{"id":793200,"date":"2026-10-06T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:56:08","slug":"digger-is-tom-cruises-biggest-opening-weekend-flop-in-almost-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793200\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Digger\u2019 is Tom Cruise\u2019s biggest opening-weekend flop in almost 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3DW4UTO4SRHRBAG4P32BDVOUVQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Well, \u201cDigger\u201d just dug a hole in Warner Bros.\u2019 bottom line. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PEHGWAUAQZAX7N4OQHI7SQ7JIM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When it was announced, it seemed like a slam dunk. After nearly 20 years of making action movies, Tom Cruise would return to capital-A Acting in a satirical film by Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, whose won best director at the Oscars for both of his most recent English-language films, \u201cBirdman\u201d (2014) and \u201cThe Revenant\u201d (2015). Additionally, \u201cBirdman\u201d took home best picture and grossed $42,340,598 domestically (more than $100 million worldwide), while \u201cThe Revenant\u201d earned lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio his Oscar and grossed $184,247,394 domestically (more than $500 million worldwide). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, \u201cDigger\u201d just dug a hole in Warner Bros.\u2019 bottom line. When it was announced, it seemed like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}