On Cusp of Merger, ‘Digger Bombs for Warner Bros., ‘Verity’ Takes No. 1 at Box Office – WTOP News
The Amazon MGM Studios thriller opened with $32.6 million as Tom Cruise’s satire finished fifth with $8 million and weak audience scores.
- On Sunday, Amazon MGM Studios' Verity led the North American box office with a $62.5 million global opening. The thriller, based on a novel by author Colleen Hoover and starring actress Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett, drew 78% female audiences.
- Starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alejandro Inarritu, Warner Bros.' political satire Digger struggled with a $20 million global debut. The $160 million production earned a C+ CinemaScore, marking Cruise's worst opening since 2007.
- While Verity marked Hathaway's fourth film to open over $20 million this year, Digger faced scathing reviews. Critics slammed the political comedy as a "strained climate change farce," though Cruise's performance drew warmer reception.
- Studio heads Pam Abdy and Michael De Luca are expected to depart Warner Bros. this week as the studio's merger with Paramount nears. Mass layoffs are anticipated to follow.
- Resident Evil maintained momentum in its third week with $12.5 million, while new releases arriving Friday include The Social Reckoning, Other Mommy, and Angel and the Badman. The competitive landscape shapes the coming weeks.
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In director Michael Showalter's adaptation of Colleen Hoover's Verity, the title figure is a fabulously wealthy celebrity who appears willing to go to psychotic extremes to get a little peace and quiet. Having now appeared in five films over the past six months, and with [...]
Alejandro G. Inarritu-directed film takes just $20M worldwide in opening weekend against reported production budget of up to $150M
The black comedy had to settle for a meagre $8 million harvest at the North American box office
Tom Cruise's most recent film earned him his worst box office debut in nearly 20 years: the black comedy Digger, which cost $160 million to produce, only collected $8 million at the North American counter and $20 million worldwide, very disappointing results that predicted losses of about $150 million.
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