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Tom Cruise's New Film Gets Title, Release Date

Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell in a dark comedy exploring power and destruction, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, set for an October 2, 2026 release.

  • Set for Oct. 2, 2026, Tom Cruise unveiled the film's title Digger and poster on his X account while Warner Bros. released a short teaser.
  • Alejandro G. Iñárritu said at Cannes that making his first film with Tom Cruise, shot in London, was terrifying and as challenging as Birdman, signaling a push into dark comedy.
  • The teaser shows Cruise in cowboy boots dancing with a shovel in a Los Angeles–type low-rent apartment and on a pier, while the film poster markets it as `a comedy of catastrophic proportions`.
  • Tom Cruise will star as Digger Rockwell alongside Sandra Huller, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde and Emma D'Arcy, with early responses calling the film scary, funny and beautiful.
  • A logline describes the story as the `most powerful man in the world` racing to save humanity, while publicity positions the film as a brutal, wild comedy, signaling a tonal shift for Cruise.
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The film Digger, the new film project that brings together American actor Tom Cruise and Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, will premiere in cinemas in October 2026.

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After finishing the chapter "Mission: Impossible", Tom Cruise will be back in 2026 in "Digger". Shot in the greatest secret by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the film reveals itself in an enigmatic teaser. Grimé, the 63-year-old actor performs a strange choreography, a shovel as an accessory... - Tom Cruise metamorphosed in "Digger": the most zinzin movie of his entire career? (Culture, media and entertainment).

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Tom Cruise's new film gets title, release date

The poster for Tom Cruise’s upcoming film, ‘Digger.’ (Warner Bros. Pictures) Tom Cruise‘s newest film has a title and release date. The actor stars in the upcoming movie Digger. Warner Bros. Pictures is releasing the film, which is helmed by The Revenant director Alejandro González Iñárritu, in theaters on Oct. 2, 2026. Cruise took to Instagram on Thursday to share the new comedy film’s poster. “Introducing… DIGGER. A comedy of catastrophic prop…

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The Film Stage broke the news in on Thursday, December 18, 2025.
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