Digger could lose up to $250 million after a $20 million box office opening
According to a report from TheWrap and IGN, Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film with Tom Cruise, could lose up to $250 million.
The opening figures cited in the report are $8 million in the U.S. and $12 million internationally. Warner Bros. had reportedly not commented at the time of publication.
The report frames those numbers in the context of a film that, according to the cited sources, has already received a mixed response. However, the claim of a possible $250 million loss is not presented in the available information as an officially confirmed studio result, but as a market estimate.
What happened
IGN reported on October 8, 2026 that TheWrap was positioning Digger as a major box-office disappointment. In that report, the film is described as a climate-change satire starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The publication also says the film, according to the cited sources, has been met with mixed reactions from both critics and audiences.
The article cites a possible final total of less than $40 million worldwide. Against that, it places an estimated financial shortfall of $250 million, but in the available sources that figure is presented as a market estimate rather than an officially confirmed loss. The supplied information also does not include a confirmed production budget, so the relationship between costs and revenue cannot be independently verified.
The opening figures mentioned in the piece are $8 million in the U.S. market and $12 million internationally. Together, that comes to a $20 million worldwide opening weekend, which the report uses as the basis for its conclusion that the film is already far behind the expectations outlined there.
According to IGN, Warner Bros. did not respond to the claims. The supplied sources do not include confirmation of an official studio statement about the numbers. A response from Skydance or Paramount is also not confirmed in the available material, although the broader studio and ownership context around Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance is in flux.
Timeline
2026-10-07: GAME-scanner publishes an earlier article about Digger after mixed reactions to the film.
2026-10-08: IGN publishes a report on TheWrap’s claims that Digger may be a box-office miss.
2026-10-08: The report cites opening figures of $8 million in the U.S. and $12 million internationally, for $20 million worldwide.
2026-10-08: The same report cites a possible total gross of under $40 million worldwide and a loss of up to $250 million.
2026-10-08: According to the supplied sources, Warner Bros. gives no comment on the claims, while no confirmed response from Skydance or Paramount is mentioned.
Background
Digger is described in the supplied sources as a film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu starring Tom Cruise. The discussion centers on box-office performance rather than an official final financial accounting from the studio. The available information describes the film as a climate-change satire, but provides no additional production details such as a final budget, an official profit-and-loss statement, or a studio-confirmed final total.
The available information contains no confirmed budget for the film and no definitive worldwide final gross. As a result, the claim of a $250 million loss remains a market report, not a settled accounting fact. The fact report also says the film was received in a mixed way by critics and audiences, but that is not backed up in the supplied sources with concrete score data or an official metric.
The broader context in the dossier also refers to a wider business situation involving Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, and Skydance. A $110 billion deal is mentioned there, which is relevant to the studio attribution in the Digger coverage. That said, it does not change the fact that the box-office claim itself is not presented in the available sources as definitively confirmed.
Because the supplied sources do not include a final report, budget document, or official studio statement, the claim about the possible loss should be read cautiously. The concrete figures that do appear in the report are the $20 million worldwide opening and the projection of less than $40 million in total revenue. That makes the article primarily a report on an early financial estimate, not on a completed accounting outcome.