“Cats” is Headed For a Major Box Office Loss

Taylor Swift in "Cats"

Did Cats have any chance at the box office with all that cat hair on people freaking everyone out?

Since the very beginning the feature adaptation of the musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber upended the internet with its creepy fur technology, which turned the film’s stellar cast into felines. 

And it looks like there was no getting over that. Multiple outlets report that Cats is officially bombing at the box office, and is bound to lose anywhere between $70-$100 million according to rival studio executives and based off a production cost of $90 million net. 

The film opened to a $6.5 million domestic debut and it never gained any traction in the box office. 

The film’s stars — Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, James Corden, and Idris Elba transformed into a tribe of cats called Jellicles, who compete to determine who will receive a new life.