Lions For Lambs
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Oct 11, 2026
Tyler SmithHOST
Not a lot.
Tyler SmithHOST
I'm gonna kick things off with Lion f- Lions for Lambs.
David BaxHOST
[laughs] Yeah.
Tyler SmithHOST
Wow.
David BaxHOST
Yeah, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, which is, uh-
Tyler SmithHOST
Whew.
Tyler SmithHOST
That is-
Tyler SmithHOST
Um...
Chris HewittHOST
This is gonna be one of those movies that in 10, 15, 20 years from now, maybe even sooner, it's gonna be reevaluated as a classic and a masterpiece." Uh, it made $8 million at the US box office in its opening weekend, which is the lowest opening weekend, I believe, of Tom Cruise's career for, for a long, long time anyway.
Chris HewittHOST
I think maybe his Robert Redford movie, Lions for Lambs, opened to less.
James DyerHOST
Which I like.
Helen O'HaraHOST
I liked it as well, yeah.
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Andrew GarfieldGUEST
I remember reading...
Andrew GarfieldGUEST
I, I was in LA, and I was, you know, like just auditioning and hoping against hope that I would be able to make films and make things that I loved.
Andrew GarfieldGUEST
And I think I'd already made Lions for Lambs-
Chris HewittHOST
Mm-hmm
Lex GHOST
And I guess to loop it back in, that was the thing, is, like, everyone goes, oh, man, the roll call of directors Cruise worked with from, like, 81, even, to about 2005, 2006, whatever, 2007, I guess.
Lex GHOST
Even you throw in Robert Redford, Lions for Lambs, even...
Lex GHOST
it was very much like he was picking really singular filmmakers and you can go through the whole, you know, Paul Brickman and then Curtis Hanson and Francis Ford Coppola and Tony Scott and Ridley Scott and Oliver Stone and Barry Levinson and, On and on and on.
Lex GHOST
Sidney Pollack, Neil Jordan, on up to Kubrick in 99, Cameron Crowe, two movies with Spielberg.
Landon SheetzHOST
course But that doesn't do super great at the box office.
Landon SheetzHOST
Lions for Lambs, I think he's just kind of...
Landon SheetzHOST
He's not like a main guy in that.
Landon SheetzHOST
I've never seen it, but...
LafayetteHOST
... what was it? $8 million.
CarlosHOST
19 years since Lions for Lambs.
CarlosHOST
Studio says 125 million budget.
CarlosHOST
Reports say 160 to 180, plus 100 million in marketing.
Katey RichHOST
It's not the worst opening in Tom Cruise's career.
Katey RichHOST
Do you know what still holds the record? Lions for Lambs? Lions for Lambs.
Katey RichHOST
I was just going to say this doesn't count.
David EhrlichHOST
Lions for Lambs, sadly, also cost $173 million.
Katey RichHOST
No, no getting around that Meryl Streep salary.
Katey RichHOST
I never saw Lions
Katey RichHOST
have absolutely no idea.
Katey RichHOST
Next week's
Movie GuruHOST
With a budget of $160 to $180 million, Digger won't just be one of the biggest flops of the year, but most likely one of the biggest flops ever.
Movie GuruHOST
It also marked Cruise's lowest debut since 2007's Lions for Lambs.
Movie GuruHOST
Unfortunately, Warner Brothers failed to get a single film to $100 million domestically this year.
Movie GuruHOST
Ouch.
Miranda WilkinsHOST
[laughs] Sad days.
Meghan McCainHOST
It was $125 million to make, which by the way seems like a lot for, like, an art house movie, and it made a little under $8 million over the weekend, his lowest opening since Lions for Lambs, which came out in 27...
Meghan McCainHOST
Excuse me, 2007, which I said 20...
Meghan McCainHOST
His biggest bomb in 20 years.
RugboyPANELIST
Yeah.
ImranHOST
And then that movie right before, Lions for Lambs, that's the last flop, uh, that he had.
RugboyPANELIST
Yeah, I mean, it's clear the audience is not a fan of him, seeing him in stuff like this.
ImranHOST
So Cruise wasn't able, not this way, put people in seats.
Scott MendelsonHOST
In movies that looked uncommercial on paper, and spoiler, were uncommercial, Digger opened with $8 million in 3,320 theaters.
Scott MendelsonHOST
Sam's supporting performances in Lions for Lambs, which he was the third-biggest character in that movie, this is Tom Cruise's worst opening as a lead since Legend in 1985, which opened with $4 million, and that was before Top Gun.
Scott MendelsonHOST
And just for perspective, the $1.2 million platform debut in around 400 screens of All the Right Moves in I believe 1983 would be about $6 million today.
Scott MendelsonHOST
So we all, I mean, I think most of us that were at CinemaCon were like, "Oh my God, this does not look anything like what I thought it was going to be for the last two years." We all saw this coming.
Jeremy FusterPANELIST
There were only two movies in Tom Cruise's career with opening weekends lower than Digger on a minimum 1,000 screens.
Jeremy FusterPANELIST
Can you name them?
Scott MendelsonHOST
Are we counting Lions for Lambs?
Jeremy FusterPANELIST
Yes.
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