Cats Box Office Failure
Cats Is A Box Office Bomb That Looked On Paper Like A Safe Bet.
Cats box office failure. The critically panned film which had a reported budget of. Universals Cats was in need of a holiday miracle. The US100 million film version of Andrew Lloyd Webbers smash-hit musical Cats currently in cinemas has bombed at the box office been savaged by critics and withdrawn from Oscar consideration.
Musical Misfire to Lose 100 Million Variety. Like really really bad. Michael Ciminos drama is notable for being one of the biggest box office bombs of its time losing the studio an estimated 37m over 114 million when adjusted for inflation.
Based on Andrew Lloyd Webbers long-running Broadway musical of the same name Cats struggled to find its footing after its first trailer dropped back in July confusing viewers with its uncomfortably realistic digital fur technologyDespite an all-star cast that includes Taylor Swift Idris Elba Jennifer. You get a film that tanks at the box office. Universal has pulled Cats starring Taylor Swift and Idris Elba out of its awards consideration list after negative reviews and a poor box office performance.
Cats is a bad movie. In the US the Tom Hooper -directed musical grossed just 65m 5m in its opening. Cats cost nearly 100 million to make but is going nowhere at the box office.
Part of this failure relates to problems in adaptation. Cats appears set to make movie hiss-tory as a major box office failure for Universal Pictures. The film is set to lose around USD 100 million in revenue despite its star-studded cast and already well-established plotline.
This just goes to show that Wilson isnt afraid to call out box office failures especially when shes in it. Following dismal reviews and endless mockery on social media Cats has flopped at the US and UK box office. Instead the filmmaking team behind the box office disaster got a lump of coal.