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Theatre mogul Andrew Lloyd Webber has urged the U.K. government to follow South Korea’s trace-and-test method so stage shows can reopen amid the coronavirus crisis.

“Battlefield Earth” has been called the worst movie of all time. An overblown, cheap space flick with laughable dialogue and an alien John Travolta, it made $29.3 million on a $73 million budget and, until “Jack and Jill” in 2012, held the most Razzies (“honoring the worst of cinematic under-achievements”). But 20 years later, its screenwriter says there is a new top flop.

Lockdown continues and so does The Shows Must Go On, the Universal/ Andrew Lloyd Webber YouTube channel which has been premiering a musical production each and every Friday evening for the last number of weeks. This week’s offering is one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest, Cats.

Jellicles can and jellicles do sometimes regret being in, it seems.

Judi Dench has admitted to being unhappy about how her character in the much-derided Cats film turned out, saying she looked like a “battered, mangy old cat”.

Katy Perry shared an emotional tribute to her late cat Kitty Purry, after the feline “completed her 9th life” and passed away.

Steve Cash, a YouTube performer famous for his “Talking Kitty Cat” video series, has died at 40.

You think you've seen Hugh Jackman with digital fur technology — because he was made to be hairy in the movies — but, oh! What could have been! Jackman just confirmed that he turned down a role in last year's stupefying, must-see movie musical, .

Dame Judi Dench says she has not read any reviews for the much-derided film Cats.

What once seemed an affront to human and felinekind alike has become an unexpected salvation amid the coronavirus quarantine: is now available to watch from your home, whenever you want, in whatever state you want. Which Seth Rogen did for the first time on Tuesday.

The cat’s out of the bag: Apparently, somewhere, there is a “butthole cut” of “Cats.”

Both Justin Bieber's exotic cat Sushi and lifestyle personality Sandra Lee have been keeping a low profile lately, but together they rocketed back into the headlines this afternoon in a very surprising way.

On Wednesday night, an Instagram-famous cat's apparent endorsement of Bernie Sanders caused a bit of a sensation. "I’m feline this guy," read the caption for a photo of the cat watching Sanders's recent debate performance. In and of itself, that might have served as a perfect aggregate of our times, but the story didn't stop there. A certain portion of the Internet believes that the cat in question, Ms. Fluffle Stilt Skin, secretly belongs to the actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

It takes guts to admit you were wrong — especially when you have been so right, so often.

It should surprise no one that Kate Beckinsale can bust a move. But what about her Persian cat, Clive?

Hollywood movies aren’t just being made by committee these days — they’re being made by their audience.

Like Thor’s computer-generated hammer raining down on his enemies, Hollywood’s Visual Effects Society is speaking out against last night’s Academy Awards telecast for making them the butt of a joke.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Just like the Oscars puts the spotlight on the best of films, the Razzies every year highlights films that made us cringe and scratch our heads asking why. Sweeping the Razzies this year are three films namely Cats, A Madea Family Funeral, and Rambo: Last Blood. All the three films bagged eight nominations in various categories, they all ended up in the Worst Picture category. The nominations were announced just a day before the Oscars by The Golden Raspberry Foundation. 

By Vanessa Papas: For many South Africans, the biggest cost of having a pet is not food or toys, but medical costs. Are you wondering if pet insurance is really worth it? Or, perhaps, you would just like to find out what the fuss about medical cover for your furball is all about. We chat to David Roache from dotsure.co.za – the first and only insurance provider in South Africa to insure cats, dogs and a range of exotic pets – on everything to do with pet insurance.

This could be either the most purr-fect fundraiser ever — or a total cat-astrophe.

“Cats,” the musical movie that bombed at the box office, scratched away at Comcast’s fourth-quarter earnings, even as overall profits soared 26 percent.

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it’s a tale of two kitties.