"Cats"
Production budget: $100 million
Global box office: $10.9 million
Talk about a musical adaptation that hit all the wrong notes. Burdened with creepy CGI (pardon us, "digital fur technology"), the first trailer for "Cats" went viral on social media for all the wrong reasons when it debuted this summer. It never recovered. The bad buzz, combined with savage reviews, effectively euthanized Tom Hooper's film when Universal opened it in theaters this month. Now, the movie ranks as one of the year's biggest critical and commercial misfires.
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"The Lion King"
Production budget: $260 million
Global box office: $1.6 billion
Can you count the money tonight? A generation of moviegoers who grew up on the story of Simba's rocky journey to assume his place as leader of the Pride Lands was able to take their own children to this CGI re-imagining of Disney's animated classic. That made "The Lion King" an all-ages smash that had its corporate backers at Disney humming "Hakuna Matata" all through the summer.
R u with me lions
https://variety.com/2019/film/box-office/box-office-flops-hits-2019-1203450907/https://twitter.com/variety/status/1208438011425370112 Not when the production + promo budget is sitting at like 200 mill
https://twitter.com/showbiz411/status/1208063855227817984 https://twitter.com/yonceheadlines/status/1207507317199118336 Keep the same funky pit energy yall had when yall were trying to drag the 7th biggest movie of all time last summer.
