Digger collapses at the box office from its launch
Alejandro González Iñárritu's film starring Tom Cruise sees its earnings plummet dramatically.
The video this brief is aboutThe film Digger turned into a commercial disaster from its launch in the United States. First weekend it only grossed $8 million, then the second week word-of-mouth turned against it. By the third weekend the distribution was cut to 786 theaters, i.e. 2,535 copies removed, and the revenue fell to $920,000. According to Screen Wide, Warner Bros. would have spent over $160 million on production. The project, announced in February 2024 while Tom Cruise was still riding the success of Top Gun: Maverick, even prompted Ben Affleck to call the debacle "grave for Hollywood".