A closer look
Universal Pictures actually had to send an urgent digital patch to theaters across the world to update the infamously disastrous 2019 musical film "Cats" because the original CGI was so uncomfortably horrifying. Shortly after the premiere, internet rumors exploded regarding a mythical "butthole cut" of the movie, forcing the visual effects team to come forward and admit that their grueling, rushed rendering process had accidentally resulted in some of the feline-human hybrids having vaguely visible, highly inappropriate anatomy. The studio scrambled to release a completely unprecedented patch for a theatrical movie, treating a multimillion-dollar Hollywood blockbuster like a buggy beta release of a cheap video game. Imagine being an overworked, exhausted VFX artist surviving on energy drinks, only to get an emergency memo from your corporate overlords demanding you go back into the computer to painstakingly smooth over the digital backsides of Judi Dench and James Corden to save everyone's sanity






