Signs of trouble for CatsMovie were there very early on
Director Tom Hooper's team tinkered with "improved" VFX until the last minute and enlisted 'Lion King' veterans to work on "refining'"what became a $100 million bomb.opened in theaters domestically, Universal made an unprecedented decision to send exhibitors a new version of the film with "some improved visual effects."
By then, however, it was too late. Tom Hooper's star-studded musical bombed amid a sea of dreadful reviews, earning at press time just $40.5 million globally and facing a loss of $50 million to $75 million against a budget of roughly $100 million before marketing. Signs of trouble were there early on. Production began in December 2018 and wrapped in April. That's a tight postproduction schedule for a film featuring extensive and complex visual effects and a full cast rendered as performance capture-based, digital, fur-covered humanoid felines who perform dance moves in environments that combine live-action and digital sets.The Hollywood Reporter
that there was some redesign work at this point, including on James Corden's Bustopher Jones, who was given a more "comedic" look with a bigger mustache and longer hair. In the time leading to the release, sources say VFX work was behind schedule, the sound mix was starting late — and Hooper himself admitted that the movie was finished less than 48 hours before its London premiere.
Meanwhile, Hooper, described as a very exacting director, kept adjusting the effects. "There were no content changes, I don't think," one source tells, explaining that the additional week of work was about "refining, mostly small things. … refining the amount of the actor's performance you might see, refining lighting, refining integration." This was the new version Universal sent to theaters.
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