Digger Bombed. Hollywood Is About to Learn the Wrong Lesson.
Digger opened to about $8 million, Tom Cruise's worst start since 2007, on a budget that swelled past $160 million. The easy takeaway is that audiences don't want originals. The real one is about what studios are willing to pay for them, and it lands the same week Paramount takes over Warner Bros.
Resident Evil (2026): Why Zach Cregger's Reboot Actually Works
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot skipped Leon, Claire, and Jill entirely, and still opened at #1 with a 96% Tomatometer. A look at why treating the games as a sandbox instead of a script finally cracked the video game movie curse, and why Cregger says he's done doing this again.