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In March 2026, “Reminders of Him” proved that Colleen Hoover is a proper box office juggernaut. The story of a formerly incarcerated woman returning to her hometown to reconnect with her daughter made $89.2 million at the worldwide box office on a $25 million budget, ensuring plenty more Hoover adaptations were to come. Now, the film is adding to that success with a Netflix boost, as subscribers have pounced on “Reminders of Him” like a love-starved former inmate, sending the film to the top of the streamer’s movie charts in the United States.
Is there anyone more representative of the recent romance novel adaptation trend than Colleen Hoover? Hollywood loves a BookTok phenomenon, and Hoover’s novels seem designed in a lab to appeal to the “crying, screaming, throwing up” crowds on social media, who simply cannot resist what The Guardian called Hoover’s “normcore thrillers.”
Thus far,
