New Cats musical cost $300 million

They could have made one and a half MCU movies for that!

There was a time when musicals were considered educational for some reason. Maybe they thought they were expanding the limits of your attention span by making you sit through three solid hours of that crap.  I got dragged off to see Oliver! There was The Sound of Music, of course, but I only remember seeing that on TV.

But now Cats is a motion picture. Has actors with computer generated fur. And word is that the thing cost just under $300 million.

I don't know if this formula still applies when you get into absurdly expensive movies, but in general, they have to gross two and a half times their budget just to break even. In theory, this thing will have to gross $750 million or it will lose money. Nothing on Broadway is THAT popular.

What is it about, anyway? Does it have a plot of any kind?

It's something comic book fans can wave in your face next time anyone brings up the vast sums thrown away on idiotic superhero movies. They should start working out carefully crafted arguments now.

For those making the case against comic book movies, when their fans bring up Cats, just say, "That's whataboutism!"