Paramount's Musical Film Cats set to open in Christmas 2016

Posted on September 15th, 2014

Paramount's Musical Film Cats set to open in Christmas 2016
Robert Fairchild, Mette Towley, Jennifer Hudson and Ian McKellen will be playing in this upcoming musical movie based off of Andrew Lloyd Webber's timeless masterpiece.

After years of waiting, Paramount Pictures had finally set a release date of its upcoming musical, ''Cats. ''Leading the cast will be Robert Fairchild, Mette Towley, Jennifer Hudson and Ian McKellen.

The studio announced a 2016 Christmas Day opening -- a strategy that seemed to have worked well for Disney's latest musical venture, ''Into The Woods. Cats ''will follow a tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

More casting is going to be announced soon, and studios ahead are aiming to begin filming in Leavensden Studios in Hertfordshire United Kingdom by Summer 2015.