Tom Cruise's 2013 science-fiction film Oblivion, which cost around $286 million to make, is finding a new audience through digital streaming despite being largely overlooked when first released. The film sits between Minority Report and Edge of Tomorrow in Cruise's sci-fi output but never achieved the same acclaim, and its resurgence highlights how older big-budget films can find fresh life on digital platforms long after their theatrical run.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski in one of his earliest features before he went on to make Top Gun: Maverick and F1, Oblivion is set in 2077 and follows Cruise's character Jack Harper, a technician stationed above a supposedly abandoned Earth alongside communications officer Victoria Olsen, played by Andrea Riseborough. Their mission to maintain drones guarding resource-extraction machinery is upended when Jack rescues a woman from a crashed spacecraft, triggering a shift from post-apocalyptic setup into a stranger, more twist-laden narrative.