Tom Cruise’s Digger Opens to $20 Million Worldwide

Tom Cruise’s film Digger opened to about $8 million in domestic ticket sales and roughly $20 million worldwide, a weak debut for the actor’s first movie since the latest Mission: Impossible installment. The opening figures were reported across multiple accounts, though they appear to trace back to a shared reporting origin. The film’s eventual financial performance remains uncertain, and published estimates of its production and marketing costs vary. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Digger is a satire starring Cruise. Its opening fell short of expectations, but the reported totals do not establish how much the film will ultimately lose. Estimates in the coverage ranged from a potential $100 million loss to $150 million or more, based on different assumptions about production costs, marketing spending and future receipts. Those figures are projections, not confirmed results. The reports put the production budget at no less than about $125 million, with some estimates placing it near $160 million or higher. Marketing estimates also differed, with figures of roughly $75 million and $100 million cited.