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‘Digger,’ the last Warner Bros.’ release before merger, is major flop

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Newest development Oct 5, 2026 · 3 reports‘Digger’ Ending Explained: Does Tom Cruise Save the Day? Everything You Need to Know About the Box Office Flop

On paper, it all sounded great. Superstar Tom Cruise meets auteur Alejandro G. Inarritu, and together they construct a satire lampooning the power-hungry billionaire class. Warner Bros., the filmmaker-friendly studio under the guidance of Pamela Abdy and Michael De Luca, believe in Inarritu, who had…

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  1. ‘Digger’: Tom Cruise Film Eyes Dismal $10 Million Opening Weekend At Box Office

    Headline from Forbes ·

  2. With ‘Digger,’ Tom Cruise Takes On His Riskiest Business Yet

    Headline from The Hollywood Reporter ·

  3. Tom Cruise transforms for new film 'Digger'

    Headline from ABC 7 New York ·

  4. 'Digger' Ending Explained: A Spoiler-Filled Breakdown of Tom Cruise's Wild New Movie

    Headline from Polygon ·

  5. Nolte: Tom Cruise’s Climate Change Lecture ‘Digger’ DOA with $1.2M Thursday

    Headline from Breitbart News ·

  6. Review: ‘Digger’ is unapologetically willing to be hated

    Headline from East Idaho News ·

  7. Names this update

    ‘Digger,’ the last Warner Bros.’ release before merger, is major flop

    Headline from Honolulu Star-Advertiser ·

  8. Cruise's 'Digger' a huge flop at box office

    Headline from Casper Star-Tribune ·

  9. Newest

    ‘Digger’ Ending Explained: Does Tom Cruise Save the Day? Everything You Need to Know About the Box Office Flop

    Headline from New York Post ·

4 reports not tied to one development ·

Reports & sources

58 articles, oldest first.

  1. The Guardian

    Digger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    One man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory film A new movie from the Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is always an event.

  2. The Hollywood Reporter

    ‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu Are a Match Made in Showboating Hell in a Shallow Satire Insufferably Pleased With Itself (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The Hollywood Reporter's feed description

    Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg and Jesse Plemons also star in this dark comedy about a blowhard oil tycoon facing a global catastrophe of his own making.

  3. Deadline

    ‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise Explodes In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Surprising And Urgent Disaster Movie Satire (opens Deadline)

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    Deadline's feed description

    Digger is unlike any film coming from a major Hollywood studio in years, at least in my memory. It makes sense it comes from Warner Bros, which is the one major that seems to take real swings with big budgets, directors and stars in films you might say are risky business. Some work, some don’t: […]

  4. Variety

    ‘Digger’ Review: As a Texas Oil Tycoon, Tom Cruise Goes Over the Top in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bombastically Self-Important Satire (opens Variety)

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    Variety's feed description

    "Digger" isn’t funny. It’s nervy, in your face, audacious, adventurous, and bizarro in a free-swinging, out-of-the-box way. And it feels like a comedy, since it’s fueled by the relentless overacting of a bad Coen brothers movie. But "Dr.

  5. New York Post

    ‘Digger’ review: Tom Cruise’s laugh-free turd will have audiences stampeding out (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    Tom Cruise’s latest film, “Digger” — the actor’s first real stinker in nearly 10 years — really is a rage-inducing sit.

  6. UPI

    Movie review: Tom Cruise leads relentless 'Digger' farce (opens UPI)

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    "Digger," in theaters Friday, orchestrates farce between Tom Cruise and the ensemble cast with relentless intensity in staging and performances.

  7. Forbes

    ‘Digger’ Rotten Tomatoes Reviews Bury Tom Cruise’s Apocalyptic Satire (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Critics aren’t entirely digging Tom Cruise’s new movie "Digger," an offbeat satire that pairs the actor-producer with "Birdman" and "The Revenant Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

  8. The Boston Globe

    ‘Digger’ is the worst movie of Tom Cruise’s career (opens The Boston Globe)

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    The Boston Globe's feed description

    As Denzel said in ‘Malcolm X,’ you’ve been ‘hoodwinked and bamboozled’ by this film’s mendacious marketing.

  9. The Hollywood Reporter

    Tom Cruise ‘Digger’ Reviews Are Brutally Split: From “Insufferable” to “Terrific” (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The Hollywood Reporter's feed description

    Here's a roundup of the top critic reviews for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's bold new movie.

  10. WSVN Miami

    ‘Digger’ movie starring Tom Cruise brings unique story and script to the big screen (opens WSVN Miami)

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    Tom Cruise is back on the big screen but he’s not playing the Tom Cruise we have come to know and expect. That is so...

