'Digger' Opens to $8 Million From 3,321 Theaters

Variety reports that “Digger,” in which Tom Cruise plays a powerful oil tycoon bracing for an ecological disaster of epic proportions, opened to an $8 million weekend from 3,321 North American theaters — a result the trade calls an embarrassing collapse for a release on that many screens. Run the arithmetic and it comes to roughly $2,400 per theater, the sort of average that suggests the film's star and its wide footprint were doing very different amounts of work. Big-screen spectacle about a catastrophe, undone by one of its own.