Tom Cruise and Riz Ahmed in “Digger.”Credit: Seoju Park / Warner Bros. Entertainment
It’s official: Diggercouldn’t strike gold at the box office.
The Tom Cruise climate change satire, directed by Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, made $8 million at the domestic box office over its opening weekend, Varietyreports. Its international earnings totaled $12 million, bringing Digger‘s opening weekend total to $20 million.
According to Variety, the film cost between $160 and $180 million to make, meaning Digger is officially a massive box-office bomb. It is also the last Warner Bros. film released before Warner Bros. Discovery merges with Paramount to become Skydance, marking a rough end to this era for the historic film studio.
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Warner Bros. banked on Cruise’s star power to deliver success for Digger, but the film’s box office is shaping up to be one of the worst of the famed actor’s career. (Yes, potentially worse than 2017’s The Mummy, which stopped Universal’s Dark Universe franchise plans outright.) Diggerhas the lowest box-office opening for Cruise since 2007’s war drama Lions for Lambs, which earned $6.7 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. However, with a $35 million budget, that film cost markedly less to make.
Following Digger‘s catastrophic opening and underwhelming critical response, Warner Bros. has leaned into the film’s divisiveness with a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tom-cruise-digger-critics-box-office-1236721806/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>new campaign that pits negative American reviews against positive international ones. Cruise posted a tribute to the film’s cast and crew on Instagram, saying that he was “so proud of what we created.”
Topping the box office this weekend was Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity, which picked up $32.6 million domestically and an extra $30 million internationally. It is Anne Hathaway’s third number-one opening of the year, after The Devil Wears Prada 2and The Odyssey.Recommended deals for you
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Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.
