Tag: Cats
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Steven Spielberg Advised Greta Gerwig To Shoot ‘Little Women’ On Film
While everyone is fighting over “Rise of Skywalker” and “Cats,” Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-hopeful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” is out there screaming at you because you are choosing to see weird and/or bad movies instead of good ones. While most if not all filmmakers ask someone for advice when making a film, Gerwig…
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Universal Releasing an Updated Version of ‘Cats’ with “Improved Visual Effects”
The big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Cats is already a disaster for a number of reasons. Chief among them are the unsettling cat-human hybrids at the center of the story, brought to life thanks to digital fur technology and motion-capture performances. Director Tom Hooper and the rest of his crew were working 36-hours…
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‘Cats’ Makes the Jellicle Choice to Get Updated VFX for a New Theatrical Version
In a completely unprecedented move, Universal Pictures is still working on Cats and a new version will be delivered soon. The Tom Hooper-directed movie musical adaptation has had the critical equivalent of a tongue-lashing this week with reviews — including our own — panning the film from here to the Heaviside Layer. Saddled with a…
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‘Cats’ Prints Updated by Universal With ‘Improved Visual Effects’
It’s not likely to help the cat-astrophic box office for the $100 million musical adaptation of “Cats,” but Universal is taking the unusual step of sending theaters a new version of the movie. The studio issued a memo to theaters saying the new digital prints would include “some improved visual effects,” according to sources.The news…
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‘Cats’ naps as ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ takes off at North American box office
Ford v Ferrari, Jumanji: The Next Level cross $100m.Universal / Working Title’s Cats flopped on $6.5m in fourth place at North American box office as Disney /Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker dominated the penultimate weekend of the year on an estimated $176m haul.J.J. Abrams’ final instalment in the third trilogy of the space…
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‘Cats’ Poor Reception Prompts Universal to Send an ‘Improved,’ Updated Version to Theaters
After Universal Pictures’ new film “Cats” was clawed and torn to shreds by critics last week, the studio told movie theaters on Friday that it would be sending a new version of the film with “some improved visual effects.”The move of replacing a film already in theaters with an “improved” version is unheard of But…
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New Version of ‘Cats’ Being Sent to Theaters With Improved Visual Effects
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”…
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Inside the Very Real Anthropomorphic Struggles of the ‘Cats’ Cast
Whether you find the titular characters in Tom Hooper’s live action adaptation of “Cats” adorable or horrifying, the truth is that a lot of work went into the singing and dancing creatures. The director and his team pioneered a new “digital fur technology” that merged footage of the actors on the film’s set with VFX,…
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‘Rise of Skywalker’ Good Enough but Down in Thursday Shows; ‘Cats’ Not Feline So Good
Per-theater averages are usually one of the nerdiest box-office metrics, but sometimes they’re incredibly acute. For example: Thursday-night numbers for “Cats” reflected about 25 ticket buyers per show, with two shows per theater.Remember “The Lion King” last summer? The remake with a somewhat derisive critical response (Metacritic: 55) saw a domestic gross of $544 million,…
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‘The Sneider Cut’ Ep. 21: ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Cats’ and The Best Movies of the Decade
On the latest episode of The Sneider Cut, Variety’s Justin Kroll joins your esteemed host Jeff Sneider, and together the two scoopers run down their Best Movies of the Decade lists, which feature a couple of the same titles, including Sicario. Elsewhere, Jeff and Justin discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and what it…