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Geoffrey Johnson, whose Johnson-Liff Casting was behind the roles for Cats, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s three longest-running shows, died Friday, Nov. 26. He was 91 and passed from respiratory failure at Henry J. Carter Hospital in New York. Johnson’s log career saw him appear on Broadway as…

The movie version of Cats may have been released last year, but it is still very much present in our lives. In a recent interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of the original musical, he shared the sentiment of critics when it came to the big-screen adaptation. In other words, he thought the movie had some…

Andrew Lloyd Webber has told the Donald Trump campaign to scrub his “Memory,” joining a growing list of musical artists — from Neil Young to the Rolling Stones — who object to the playing of their songs at Trump rallies. “Excellent news!!,” tweeted actress Betty Buckley, who played the “Memory”-singing role of…

Deadline's annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year's most profitable films. For a third year in a row, we decided to look at the ones that amounted to a big swing and a miss. Here are the movies our experts said posted the worst losses of 2019. THE FILM X-Men: Dark Phoenix 20th Century…

With all that is going on in the world the winners of the Razzies, aka the Golden Raspberry Awards, would fall under the category of most trivial, but sometimes in the face of adversity it might be good to remind ourselves there is still a light side to take our minds off far more serious things. As a result of the…

The Visual Effects Society is hissing back at the Academy Awards, a day after Cats-costumed presenters James Corden and Rebel Wilson made an impurrtinent remark about the film’s widely panned VFX. Before reading the nominees for Best Visual Effects, the duo said (trading lines), “As castmembers of the motion picture Ca…

The Razzie nominations are out and Cats, A Madea Family Funeral, and Rambo: Last Blood cleaned up. The Golden Raspberry Foundation announced its picks for 2019's worst achievements in film, a day before the Academy Awards honor the industry’s best. Cats, which the Razzie folks described as a “widely derided feline…

The rituals of awards season are ideal for surrounding hits with glitz, but some big-budget movies with mixed reviews can get lost in the smoke and mirrors. Consider the case of three of history's priciest creature features — Dolittle, Underwater and Cats — all opening quietly amidst Oscar distractions, and leaving…

EXCLUSIVE: No amount of star power from Taylor Swift, James Corden, Idris Elba, Jason Derulo, etc., nor the direction of Oscar-winner Tom Hooper, could save Cats at the global box office. Our finance sources informed us over this weekend that the Universal/Amblin/Working Title feature adaptation of the near $4…

Evan Rachel Wood had her claws out after seeing Cats. Wood unleashed two spitting and hissing posts on Twitter and Instagram on Christmas night on the musical, which has many critics and movie goers choking up a hairball of outrage. Wood, the star of HBO’s Westworld and the voice of Anna and Elsa’s mother in Frozen 2…

UPDATE DEC 26 AM writethru following Christmas Night post: As expected Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker posted the second-best Christmas Day ever at the domestic B.O. with $32M, behind 2015’s holiday record, Force Awakens, which made $49.3M. Industry estimates last night thought it could go as high…

James Corden says he still hasn’t seen Cats, but he’s heard a thing or two about his new movie and it’s hair-raising. The British comedian made the admission Monday in a BBC Radio 2 interview, according to the UK’s Independent. "I haven't seen it, but I've heard it's terrible," Corden told host Zoe Ball. "I'll catch…