  11. The Hollywood Reporter

    With ‘Digger,’ Tom Cruise Takes On His Riskiest Business Yet (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The Hollywood Reporter's feed description

    “I was very successful since I was a kid,” Cruise told a packed Academy Museum screening. With his latest film, the actor, and Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, are putting that star power to the test.

  12. The New Yorker

    Tom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger” (opens The New Yorker)

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    In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw.

  13. New York Post

    ‘Digger’s Wildest Twist? How It Cuts Big Movie Star Tom Cruise Back Down to Size (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    It's hard to fully love the misdirection of Digger but it's also something to see.

  14. New York Post

    Tom Cruise’s disastrous ‘Digger’ could make as little as $8M to $12M in terrible opening weekend (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    Alas, the movie will mark the end for Warner Bros. as a stand-alone studio. Within days, it'll become part of the Paramount merger.

  15. Variety

    Will Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Continue Warner Bros.’ Dismal Box Office Year? (opens Variety)

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    Tom Cruise has built a career on jumping out of airplanes, scaling skyscrapers and performing other high-wire antics in the name of entertainment. His next stunt may be his riskiest yet: Getting moviegoers to see “Digger,” a rare big-budget, star-driven original comedy. The Warner Bros.

  16. Breitbart News

    'Digger,' the Tom Cruise Climate Change Satire, Deeply Divides Critics (opens Breitbart News)

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    The climate change satire "Digger," starring Tom Cruise and directed by Oscar-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, has intensely divided critics, with some hailing it as a bold triumph on par with Dr. Strangelove and others trashing it as complete misfire that might be the "the worst movie of Tom Cruise’s …

  17. France 24

    Tom Cruise's 'Digger' divides critics as Zurich Film Festival stars steal the spotlight (opens France 24)

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    This week on arts24's film show, an unrecognisable Tom Cruise takes a career gamble in "Digger", Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new satire, in which he plays an oil billionaire whose company initiates a world-ending ecological disaster.

  18. Forbes

    ‘Digger’ Sets An Unfortunate Rotten Tomatoes Record For Tom Cruise (opens Forbes)

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    Tom Cruise's 'Digger' is out this weekend, but it has ended a long-running streak for the actor via its Rotten Tomatoes score.

  19. The Hollywood Reporter

    Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Was Originally Titled ‘Blah, Blah, Blah,’ Iñárritu Reveals (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu reveals the film's original title, and praises Warners for taking a chance on the project.

  20. New York Post

    Tom Cruise arrives at ‘Digger’ Q&A in style and more star snaps (opens New York Post)

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    Josh Hartnett and Anne Hathaway embrace, Serena Williams cuddles up with her kids and more snaps...

  21. Breitbart News

    Nolte: Tom Cruise’s Global Warming Propaganda ‘Digger’ About to Lose $100+ Million (opens Breitbart News)

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    Tom Cruise’s Digger is a shrill, unsubtle, 129-minute attack on those of us who dare to use oil to better our lives. And it's about to lose a fortune.

  22. KTLA Los Angeles

    Tom Cruise's 'Digger' claps back at scathing reviews (opens KTLA Los Angeles)

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    The reviews are mixed for Tom Cruise's latest movie "Digger." An unrecognizable Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil tycoon; the movie's logline describes Rockwell as "the most powerful man in the world.

  23. The Hollywood Reporter

    Why Is Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Facing Such a Bumpy Box Office Road? (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The Hollywood Reporter's feed description

    Warner Bros.' big-budget awards play has sparked plenty of debate, with the film likely to open far below Amazon MGM's Colleen Hoover adaptation 'Verity': "It's going to be a very interesting weekend."

  24. Forbes

    ‘Digger’: Tom Cruise Film’s Box Office Projections Take Dive Ahead Of Opening Weekend (opens Forbes)

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    Tom Cruise's new film "Digger" is facing a grim opening weekend at the box office, while Anne Hathaway's "Verity" is projected to have a solid opening.

  25. The Guardian

    Don’t hate the movie, hate the critic! Digger’s new PR push is a risky bet for film that was never meant to be divisive (opens The Guardian)

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    ‘SAME FILM – DIFFERENT TRUTH’ is the marketing solution for the film’s poor reception by critics. Or, as Cruise says in the ad, ‘Fuck those people!’ ‘You know what? Fuck those people!” The speaker is Tom Cruise in his serious-fatsuit role of Digger, in the bold new online ad which gives the finger t…

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