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Digger has suffered a disappointing opening, with the movie finishing fifth place with $US8 million ($11.5 million) at the North American box office.
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movie → suffer → office
Starring Tom Cruise, the film's poor showing comes as the merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery is due to close this week.
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merger → star → Skydance
The Colleen Hoover-adapted Verity has taken the number one spot.
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Verity → adapt → spot
Movie star Tom Cruise has suffered one of the worst debuts of his career, with his new movie Digger flopping at the box office during its opening weekend.
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movie → suffer → weekend
Digger finished in fifth place at the North American box office with $US8 million ($11.5 million).
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Digger → finish → million
This was against a production budget of a reported $US125 million ($179.7 million) prior to marketing costs, which are believed to have been about $US100 million ($143.8 million).
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which → report → costs
Worldwide, the film pulled in $US20 million ($28.7 million), including $US12 million ($17.2 million) internationally.
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film → pull → million
Cruise is unrecognisable in the movie, which is a satire about a powerful oil tycoon whose reckless drilling triggers an environmental disaster.
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drilling → trigger → disaster
It is directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G Iñárritu and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures.
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It → direct → Pictures
The abysmal opening comes just as Paramount Skydance is closing its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery after the US justice department greenlit the merger.
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department → come → merger
Cruise has long been one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood and won an Honorary Oscar in 2025 for his extraordinary contributions to cinema.
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Cruise → win → cinema
He has spent most of the last decade as a top action hero starring in Mission: Impossible movies and Top Gun: Maverick.
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He → spend → movies
The 64-year-old's last major box-office disappointment was 2017's The Mummy, which grossed $US409.2 million ($588.5 million) worldwide on a $US195 million ($280.4 million) budget.
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which → gross → budget
Digger was both panned and lauded by critics, with some calling it a strained climate change farce.
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some → pan → it
To help sell the film, Cruise granted his first lengthy magazine interview in years.
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Cruise → help → years
Verity comes in at #1
Number one at the box office was Amazon MGM Studio's Verity, adapted from a Colleen Hoover novel.
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Number → come → novel
It is about a struggling author hired as a ghostwriter for a publishing sensation under eerie circumstances and stars Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett.
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It → struggle → Hathaway
It is directed by Michael Showalter.
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It → direct → Showalter
It debuted with $US32.6 million ($46.8 million) in North America and was number one in Australia with $US3.1 million ($4.4 million), according to Box Office Mojo.
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It → debut → Mojo
Final weekend box office figures are yet to be released, but below is what Rentrak has recorded so far in US and Canadian theatres.
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recorded → release → theatres
The Aporia
