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How ‘Cats’ Became A Calamity At The Box Office With $6.5M Opening
Deadline ^ | December 22, 2019 | Anthony D'Alessandro

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 Webber’s 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 can’t 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, I’m saying this) for Universal and Working Title to not make a movie version of Cats.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; cats; hollywood; swift; taylorswift
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To: olesigh

Yeah them too. There was a big “I’m into Broadway, but not THAT Broadway” move in Cats’ heyday. There were “serious” goers, and Webber fans.


81 posted on 12/23/2019 8:05:21 AM PST by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: Drew68

Tay has had such a good year she can handle this. Especially since she got paid and also for the song. Plus she got to co-write with Andrew Lloyd Webber which was probably quite a thrill.

Now we await Joe’s proposal. And maybe a tiny blonde baby at some point. Just dont stop writing awesome songs.


82 posted on 12/23/2019 9:37:11 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: KC_Lion

Right? I’m ok with her staying in her music lane. Also no pity for her - she got paid well and had fun (and got to write with ALW!)


83 posted on 12/23/2019 9:40:29 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: nwrep

My granddad was to have said: “We paid money to see this?”


84 posted on 12/26/2019 6:49:07 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Larry Lucido

Real cats would lick themselves and then take a nap.


85 posted on 12/26/2019 6:51:14 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: discostu

So is what you get on day 2 of explosive shit storms.


86 posted on 12/26/2019 6:59:43 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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