Off-topic for aiqbench
This story was gathered from a source we follow but falls outside AI and quantum coverage, so there is no aiqbench take for it.
Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ could be one of Hollywood’s biggest flops ever, with a projected $245 million loss
The Alejandro G. Iñárritu satire fell 60% in its second weekend, leaving Warner Bros. with a staggering write-down on its final release before the Paramount merger closed.
Warner Bros.’ “Digger” opened to an underwhelming $8 million at the domestic box office over the Oct. 2 weekend. Despite the star power of Tom Cruise, in his first film since “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” and the vision of Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the dark comedy quickly became one of the year’s biggest flops, handing Cruise one of the worst debuts of his…
Excerpt shown under the publisher's RSS terms · 66 words · full text and figures are on the publisher's site
Related coverage
Will Warner Bros. kill Skydance — or will David Ellison kill Warner Bros?
The Verge · Oct 10, 2026
Tom Cruise suffers one of the worst movie debuts of his career. Reviews were so bad Warner Bros. ran ‘decide for yourself’ ads
Fortune · Oct 4, 2026
Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive
Latent Space · Sep 14, 2026
‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the biggest movie ever again, 7 years later—and it says a lot about the future of Hollywood’s IP machine
Fortune · Oct 4, 2026