The critically derided live action Cats film will be updated with "improved visual effects" while already in cinemas, in a highly unusual move.
The Hollywood Reporter sighted a memo it said had been sent to thousands of theatres on Friday, the day the film opened across the US.
The memo informed theatres they would be receiving a new, improved version of Cats by Tuesday and asked them to replace the current print as soon as possible, the US industry publication reported.
It is extremely rare for a film to be altered once it is already in wide release.
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Pop star Taylor Swift in a still from Cats. Theatres will be sent an updated version of the film after it was savaged by critics.
Critics have got their claws out for Cats, which currently holds an 18 per cent "rotten" rating on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes.
On the red carpet at the film's world premiere on Monday night, director Tom Hooper, who won an Oscar for The King's Speech, told reporters he had only finished the film's (then) final edit at 8am the previous morning and had "put the finishing touches on" it that day.
While no-one has yet seen the updated print, near-universal critical derision has been heaped on its use of CGI, with Washington Post critic Michael O'Sullivan saying the cats have "oddly unsettling human breasts and faces that make them look like the winner of a Halloween costume contest as the Cowardly Lion".
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Idris Elba as Macavity, left, and Francesca Hayward in Cats. The film has been derided for its CGI effects, among other things.
There are even suggestions that despite Hooper's down-to-the-wire efforts, the first print was incomplete, with Los Angeles Times reporter Jenelle Riley pointing out that towards the end of the film, a shot of Judi Dench as Old Deuteronomy showed her un-CGI'd hand, complete with wedding ring.
Negative reviews have also focused on the film's plot and uneven tone.
It was labelled "both a horror and an endurance test" by Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang.
"With its grotesque design choices and busy, metronomic editing, Cats is as uneasy on the eyes as a Hollywood spectacle can be, tumbling into an uncanny valley between mangy realism and dystopian artifice," Chang wrote.
And at the Boston Globe, Ty Burr wrote: "My eyes are burning. Oh God, my eyes."
Based on the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, Cats had a production budget over over US$100 million (NZ$151 million).
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Judy Dench as Old Deuteronomy in Cats.
Its ensemble cast includes Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, and Idris Elba as well as Dench.
Cats opens in New Zealand on Boxing Day.
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