions worldwide, has now become an unavoidable name in Hollywood, too.

Elle magazine once made a slightly profane joke about her, saying she can sell more books than God, as her novels were more popular in the United States than the Bible in 2022.

The Texas-born author’s career began in 2011, when she self-published her first novel, Slammed. She became a true bestseller writer during the pandemic, when it turned out that people online not only spend all their time on the internet, but also read: her novels were propelled even further by TikTok’s book community, BookTok, with users’ enthusiastic posts providing advertising of incalculable value.

Hoover’s Hollywood breakthrough made a huge splash, though not only in a positive sense. It Ends with Us became a major success, but it is also tied to a major harassment scandal that still has not ended, as the legal teams of the two leads, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, continue to generate mountains of paperwork. (In short: the actress filed a harassment lawsuit in January 2025 against Baldoni, who also served as the film’s director, and he responded with a defamation countersuit. The back-and-forth is playing out in public, and their relationship is so toxic that even though their lawyers will face off again in court in May, insiders suspect they still will not reach an agreement.)

The author prepared consciously for a Hollywood career and founded her own production company three years ago, so that she could exercise full creative control over adaptations of her books as the head of Heartbones Entertainment. They are working on multiple projects at once, and there is plenty of material, as 24 Hoover books have been published so far, but the company is not only adapting her novels, it is also bringing other authors’ successful books to the screen. Hoover is a true overachiever producer, dutifully sitting through both the shoot and the editing process, knowing that someone who has been thinking in subject-and-verb terms now has to learn the craft of making motion pictures.

Last year, Regretting You hit theaters in Hungary as Elrontott életek, and this spring brings the next Hoover adaptation, Reminders of Him, released in Hungary as Emlékek róla. The story’s heroine (Maika Monroe) has just been released from prison and tries to rebuild her relationship with her young daughter and find her place, but she runs into walls everywhere. The only person who shows understanding is a bar owner (Tyriq Withers), who helps her confront her past and find herself again, and their friendship turns into love.

(Reminders of Him – Release: March 12, 2026.)

Source: UIP Dunafilm