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Hollywood's Three Amigos Rally Around Sinking 'Digger'
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In Short: The trio, known as 'the Three Amigos,' have a history dating back to the late 1980s in Mexico's film industry.
Del Toro dismissed negative reviews, praising 'Digger' for its ambition and theatrical scale.
The trio, known as 'the Three Amigos,' have a history dating back to the late 1980s in Mexico's film industry.
Cuarón and del Toro met through Televisa’s anthology series La Hora Marcada, while Iñárritu met Cuarón in the mid-1990s.
Iñárritu's 'Digger' follows a personal filmmaking journey that began after 'The Revenant' and took ten years to develop.
The film's high budget, estimated at up to $180 million, has drawn criticism from some moviegoers.
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- By then, the friends were becoming Hollywood powers, producing a series of films both intensely personal and enormously profitable.
- He returned to Mexico in between for 2022’s intensely personal, Spanish-language Bardo — a Netflix release that was similarly divisive — but has said the idea for Digger came in the aftermath of The Revenant and took a full ten years to bring to the screen.
- Iñárritu ’s Digger entered a box-office death spiral, two familiar defenders appeared.
- Guillermo del Toro blasted as “entirely petty” an IGN post suggesting moviegoers save their money and wait to stream the Tom Cruise vehicle, whose budget has been estimated as high as $180 million, praising Digger instead for its ambition and theatrical scale.
- It looked like two members of the Mexican filmmaking triumvirate long ago christened “the Three Amigos” circling the wagons around the third.
- Cuarón and del Toro met in Mexico’s film and television world in the late 1980s, most famously around Televisa’s Twilight Zone -like anthology La Hora Marcada, whose orbit also included future three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki.
- He met Cuarón in the mid-1990s, when Cuarón was already working in Hollywood, and has described him as an early mentor.