‘Verity’ To Seduce $55M+ Worldwide Opening As Box Office Braces For ‘Digger’ Impact – Global Preview — SkimNews
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- Verity (Amazon MGM), the Colleen Hoover adaptation starring Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway, is tracking $30M+ domestic at 3,510 theaters and $20M-$25M from 70 offshore territories for a $50M-$55M+ global start, with U.S./Canada presales behind It Ends With Us but advance sales above that film in Brazil
- Digger (Warner Bros/Legendary), the Alejandro Iñárritu-directed Tom Cruise film, tracks $12M-$15M domestic at 3,300 theaters and $15M-$20M from 73 foreign territories for roughly $35M worldwide against a reported $125M-$150M net production cost and a global marketing spend approaching $100M
- Digger holds a 52% Rotten Tomatoes critical score, with Warners running a final marketing spot that has clocked 2.2 million views leaning into the film's controversy as a selling point
- Tom Cruise's post-2000 low domestic openings cited for comparison include Lions for Lambs ($6.7M), Rock of Ages ($14.4M), Jack Reacher ($15.2M), and American Made ($16.7M), while 2017's The Mummy opened to $31.6M and finaled at $80.2M domestic and $409.2M worldwide
- Lionsgate's horror film Beware Boiuna also opens in 1,350 theaters and is tracking single-digit millions domestically
- Holds: A24's Primetime has reached a $23.8M running total, Paramount's The Heart of the Beast sits at $26M with a projected -40% second-weekend dip, and the Avengers: Endgame: Encore reissue stands at $31.1M heading into a -60% drop
Why it matters: If Digger opens at the low end of tracking, it would deliver one of Cruise's worst wide debuts against a $125M-$150M production and roughly $100M global marketing spend, exposing how expensive star-driven originals outside the Mission: Impossible cycle have become for traditional studios.
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