The last movie released by Warner Bros. as a standalone studio before its major merger with Paramount Skydance has turned into an absolute disaster at the opening weekend box office. Digger stumbled to a domestic opening of just $8.0 million, while the international market brought in $12.0 million, giving the film a global launch of … Read more
The marketing campaign for Digger was wrapped in deliberate mystery, selling the tantalizing idea that pairing Tom Cruise with four-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu would deliver a prestige masterpiece. Fans and industry insiders alike speculated that the Mexican auteur might do for Cruise what he famously did for Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant: deliver … Read more
Just one month ago, headline after headline pronounced Travis Knight’s Masters of the Universe dead on arrival. Produced on a reported $170 million to $200 million price tag, its meager $113 million global theatrical haul led trade outlets to instantly brand the He-Man reboot as one of the biggest box office disappointments of the summer. … Read more