Anne Hathaway Defends Tom Cruise's Digger Following Disastrous Box Office Results
"Digger" is a financial catastrophe, there's no way around it. The latest film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, a satirical dark comedy that stars Tom Cruise as an aging oil magnate whose business sets off an ecological crisis, may lose as much as $250 million at the box office. It's particularly bad for a big-budget production that reportedly cost upwards of $200 million to make.
Iñárritu's movie has proven quite polarizing amongst audiences and critics, the /Film staff included. Our own Bill Bria called "Digger" an audacious but self-indulgent experiment that's saved by Cruise's performance. In many ways, it's a film that's bold, passionate, and unafraid to be alienating in the style of Stanley Kubrick This has led to a lot of discussion about the film online, all the more so in the wake of its disastrous opening weekend in theaters. Some folks have, in turn, argued that the movie's commercial failure is proof that it's simply no good, while others have insisted it's worth checking out on the big screen (whether you end up actually liking it or not).
Among those in the latter camp is none other than Anne Hathaway, the star of, well, several films that have come out in 2026. Indeed, the Oscar-winner took to Letterboxd (the popular social media platform where people post movie reviews) to share her opinions on "Digger."
"I loved this brilliant movie. It's smart and trippy and aggressive and funny and ambitious," Hathaway wrote in her 5 star review on the platform. "It's worth making the time [to] see and decide for yourself what you make of it. For me? 10/10."
There are bigger things to worry about than Digger underperforming
People being way too concerned with box office numbers isn't anything new. Yes, "Digger" is a huge commercial failure, and that's absolutely bad news for Tom Cruise, as this was seen as his return to prestige filmmaking after almost a decade of nothing but "Mission: Impossible" movies and action blockbusters. For Alejandro González Iñárritu, it's similarly a big blow, considering this is the most expensive film he's ever made and likely the last time he'll be given this kind of budget.
Still, to spin this as some sort of catastrophe for Warner Bros. and a sign that it should stay away from original movies with big budgets would be a mistake. After all, 2025 was a historically great year for the studio, with the likes of "Sinners" and "Weapons" doing big business at the box office on their way to winning some major awards. Granted, now that Warner Bros. and Paramount are merging to form the newly-named mega-corporate monster Skydance, the studio desperately needs to score a hit. But focusing solely on box office successes is the kind of thinking that led to this awful merger — one that places two legacy studios in massive debt — to begin with.
Not to mention, "Digger" losing money is nothing compared to Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav driving the studio to ruin by allowing it to be swallowed whole by another giant company, only to walk away with an extra $600 million in his pocket. So, seek out "Digger" for yourself, and make up your own mind. Anne Hathaway says so.