Tag: Cats
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Darren Aronofsky Wanted Joaquin Phoenix for His ‘Batman’ Movie
Anyone who saw yesterday’s ramblings on Hugh Jackman almost starring in Cats knows that we here at Collider are obsessed with alternate timeline movies, a.k.a. the big projects we almost got before plans fell through. At the top of that list is Darren Aronofsky’s Batman movie, which the filmmaker came close to making after the…
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‘Splash’ Goes Viral After 36 Years for Bizarre VFX Used to Hide Nudity on Disney+
Only in the age of streaming could Ron Howard’s 1984 fantasy romance “Splash” find itself going viral. A rather bizarre edit of the movie on Disney+ is making the rounds on social media due to the fuzzy visual effects that have been added to the movie in order to hide the nudity on display. It…
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Yes, Buttholes Had to Be Edited out of ‘Cats’
Cats was perhaps destined for failure. As Lindsay Ellis points out in her recent video essay, Universal’s thinking was that a hit stage musical combined with a prestige director like Tom Hooper would equal massive success and lots of awards, and they could not have been more wrong. The key conflict is that Tom Hooper…
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‘In homage to cockroach limbs’: Tom Hooper’s Cats commentary deepens the mystery
The man behind the much-maligned musical film has shared some of its secrets – prepare to be baffledTom Hooper, the Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, has revealed (some of) the logic behind the creative choices guiding his most recent film, Cats.A starry version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit stage musical, Cats primarily met with…
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Seth Rogen’s Live-Tweeting of ‘Cats’ While ‘Pretty Stoned’ Is Purrfect Distraction Right Now
Like an act of divine intervention, Tom Hooper’s big-budget bomb “Cats” was made available for digital rental on Tuesday while the world is home alone and self-isolated, and thankfully, Seth Rogen took to Twitter to entertain us all by live-tweeting his surreal and “trippy” experience watching it.Rogen on Tuesday night said he got high and…
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Paw performance: Cats dominates Razzie nominations
British actors including Judi Dench and James Corden among worst actor nomineesThe widely panned movie musical Cats and four of its stars have been nominated for Razzie awards, an annual ritual that lampoons the worst of cinema.James Corden, Judi Dench, Rebel Wilson and Francesca Hayward received Razzie acting nominations for their Cats roles, in which…
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Brian Blessed: ‘All my life, 90% of men have bored the arse off me’
Dressed in pyjamas and wellies, the great actor talks about his astronaut training in Russia, the original Cats – and putting his might behind his daughter Rosalind’s very personal playsOn a shelf in Brian Blessed’s study is a plastic toy, a replica of himself as Prince Vultan in the film Flash Gordon. There is a…
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Seeing ‘Cats’ on Drugs Is Blowing Everybody’s Minds: ‘Terrifying,’ ‘My Soul Escaped Me’
Tom Hooper’s “Cats” is harrowing even if you’re sober. An unholy, digital-fur-coated dive into the uncanny valley, set in a London made to look like a New Orleans red-light district, the movie boasts plenty of disturbing visuals: it’s a sexless world where the cats have no genitals, but there are cat breasts, cats thrusting, and…
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Box office cats-tastrophe: Cats projected to lose $70m
The Universal Pictures film is bound for the litter box as one of 2019’s biggest flopsCats appears set to make movie hiss-tory – as a major box office failure for Universal Pictures.The critically panned film, which had a reported budget of $95m (£72m), made only $6.62m (£5m) during its opening weekend and is projected to…
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‘Cats’ is Tap Dancing Its Way to a Possible $100 Million Box Office Loss
The only thing Cats can’t drag in is more money. Tom Hooper‘s pricey big-screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is on track to lose up to $100 million at the box office, making the Universal film one of the biggest box office bombs of the year. Cats just can’t land on its feet.…