Cats Box Office Failure
That report too puts the combined production and marketing costs at roughly 200 million.
Cats box office failure. However these werent the only problems with Cats. You get a film that tanks at the box office. Cats Box Office Flop.
But even if Cats was a visual masterpiece it may still have bombed at the box office due to its inherently strange nature. Chris DElia Reacts to Cats Box Office Failure - YouTube. So perhaps Varietys estimate of a 100 million theatrical loss is closer to the truth.
Cats cost nearly 100 million to make but is going nowhere at the box office. Instead Cats fell short of expectations and clawed its way to 65 million at the domestic box office. 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. 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. Solo a Star Wars Story - Kathleen Kennedy waited until the film was mostly done before deciding that she didnt like what the creative team behind it was doing at which point she fired them hired a new director and basically had everything start from scratch.
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. By the sounds of it Cats will likely wind up with a domestic total box office gross of less than 30 million. This just goes to show that Wilson isnt afraid to call out box office failures especially when shes in it.
The critically panned film which had a reported budget of. Cats Is A Box Office Bomb That Looked On Paper Like A Safe Bet. In the US the Tom Hooper -directed musical grossed just 65m 5m in its opening.