Cats Box Office Failure

Musical Misfire to Lose 100 Million Variety.

Cats box office failure. Instead Cats fell short of expectations and clawed its way to 65 million at the domestic box office. You get a film that tanks at the box office. Chris DElia Reacts to Cats Box Office Failure.

Cats Is A Box Office Bomb That Looked On Paper Like A Safe Bet. Tom Hoopers movie musical Cats is on track to lose 71 million at the box office. Cats appears set to make movie hiss-tory as a major box office failure for Universal Pictures.

Part of this failure relates to problems in adaptation. 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Lloyd Webbers smash-hit musical Cats currently in cinemas has bombed at the box office been savaged by critics and withdrawn from Oscar consideration. 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.

Universals Cats was in need of a holiday miracle. 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. One expert called it a word-of-mouth failure.

Cats dismal box office performance its headed for a hundred million dollar loss is just further evidence that the folks that made it never understood why the original was so popular in the first place. If playback doesnt begin. But even if Cats was a visual masterpiece it may still have bombed at the box office due to its inherently strange nature.

How should creators transpose animal characters from stage to screen. Instead the filmmaking team behind the box office disaster got a lump of coal. The film is set to lose around USD 100 million in revenue despite its star-studded cast and already well-established plotline.