looneytunes
It’s looking increasingly likely that we will never see Coyote vs. Acme, a completed Looney Tunes live-action/animated hybrid about Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation after years of unsuccessfully using their products to capture the Road Runner. Warner Bros. Discovery made the film and then shelved it entirely — reportedly they may delete the film entirely and permanently! — because they decided it was worth more that was a tax write-off, than it could potentially make in theaters. But one of the film’s stars, Will Forte, has seen the movie. And he says that it is “magnificent.” In a he...
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It hasn’t been the best couple years for Looney Tunes fans. The last big-screen film featuring the venerable cartoon characters was Space Jam: A New Legacy which was … horrible. The so-called Looney Tunes Cartoons series of modern shorts on HBO Max (and later just Max) were good, but they concluded production last year. And what was supposed to be the next movie for the brand, Coyote vs. Acme, has been shelved, perhaps forever, and according to recent reports is in danger of being permanently deleted so Warner Bros. Discovery can take a tax write-off on the project. Plus there was also a minor...
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When word first emerged late last year that Warner Bros. was considering permanently shelving their Coyote vs. Acmeit seemed like another example of the company’s recent policy of taking tax write-downs on films they believed would be losers at the box office. In 2022, they performed a similar accounting trick with a live-action Batgirl film. It was permanently shelved, never to be seen, and Warner Bros. Discovery wrote off the budget. But Coyote vs. Acme looked like it could have a happier ending. The movie, supposedly, was really good. (Batgirl, at least by some public accounts, was not.) Pe...
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