Posted: 12/31/19 at 8:36am
Kad said: "Musical movies have been doing pretty well in the last ten years. One flop won't shelve projects.
...it'll just shelve Hooper's career, and it should."
Yes, please.
Posted: 12/31/19 at 11:17am
Every studio loves/prays for a good flop, it helps them greatly with their tax rebates at the end of the year. All losses are reclaimed and how the hell can they know how much it is going to lose before tv, streaming and home media sales. This is all bollocks x
Posted: 12/31/19 at 11:21am
Posted: 12/31/19 at 11:26am
Mr Roxy said: "Hard to beat Heavens Gate.
It took down an entire studio. United Artists went down the toilet because of it .It also took down the career of wonder boy director Michael Cimino"
UA was pretty much dead already though at the time and the tax system was totally different back then.
Posted: 12/31/19 at 1:20pm
LES MISERABLES (2012)
Budget: $61,000,000
Opening weekend: $27,281,735
Gross (US & Canada): $148,809,770
Gross (World): $441,809,770
Posted: 12/31/19 at 1:24pm
Just curious - what would you have done differently with a Cats movie? And as someone said, don't cry for the movie studios. They manage to "lose" money even with mega hits.
Posted: 12/31/19 at 1:34pm
rosheider said: "Just curious - what would you have done differently with a Cats movie? And as someone said, don't cry for the movie studios. They manage to "lose" money even with mega hits."
I wouldn't have spent all that money on CGI effects. I would have pulled the film from the schedule when it was apparent that the expensive CGI wasn't going to be done in time for a premiere. I would have advertised it as the film version of "one of the biggest musical hits of all time" and "the worldwide phenomenon".
Posted: 12/31/19 at 2:03pm
MichelleCraig said: "LES MISERABLES (2012)
Budget: $61,000,000
Opening weekend: $27,281,735
Gross (US & Canada): $148,809,770
Gross (World): $441,809,770"
More importantly
The Kings Speech
Budget - 15 million
Worldwide Gross - 414 million
That kind of gross profit result will get you a lot of goodwill in Hollywood.
Posted: 12/31/19 at 7:55pm
Mr Roxy said: "Hard to beat Heavens Gate.
It took down an entire studio. United Artists went down the toilet because of it .It also took down the career of wonder boy director Michael Cimino"
A few years later, the comedy "Ishtar" also did incredibly bad, despite it's huge investment and top-notch cast. (Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty).
Posted: 12/31/19 at 10:13pm
SO we had nothing to do tonight and we went to a showing. It was only in the VIP size theatre ( the ticket taker said they tried to remove it but "they" wouldn't let them). It only has like 30 seats but 25 of them were full ( and yes we were all laughing and moaning out loud). I wonder if this won't get a bit of a 2nd wind as a "so bad it's good" cult like ShowGirls. cost 45 million box office 20 million(approx) then as it developed a rep- $100 million in home video sales/rentals. SO it flopped till it didn't. I know I'd buy a copy just to laugh and have Judy Dench's Teletubby Sun smile on me.
Posted: 12/31/19 at 11:26pm
Posted: 1/1/20 at 12:22am
But it’s also not a good show to begin with. But it didn't deserve this treatment.
Seriously? Jenny AnyDots unzipping her skin?(x2) Ian Mckellen lapping from a CG plate? The FEET! sometimes bare human feet sometimes feet coloured to costume sometimes wearing sneakers and of COURSE wearing tap shoes! and the Macavity plot?We were so larffing!
a crapton of Jennifer Hudson’s leaking snot. Yes whut the H is Hooper's fascination w snot?
Posted: 1/1/20 at 7:09pm
Jordan Catalano said: "But it’s “Cats”. I’m really confused as to what people who were shocked at it being bad were expecting - some reinterpretation that transformed it into a cohesive masterpiece?"
Cockroaches with human faces. I didn't even see the movie and yet that dance sequence will haunt my nightmares.
Posted: 1/2/20 at 5:25am
Posted: 1/2/20 at 5:26am
double post
Updated On: 1/2/20 at 05:26 AM
Posted: 1/2/20 at 10:13am
Cats the Movie needed the same kind of re-working that the genius Milos Forman did with Hair the Movie. Hair the stage show is an entirely different, brilliant beast, but Forman knew he had to adapt it for film.
