Inside ‘weird’ and ‘controlled’ Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ press event and why Hollywood is ditching film critic influencers
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Source: New York Post
Published: 2026-07-30 23:45 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Culture & Entertainment, Media, World News
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Hollywood studios have fallen under the influence of influencers. And why wouldn’t they? Increasingly, major studios are cutting peskily unpredictable journalists and critics out of their pre-release strategies in a world where a movie-loving TikToker named Straw Hat Goofy might be the industry’s new Pauline Kael.
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