Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ flops as climate film warns of fossil fuel complicity

The Sansasyonel - International (English) · Oct 20, 2026 · 1m

Digger, the latest film by Alejandro González Iñárritu featuring Tom Cruise, has had a difficult time at the box office. It earned eight million dollars during its opening weekend in the United States, but ticket sales dropped by 60 percent the next weekend. With an expected loss of 245 million dollars, the movie was removed from over 2,500 theaters across the United States before its third week. The plot follows Cruise as Digger Rockwell, a Texas-based oil executive whose drilling activities cause a fracture in the Arctic ice sheet. A massive iceberg, five times larger than Washington, D.C…