Celebrities mount unusual campaign to rehabilitate Cruise’s ‘Digger’
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.
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.
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