10 Stunning Facts About 2019’s Biggest Movies

10. A New Version Of Cats Was Released After Less Than A Week In Cinemas

Right now, CGI plays a bigger role than ever in Hollywood, and can make or break any big movie that utilises it. Needless to say, 2019 saw some mixed results. Avengers: Endgame was a special effects triumph, as was, for the most part, the Irishman (ignoring the tough to watch fight outside the grocery store). Cats, on the other hand, was not.

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Director Tom Hooper's incredibly ambitious project looked to turn Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, and more into cats, while keeping their human faces intact. It's a strange concept, no doubt, but was not helped by the poor, and too often lazy CGI.

Though it was intentional to keep each cast member's individual look, it was surely not intentional to leave both Rebel Wilson and Judy Dench's human hands in the final product. So bad was the result that after less than one week in cinemas, the studio reportedly resorted to releasing a new, updated and edited version of the movie fixing the human hands mistake.

The fact that Universal allowed such a shoddy product into the world is baffling, even more so than admitting it wasn't good enough after just a couple of days.

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