Premiere - Regretting You : Dallas Premiere Brings Colleen Hoover’s World to Life for Fans

By Mulder, Texas, Dallas, AMC NorthPark, 26 september 2025

The Dallas premiere of Regretting You at AMC NorthPark 15 on September 26, 2025, was far more than just another promotional stop on the film’s road to release. For the hundreds of devoted readers of Colleen Hoover, it was a homecoming event that blurred the line between literature and cinema, between author and audience. Hoover, who has transformed from a self-published phenomenon into one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists, chose her own city of Dallas to host the very first public screening of this long-anticipated adaptation. Joined on stage by fellow author and producer Anna Todd, Hoover welcomed her fans into a story that has already lived vividly in their imaginations since the book’s release in 2019. The presence of producers Brunson Green and Flavia Viotti, who stood alongside Hoover and Todd to greet the audience, underscored the collaborative spirit of the project and the personal connection between creator, adaptation, and community. The room buzzed with a unique intimacy, a mixture of literary devotion and cinematic curiosity, heightened by Hoover’s own pride in seeing her words reimagined on the big screen in the city that shaped her career.

Regretting You, directed by Josh Boone from a screenplay by Susan McMartin, carries with it the weight of expectation. Fans of Hoover’s novels are famously passionate, dissecting every adaptation and often wary of Hollywood’s tendency to sand away the edges of a beloved story. But this film seems determined to preserve the book’s emotional complexity. The ensemble cast reads like a carefully curated balance between star power and fresh talent: Allison Williams as Morgan, Mckenna Grace as Clara, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Willa Fitzgerald, Scott Eastwood, and Clancy Brown. Production began in Atlanta in March 2025, and the decision to shoot in Georgia’s vibrant film hub allowed the team to create an intimate, suburban backdrop that mirrors the quiet tragedies and unexpected connections at the heart of the story. Tim Orr’s cinematography and the editing by Marc Clark and Robb Sullivan are designed to capture the raw, unvarnished emotional shifts between mother and daughter, while the screenplay by McMartin never shies away from the messy contradictions of family bonds.

The story itself, familiar yet devastating, centers on Morgan Grant’s sacrifices to raise her daughter Clara. Hoover’s trademark lies in her ability to twist love and loyalty into knots, and Regretting You does just that. Morgan, played by Allison Williams, suffocates her daughter with protective intentions, while Clara, brought to life by Mckenna Grace, resists conformity and yearns to carve her own path. A tragedy throws them both into turmoil, exposing betrayals that destabilize everything they once held sacred. As Morgan unexpectedly leans on someone from her past, Clara’s own affections drift dangerously close to forbidden territory. The Dallas premiere highlighted how fans see themselves in these dueling arcs: parents striving to hold on, children determined to break free, and the fragile truce forged in the ruins of loss. Hoover herself reminded attendees of the deeply personal roots of the novel, describing how the themes of protection, rebellion, and reconciliation were drawn from conversations with her own family.

What makes this adaptation significant is the constellation of names behind it. Robert Kulzer, long associated with Constantin Film’s success in adapting novels, anchors the production team with Brunson Green, known for his Oscar-winning work on The Help. The inclusion of Anna Todd, herself the bestselling author of After, brings an insider’s perspective on what it means to translate fan-favorite novels into films without alienating the readers who built the original success. Flavia Viotti’s presence on the producing team reflects a younger generation of filmmakers invested in amplifying female-driven stories. Together, they form a rare coalition of literary voices and cinematic craftsmen. Hoover’s collaboration with Todd, in particular, felt like a passing of the torch onstage in Dallas: two authors who started from self-publishing routes now standing at the center of a Hollywood premiere, proving that fan communities can shape an industry as much as industry executives do.

The screening also hinted at the global ambitions for Regretting You. Paramount Pictures will release the film in the United States on October 24, 2025, with Constantin Film bringing it to Germany the day prior, and a French release slated for October 29. This staggered rollout allows the film to build momentum across fan bases that already devour Hoover’s work in translation. Anecdotes shared during the Dallas event revealed Hoover’s astonishment at how quickly her readership has grown internationally—what began as a local Texas success has become a global literary empire. Seeing her work transformed into a Paramount release, with distribution stretching across continents, marked a personal milestone that she admitted felt “surreal” even as she introduced the film to her hometown audience.

The premiere itself became a symbol of Hoover’s unique trajectory: from a small-town author writing on borrowed time between jobs, to a cultural force whose name now draws crowds into theaters. Fans at AMC NorthPark not only watched the film but also took part in a living testimony of that journey. Laughter, tears, and audible gasps during key scenes confirmed the adaptation’s ability to tap into the novel’s emotional resonance. For Hoover, Todd, and the producers, those reactions validated years of effort and risk. For Dallas, the event felt like a celebration of one of their own. And for the wider audience awaiting the release in late October, the message was clear: Regretting You is no longer just a story to be read—it’s an experience meant to be lived, together, in the dark of a cinema.

Synopsis : 
Morgan Grant put her dreams on hold to raise her daughter Clara. While they share an unwavering love for each other, everything else divides them: their values, their choices, their way of loving and living. Morgan wants to protect Clara at all costs, even if it means suffocating her. Clara, on the other hand, refuses to follow her mother's path and seeks to emancipate herself. But when a brutal tragedy brings to light an unimaginable betrayal, the fragile balance they had built is shattered. In the chaos, Morgan finds unexpected support... from the one person she had kept at a distance for years. Meanwhile, Clara grows dangerously close to the boy she has been forbidden to love. Two parallel paths, two hearts in recovery, one truth to face.

Regretting You
Directed by Josh Boone
Written by Susan McMartin
Based on Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
Produced by Robert Kulzer, Brunson Green, Anna Todd, Flavia Viotti
Starring  Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Willa Fitzgerald, Scott Eastwood, Clancy Brown
Cinematography : Tim Orr
Edited by Marc Clark, Robb Sullivan
Production companies : Constantin Film, Harbinger Pictures, Frayed Pages Entertainment, Heartbones Entertainment
Distributed by Constantin Film (Germany), Paramount Pictures (Worldwide)
Release dates : October 24, 2025 (United States), October 29, 2025 (France)
Running time : 116 minutes

Photos Copyright :  Sam Hodde/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures