Tom Cruise’s Most Divisive Thriller Surges on Streaming as ‘Digger’ Bombs in Theaters

Published Oct 8, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

The disastrous box-office debut of Digger has sent shock waves across the industry. How could a star of Tom Cruise’s stature struggle to open a movie? How could a wide release of this magnitude gross only $8 million in its first weekend? How will this impact the future of Hollywood? Now, a new report has estimated that the film will lose roughly $250 million for Warner Bros., making it one of the biggest bombs in box-office history. Digger is certainly the biggest flop of Cruise’s career, which it was designed to honor and perhaps even earn him that elusive Academy Award. Reviews for the movie have been as divisive as they come, but audiences seem to be united in their disinterest. Cruise’s fans are turning to his other films on streaming, including, ironically, one of his most-hated past works.

According to FlixPatrol, Top Gun: Maverick is currently the number-one movie on the global Paramount+ chart, cementing its stature as Cruise’s most universally beloved film. The movie holds a near-perfect 99% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Maverick is also his biggest hit, with a global box-office haul of $1.5 billion. Meanwhile, the domestic Prime Video chart has been taken over by Cruise’s two Lee Child adaptations — Jack Reacher and its sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. While both movies did solid box-office business, reviews were mixed, especially from fans of the Reacher novels.

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