Musical Box Office Bomb With 19% RT Score Is Leaving Netflix Soon

Musical movies have an extremely variable track record when it comes to box office and critical reviews. 2024 was a good year for the movie musical just based on one film alone: Wicked. An adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name, Wicked received rave reviews, and has been considered a frontrunner for Oscar nominations. The film has also done tremendously well at the box office, making over $648 million and counting. This positions the musical as the no. 6 movie of the year at the worldwide box office at the time of writing.

Not all movie musical, unfortunately, have had the same fervent support as Wicked had this year. Even movies adapted from incredibly popular Broadway musicals can flounder, as evidenced by the critically panned box office flop Dear Evan Hansen in 2021, which grossed a mere $19.1 million worldwide. Wicked director Jon M. Chu's own In the Heights also struggled to land at the box office, making just $45.1 million on an estimated $55 million budget. None of these musical have reached such notorious lows as one ill-fated movie musical from 2019.

Cats Is Leaving Netflix In Just A Few Weeks

Cats Was Panned By Critics

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Cats is about to scamper away from Netflix. The 2019 musical is an adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical of the same name, which was already a divisive project. The uncanny CGI of the Cats movie was slammed upon the release of the trailers, gaining notoriety before it even made its way to theaters. As such, Cats got dismally bad reviews, scoring a mere 19% Tomatometer among over 300 critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie also lost money at the box office, grossing $75.5 million against an estimated $95 million budget.

As per Netflix, Cats is soon leaving their platform. Viewers have just a few more weeks to catch the infamous Tom Hooper movie on the popular streaming platform, as it leaves the platform at the end of January. The streaming future for Cats remains unclear as the film will likely be pawing for a new streaming home.

Our Take On Cats Leaving Streaming

Will It Surge In Popularity For A Brief Time?

As the days to watch Cats on Netflix become increasingly few, it will be interesting to see whether the film surges on Netflix. Though I agree with the critics —Cats is horrible — there's something sickly fascinating about just how bad it is. I think it is something that audiences, in retrospect, have recognized about the movie, which could lead to a popularity surge as the movie's time on the platform becomes more limited.

Source: Netflix