Cats Box Office Failure
That report too puts the combined production and marketing costs at roughly 200 million.
Cats box office failure. Following dismal reviews and endless mockery on social media Cats has flopped at the US and UK box office. But even if Cats was a visual masterpiece it may still have bombed at the box office due to its inherently strange nature. If playback doesnt begin.
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. The film is set to lose around USD 100 million in revenue despite its star-studded cast and already well-established plotline. Cats is a bad movie.
Instead the filmmaking team behind the box office disaster got a lump of coal. 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. However these werent the only problems with Cats.
29 Dec 2019 212 PM. Director Tom Hoopers Cats is going to lose a boatload of money and will go down as one of the biggest box office. 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.
In the film and media industry if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount it is considered a box office bomb thus losing money for the distributor studio andor production company that invested in it. 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. Part of this failure relates to problems in adaptation.
Cats Lands in the Litter Box with Estimated Losses of 70M or More. 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.