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Tom Cruise’s ‘obnoxious’ movie is an historic bomb · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: The Front's afternoon headlines. A film in which Hollywood golden
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  Speaker 1: boy Tom Cruise plays an eccentric oil magnate in heavy
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  Speaker 1: prosthetics is on track to lose more than $ 350 million.
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  Speaker 1: That would make it one of the biggest box office
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  Speaker 1: bombs in movie history. Digger reportedly cost as much as
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  Speaker 1: $ 180 million to make and production company Warner Brothers spent
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  Speaker 1: about half that again on marketing. but the film has
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  Speaker 1: only made about US $ 20 million in ticket sales around
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  Speaker 1: the world. The Australian's film critic Nikki Gemmel says it's
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  Speaker 1: the ugliest film of the year and relentlessly obnoxious. You
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  Speaker 1: can check out Nikki's review right now at theaustralian.com.au. Independent
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  Speaker 1: Senator David Pocock says the Prime Minister's office edited a
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  Speaker 1: letter raising concerns about artificial intelligence before it was sent
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  Speaker 1: to the Prime Minister. It's all about a deeply sensitive
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  Speaker 1: issue on Anthony Albanese's plate, how to deal with AI
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  Speaker 1: giants who want him to change Australia's copyright law so
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  Speaker 1: they can hoover up all Australian creative works without paying
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  Speaker 1: licence fees. Creative and media organisations, including News Corp Australia,
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  Speaker 1: which publishes The Front, says there's no need to change
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  Speaker 1: the law and that AI companies should have to pay
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  Speaker 1: for any material they use. The co-leaders of a joint
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  Speaker 1: parliamentary committee on artificial intelligence, Labor's Joe Briski and Liberal
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  Speaker 1: John O'Donoghue, wrote a letter to Albanese asking him to
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  Speaker 1: examine the current copyright settings. The letter warned that Australian books,
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  Speaker 1: music and journalism was already being ingested into AI models
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  Speaker 1: overseas without payment and asked the PM to ensure that
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  Speaker 1: creators are properly paid for their work. But Pocock, who
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  Speaker 1: is also on the committee... says he saw a copy
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  Speaker 1: of the letter before it was to be sent to
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  Speaker 1: Albanese and the Prime Minister's office had already marked it
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  Speaker 1: up with changes. He accused the PMO of heavily vetting
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  Speaker 1: the letter and said he's concerned the major parties are
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  Speaker 1: working together to get a preconceived outcome. Check out those
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  Speaker 1: stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au and come back to
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  Speaker 1: the front first thing in the morning for our look
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  Speaker 1: at the big pivot by property investors. They're on the
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  Speaker 1: hunt for a totally new kind of dwelling. That's right
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  Speaker 1: here Wednesday morning.