Posted on 12/22/2019 11:54:41 AM PST by EdnaMode
The atrocious response from audiences and critics toward the feature adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webbers Cats has no doubt upset execs at Universal and Working Title this weekend. The movie wound up opening below its $10M-$15M projections to $6.5M, and while you cant expect much business-wise from adult-skewing movies outside of Star Wars before Christmas Day, the audience PostTrak exits of 2 Stars and a C+ CinemaScore indicate a significantly less than Greatest Showman or Mary Poppins Returns box office future (those two holiday films scored A and A- CinemaScores) for the Tom Hooper directed musical.
In an age when we demand other prolific choices on the marquee outside of standard superhero and family franchise IP, musicals have shown to be a solid form of counterprogramming that taps into female audiences. Hence, the biggest mistake would be (yes, critics, Im saying this) for Universal and Working Title to not make a movie version of Cats.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
Years ago, we took a family trip to New York. Everybody else went to Broadway to see ‘Cats’. I went to Bleecker Street to see George Coleman.
Hence, the biggest mistake would be (yes, critics, Im saying this) for Universal and Working Title to not make a movie version of Cats.
It’s sad to think that there are people who live in a
universe like that...
“Charlie’s Tabbies”
“Mouse Busters”
“Freaky Catday”
“Calico and the Bandit”
C3P0 In The Garden Of Good And Done To Death”
lol I remember wanting to HANG myself when I saw it way back 20 something years ago.
I went with a girlfriend and cracked jokes through the whole nightmare
I’ve never understood the appeal. If you don’t like actual cats, you don’t have any interest in people dressed up as cats. And if you DO like cats, you like CATS, not... people dressed up as cats. I just don’t get it.
As for the headline, they really missed a “catastrophe” opportunity there.
That is so true.
‘Cats’ is one of the few musicals I never played. Probably a good thing.
They looked like deformed cats..when I first saw the trailer I thought it was a horror film
Furry
The studio is actually rushing out
a copy with better special effects, downloads and hard copies.
The trailer looked terrible for this miscarriage
Get woke, go broke Taylor.
I like the music from Cats. All of it.
I know it makes me a plebe but there is something about it that just works.
for me.
I saw Phantom 4 times.
Just hated Cats
So basically Cats and Bombshell are the two worst films of the year.
Furries, all alone in the moonlight, with their suits all creative, and their Cats to look forward to, I remember when liking cartoons was just weird enough on its own, then these furries did come in....
Best review of it so far:
“Before I saw the movie Cats, I was not a cat person. After seeing the movie Cats, I’m not a movie person either.”
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