‘Cats’ Producers Respond to Twitter Trailer Backlash

The producers of “Cats” have seen the memes and read the mean tweets that greeted the first trailer for the big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage smash.When the initial teaser was launched this past summer, social media commentators feasted on the way that an A-list cast that includes Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden and Judi Dench had been feline-ized with whiskers and swishing tails, calling the transformation creepy.

The $100 million film is being released by Universal and produced by Working Title, the studio’s long-term partner.

Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, the two heads of London-based Working Title, are taking a “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” stance, noting that the online furor raised the movie’s profile.“What does one say?” says Fellner.

“The reality is that 100 million people or more saw the trailer, and, yes, there were some people that didn’t like it,

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