Digger heading for $245m loss after 60% second-weekend drop

Variety projects Tom Cruise's film Digger will lose around $245m after ticket sales dropped 60% in its second weekend.

• Digger's second weekend North American gross fell 60% to $3.2m, bringing its global total to $35.3m.
• Variety projects a final worldwide gross of about $50m against estimated production and marketing costs of roughly $280m.
• The trade magazine set the break-even point at $350m; a Warner Bros spokesman told Variety it is $300m.
• Cruise said he "never thought of movies when I'm making them" in terms of opening weekend, focusing instead on films that last and evolve.