Cats

p to the e · 19-07-2019 02:29PM

pixelburp · 19-07-2019 02:44PM

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

I'm just gonna admit it, furrie Francesca Hayward & taylor swift in the trailer has made me aware of a fetish I didnt know i had.

That said rebel wilson as a comic relief character and James Cordon plain and simply ruin the rest of it.

I suspect the guiding reactions are either screaming revulsion, or the cause of a surge in Google searches for Furry / Anthro related material lol

https://imgur.com/a/EyroSXC

JohnFalstaff · 19-07-2019 02:47PM

conorhal wrote: »

Cats itself is a wierd choice to adapt, it's a series of TS Elliot poems put to music with no real plot to speak of (or speaking parts al all for that matter).
I can see this movie loosing a massive amount of money for the studio.

I reckon it will make a ton of money. Live action musical is one of the safest box office bets currently and Cats is positioned as this year's big holiday season musical. It's following in the footsteps of The Greatest Showman which many also predicted would flop. Families flocked to it.

It depends on how family friendly Cats is, but I can see a whole young teen demographic coming for Taylor Swift alone. Sticking my neck out I'll go for 4-500m worldwide.

gmisk · 19-07-2019 03:08PM

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

I reckon it will make a ton of money. Live action musical is one of the safest box office bets currently and Cats is positioned as this year's big holiday season musical. It's following in the footsteps of The Greatest Showman which many also predicted would flop. Families flocked to it.

It depends on how family friendly Cats is, but I can see a whole young teen demographic coming for Taylor Swift alone. Sticking my neck out I'll go for 4-500m worldwide.

I think the musical is pretty crap tbh (and lacks good songs), that trailer looks a disaster but as you say people love an oul musical and its a known musical...Les Mis did 440m in 2012...you could be right!

The greatest showman did well because of word of mouth (and in fairness it has some serious tunes) it did fairly poorly opening week....I cant see this doing the same.

2smiggy · 19-07-2019 03:17PM

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

It's following in the footsteps of The Greatest Showman which many also predicted would flop. Families flocked to it.

It depends on how family friendly Cats is, but I can see a whole young teen demographic coming for Taylor Swift alone. Sticking my neck out I'll go for 4-500m worldwide.

The Greatest Showman some great songs, likable characters, and a decent story to it.

Having read up on Cats the musical, and the story behind it, I can't really see where they will go with the film. But sur who know's what will happen !!

JohnFalstaff · 19-07-2019 03:19PM

gmisk wrote: »

The greatest showman did well because of word of mouth (and in fairness it has some serious tunes) it did fairly poorly opening week....I cant see this doing the same.

Greatest Showman was an original property, which makes its box office success even more impressive in the current climate. Cats has four decades worth of audience recognition that will help its opening weekend.

gmisk · 19-07-2019 03:27PM

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

Greatest Showman was an original property, which makes its box office success even more impressive in the current climate. Cats has four decades worth of audience recognition that will help its opening weekend.

Yep as I said, cats is a known musical.
Id think it will definitely be front loaded (as in a big couple of weeks then a steep decline...unless its good obviously)

gmisk · 19-07-2019 03:28PM

2smiggy wrote: »

Having read up on Cats the musical, and the story behind it, I can't really see where they will go with the film. But sur who know's what will happen !!

I have seen it on stage.....the story is gubbins....and the songs are pretty poor.
But its a known property (like Les Mis) so will probably do gang busters.

Wicked is the musical adaptation I will be looking forward to!

Royale with Cheese · 19-07-2019 04:33PM

Got as far as James Corden before having to turn it off. Immediately.

Agent Coulson · 19-07-2019 05:35PM

Ye I have no words.

Hangdogroad · 19-07-2019 05:57PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U

As someone who has never seen the musical this looks very wrong.

Oh , Jaysus not James Corden.

This looks horrific.

Dial Hard · 19-07-2019 06:00PM

jim-jam wrote:

As someone who has seen the musical it looks very wrong.

That CGI... whyyyyyyyyyy??? Why not just do make-up and costumes like in the show? That's where the stage version works because, let's face it, the plot and music are pretty poor commons, but this??? This is just a fever-dream of wrongness. Whole lot of nope from me, and I say that as an ALW fan.

