Climate-disaster satire 'Digger' faces a chilly box office opening as Tom Cruise gambles on WB

Tom Cruise plays an oil baron at the center of an ecological catastrophe in "Digger," a satire that some have billed as a climate disaster comedy. The bigger crisis may be at the box office, where the film opens Friday tracking for just $12M to $15M in North America.

Climate-disaster satire 'Digger' faces a chilly box office opening as Tom Cruise gambles on WB

TL;DR

  • Tom Cruise stars in the film "Digger" as an oil baron.
  • The film is a satire and has been called a climate disaster comedy.
  • The movie is predicted to have a low box office opening.
  • Expected North American box office earnings are between $12 million and $15 million.