{"id":266849,"date":"2026-10-04T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/tom-cruises-digger-bombs-at-box-office-with-just-8-million-opening-weekend-could-lose-up-to-200-million\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:02:36","slug":"tom-cruises-digger-bombs-at-box-office-with-just-8-million-opening-weekend-could-lose-up-to-200-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/tom-cruises-digger-bombs-at-box-office-with-just-8-million-opening-weekend-could-lose-up-to-200-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise\u2019s \u2018Digger\u2019 Bombs at Box Office With Just $8 Million Opening Weekend, Could Lose Up to $200 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Warner Bros.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/tom-cruise\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Tom Cruise<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s new movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/digger\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\"><em>Digger<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is having a very rough start at the box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 64-year-old actor&#8217;s new satirical comedy opened to just $8 million from 3,321 theaters across North America, according to early estimates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rival studios believe the final number could come in even lower at around $7.5 million when the official totals arrive, per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/digger-box-office-majorly-bombs-verity-scores-1236898521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result is especially notable because <em>Digger<\/em> reportedly cost between $160 million and $180 million to produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warner Bros. had initially hoped the movie would open between $18 million and $20 million, though box office experts reportedly believed a movie with that price tag would have needed an opening closer to $40 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"h-how-much-money-could-digger-lose\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Much Money Could <em>Digger<\/em> Lose?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Digger<\/em> could <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/digger-box-office-majorly-bombs-verity-scores-1236898521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly lose<\/a> between $150 million and $200 million theatrically.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Variety<\/em> reports that Warner Bros. also spent another $100 million on the movie&#8217;s global marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources familiar with similar movies estimated that <em>Digger<\/em> would need around $350 million worldwide to break even, while a Warner Bros. spokesperson pushed back on that figure and placed the break-even point at around $300 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movie also struggled internationally, earning $12 million from 73 markets for a worldwide opening of $20 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">D<em>igger<\/em> was directed by <strong>Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/strong> and stars <strong>Tom <\/strong>as a powerful oil tycoon preparing for a major ecological disaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/09\/23\/tom-cruise-digger-first-reviews-reactions-critics-divided\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out what critics thought of the movie.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/10\/04\/tom-cruise-digger-box-office-opening-weekend-losses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Cruise&#8217;s &#8216;Digger&#8217; Bombs at Box Office With Just $8 Million Opening Weekend, Could Lose Up to $200 Million<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News, Entertainment News &amp; Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/10\/04\/tom-cruise-digger-box-office-opening-weekend-losses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Tom Cruise&#8216;s new movie Digger is having a very rough start at the box office. The 64-year-old actor&#8217;s new satirical comedy opened to just $8 million from 3,321 theaters across North America, according to early estimates. Rival studios believe the final number could come in even lower at around $7.5 million when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}