RickBlaine · 19-07-2019 10:18PM

It is currently slated to be released on the same weekend as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. That will certainly eat into its its potential grosses so I wouldn't be surprised if it gets pushed up to earlier in December. Delaying it until January is a much less prestigious release date.

Optimalprimerib · 20-07-2019 07:21AM

Just make the Hamilton movie ffs. Without James Corden. Or rebel Wilson.

Slydice · 20-07-2019 04:35PM

Slydice wrote: »

I usually find musicals difficult to understand. Even films like A Knights Tale threw me a bit by including numbers.

I find this trailer very very difficult to understand.

I eh.. okay so cats seems to get quite deep then :eek:

https://twitter.com/momo_obrien/status/1152117677571432448

conorhal · 20-07-2019 09:17PM

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Furries: The Musical

Sad Professor · 21-07-2019 04:15PM

Actors digitally dressed as cats... Looks demented. Only Tom Hooper hot off of multiple award winning films that have given him an inflated sense of his own talent could be behind this. I think I hate everything about it.

conorhal · 22-07-2019 11:57AM

Sad Professor wrote: »

Actors digitally dressed as cats... Looks demented. Only Tom Hooper hot off of multiple award winning films that have given him an inflated sense of his own talent could be behind this. I think I hate everything about it.

I see a few bits online from the production art from Spielberg's aborted attempt to make the film version before Dreamworks traditional animation devision got shuttered and it looked great.

There's shades of Don Bluth to the designs, it's a shame that traditional cell animation in cinema is so dead and unapealing to younger generations that it's a dying artform at this stage, or at the very least becoming very niche. It would have added far more then this snapchat horror show ever could.

Concept sketch for McCavity

https://twitter.com/cartoonbrew/status/1152326888540573700

TiGeR KiNgS · 22-07-2019 07:26PM

Slydice wrote: »

I eh.. okay so cats seems to get quite deep then :eek:

https://twitter.com/momo_obrien/status/1152117677571432448

Can't believe i watched over 2 mins of that clip

Niska · 23-07-2019 03:39PM

Well, I no longer want a live action Thundercats movie...

branie2 · 23-07-2019 04:23PM

Miaow!

bnt · 19-09-2019 11:48AM

I've never seen Cats and only know the one song - no prizes for guessing which one - and so it took me a while to recognise the running Cats joke in Bojack Horseman, for example. I see there's a behind-the-scenes featurette up now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkF4OXSyqL0

James Corden wrote:

You're going to take a load of people, and they're going to pretend to be cats. If you just say it out loud, it's bonkers. But that's where the most fun happens, really.

:P

bnt · 19-11-2019 08:31PM

A new trailer has landed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTDoOmc1OQ

Slydice · 19-11-2019 09:02PM

I .. eh.. this is the 'but We've got Idris Elba' trailer?

p to the e · 19-12-2019 09:51AM

Well... the reviews are in. Ouch

el Fenomeno · 19-12-2019 10:49AM

p to the e wrote: »

Well... the reviews are in. Ouch

They're such fun to read. My personal favourite that I saw on twitter:

"Watching CATS is like stumbling upon an unholy and heretofore unknown genre of porn. Every time these horny fur demons tongue a milk bowl and start moaning I was certain the FBI would raid the theater."

Harry Palmr · 19-12-2019 11:37AM

Bradshaw in the guardian loved it
Actually he thought it was sh1t
So wrote in rhyme but it didn't save time
For him or us
Cats is a perfectly awful load of puss.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/19/cats-review-tom-hooper-judi-dench-idris-elba-taylor-swift

johnny_ultimate · 19-12-2019 12:22PM

It's a rare treat to see not just one good, mean pan... but seemingly every critic in every major publication coming together in harmony to crucify some awful piece of ****e.

super_furry · 19-12-2019 12:25PM

I get the feeling that 10, maybe 20 years from now this will be a cult favourite like The Room.

Kermit.de.frog · 19-12-2019 12:28PM

I heard this was going to be the horror event of the year.

WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING!? :pac:

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