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# Celebrities mount unusual campaign to rehabilitate Cruise’s ‘Digger’
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/celebrities-mount-unusual-campaign-to-rehabilitate-cruises-digger/
- Published: 2026-10-18T17:46:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-18T17:46:46.000Z
- Description: The Ankler’s Katey Rich reports that stars including Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Ron Howard, Jane Fonda, Padma Lakshmi and Neil Young have publicly praised Tom Cruise’s box-office flop “Digger” in the two weeks since it bombed.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Streaming, Katey Rich, The Ankler: campaign to save Tom Cruise's Digger

**Why it matters.** If the campaign sways Oscar voters despite the film’s financial failure, studios gain cover to greenlight similarly risky, expensive auteur projects without box-office success being disqualifying.

*Signal from* [*The Ankler*](https://theankler.com/?ref=medianexis.com) *·* [*Katey Rich*](https://www.medianexis.com/tag/by-katey-rich/) *·* [*read the original*](https://theankler.com/strange-celebrity-campaign-to-save-tom-cruise-digger/?ref=medianexis.com)*.*