{"id":654599,"date":"2026-10-14T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/654599\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:40:13","slug":"will-you-watch-digger-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/654599\/","title":{"rendered":"Will you watch Digger? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOM CRUISE\u2019S LATEST film, Digger, is now in cinemas and is so far on course for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cke8re5v1pgmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">major box office loss.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, has a reported budget of $180 million (\u20ac160.9 million) and took in just $25 million (\u20ac22.35 million) during its opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/film\/article\/how-tom-cruise-made-one-of-the-biggest-box-office-flops-digger-z3l5gs0bx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">writes<\/a> that Digger is \u201cthe weirdest film that Tom Cruise has made in his 45-year career and probably the most commercially disastrous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, The Journal\u2019s Carl Kinsella describes Digger as a film \u201cthat rewards attention\u201d, adding that its poor box office performance is more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/digger-movie-review-7187797-Oct2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201ca failure of marketing than a failure of filmmaking\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, we\u2019re wondering: Will you watch it?<\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>Yes \u2013 I plan to see it (542)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already seen it (142)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOM CRUISE\u2019S LATEST film, Digger, is now in cinemas and is so far on course for a major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[271977,2478,9442,176208,93,1043,61,60,270,3865,3866,5592,3867],"class_list":["post-654599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu","tag-box-office","tag-cinema","tag-digger","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-poll","tag-the-daily-poll","tag-tom-cruise","tag-your-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}