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John Goodman has said negative reviews of Digger“kind of killed” the film before it reached cinemas, arguing that the critical response gave audiences a reason to avoid the Tom Cruise-led satire.

Alejandro González Iñárritu is speaking out about reviews for his latest movie, Digger.

Warner Bros. rolled out a new ad for Digger that is trying yet another approach to market the tough-to-sell Alejandro G. Iñárritu film.

The new Tom Cruise movie, the star’s first film outside of the action genre in almost a decade, has flopped in a major way at the box office. In North American theaters, “Digger” grossed just $8 million this weekend, according to studio estimates released by Rentrak on Sunday, Oct. 4.

In “Digger,” Tom Cruise portrays a powerful oil tycoon who is bracing for an ecological disaster of epic proportions. But nothing could have prepared him for the catastrophe that’s unfolding at the box office, where “Digger” has collapsed with an embarrassing $8 million from 3,321 North American theaters.

Tom Cruise‘s big-budget Digger finds itself in quite a hole with its opening weekend at the box office.

Tom Cruise isn’t prepared to bury Digger just yet, despite the movie’s disappointing box office opening.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu has never been a filmmaker particularly interested in playing things safe. From intimate character dramas to sprawling stories about survival, grief, ambition, and human excess, his films frequently operate on an enormous emotional and visual scale. Digger continues that tradition, but takes Iñárritu into much stranger territory. Part satirical black comedy, part…

Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger (read our review here) was supposed to be one of the biggest box-office events of the year. Instead, following a wave of mixed reviews and confusion over its cryptic marketing, the satirical dark comedy has rapidly become one of the most divisive films in recent memory.

Swing and a miss—that’s what’s happening this weekend with Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Tom Cruise-led film, Digger. Despite a huge $130 million budget and probably the most consistently popular movie star in the lead, the poor reviews and bad early buzz have done a number on the movie’s box office prospects. It’s opening even lower than we…