CATS Film Set to Bring in $7 Million in Opening Weekend; It cost 100M

[Miel 15,009]

I agree with everybody that, no matter what, releasing it on the same day that the final film of the main Star Wars saga is released? A disaster.

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

Everything about the film is just gross 

[Bradley 60,158]

A Star Is Born opened with $42.9 million just saying

[Delusional 9,221]

1 hour ago, Bradley said:

A Star Is Born opened with $42.9 million just saying

With a budget of $30 million for an R RATED film. 

don’t forget it released alongside venom and countless other movies 

[zakariah 11,787]

congratz to the creators of the film 'Cats' for earning $7M more than what I am worth, a stellar achievement  

[S0436 10,215]

Don’t worry with the updated CGI version coming out today it will make big bucks and they will have the last laugh.

[FfFfFfFF 58,120]

Phlop  

[Nicogly 2,579]

1 hour ago, S0436 said:

Don’t worry with the updated CGI version coming out today it will make big bucks and they will have the last laugh.

what, is that true?

 

[Defmix100 7,061]

5 hours ago, GagainsiderNYC said:

Plus apparently 25 million in advertising! Woof 

that's not bad then because often the marketing matches the budget so it could have been another $100 million in marketing

[nodandsmile 11,724]

omg what a waste of a 100M    all this money could have been invested in other promosing projects

I won't go see it in theaters, but I'll definitely check it out when it comes on digital which I thing might be sooner then expected. Probably a lot of other people will too, just to see the mess with their own eyes lol

[boiswifty 1,068]

Maybe if they gave Taylor the lead  

[Antichrist 9,818]

11 hours ago, Aquarius said:

congratz to the creators of the film 'Cats' for earning $7M more than what I am worth, a stellar achievement  

and loosing $93 millions, so congratz Aquarius, you are worth more than what they created

[Miracle 14,068]

15 hours ago, mauvais said:

Welp. Human-cats 'work' in a stage production (I guess, idgi personally) but the cats did not need to be human-cats for the film! People would've enjoyed watching little cats perform whimsical crackhead musical numbers (see: Youtube). Imagine if Disney said, "we're adapting the stage production of the Lion King with human giraffes" sdhfshdf.

There's a difference from costumes to literally making their skin fur 

[MessyTop 14,389]

Update! Not even 7 million:

How ‘Cats’ Became A Calamity At The Box Office With $6.5M Opening

https://deadline.com/2019/12/cats-bombs-at-the-box-office-reasons-why-1202813693/

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 Titlethis 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.

(from left) Victoria (Francesca Hayward) and Munkustrap (Robbie Fairchild) in “Cats,” co-written and directed by Tom Hooper. Universal

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. 

 

 

[Serial Chiller 8,044]

21 hours ago, ReginaGeorge said:

This is actually pretty awful. Imagine investing 100 millions into something and then getting only 7 millions in return. Such a bad business... This is why movie business is really dangerous.. 

I mean this had “DON’T DO IT” written all over it. Either the execs r really out of touch or they’re overconfident about the starpower of the cast. Ain’t nothing risky about doing this lol.