In a most unusual turn, Universal Pictures has sent out a memo to theaters stating that the studio will provide a new and updated version of director Tom Hooper’s Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation, “Cats.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal sent out a memo indicating that the new version would have “some improved visual effects” — and according to THR, it’s being done at Hooper’s behest.The move follows widespread criticism of the film’s uncanny-valley aesthetic, which, at one point, seems to involve human faces pasted onto the bodies of mice and dancing cockroaches.
The movie is struggling at the box office, having earned $2.6 million on Friday and on a budget of nearly $100 million.
The film’s Cinemascore was a C+ and its Rotten Tomatoes score is currently sitting at a painful 19%.Tom Hooper, who won a Best Directing Academy Award in 2011 for “The King’s Speech,” has
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