Hollywood Defends ‘Digger’: Anne Hathaway and More Praise Tom Cruise’s Flop as Guillermo del Toro Says ‘Love the Arts. F— the Charts’

Oct 9, 2026 7:19am PT Hollywood Defends ‘Digger’: Anne Hathaway and More Praise Tom Cruise’s Flop as Guillermo del Toro Says ‘Love the Arts. F— the Charts’

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Hollywood is coming to the defense of Tom Cruise as “Digger” becomes one of the biggest studio bombs in movie history. In the week since “Digger” opened in theaters to a disastrous $8 million domestically, industry names such as Anne Hathaway, Jane Fonda, Guillermo del Toro, Mandy Patinkin, Glen Powell and more have used social media to champion the movie. As del Toro bluntly put it on X: “Love the arts. Fuck the charts.”

“I loved this brilliant movie. It’s smart and trippy and aggressive and funny and ambitious,” Hathaway wrote on Letterboxd. “It’s worth making the time see and decide for yourself what you make of it. For me? 10/10.”

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