India, May 29 -- It Ends With Us (2024).Colleen Hoover's books are written with an eye on adaptations. Screen versions of Verity, Reminders Of Him, and Regretting You are all in the works. Unfortunately, It Ends With Us was completely overtaken by the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni backstage drama, the legal notices it spawned and those terrible costumes. Domestic violence deserves to be portrayed right. Do better.

Love, Rosie (2014). The book it was based on, Where Rainbows End by Cecilia Ahern, had so much heart, so much soul, so much wit and emotion. But on screen, the will-they-won't-they romance just came off as sappy. Lily Collins and Sam Claflin had chemistry and looked good, sure. But maybe a true-to-source adaptation with sparkle a...