The Looney Tunes film won’t be rotting away in David Zaslav’s basement for the next 50 years.Warner Bros.Discovery has sold the rights to the movie to Ketchup Entertainment, the same company that just released.Ketchup ponied up around $50 million for the film and it’ll hit theaters in 2026, according to reporting by .
Warner Bros.funded the creation of the movie but then shelved it for a tax write-off.You know the drill.
It’s pretty much the same thing it did with the movie and .Nobody loves scrapping finished projects more than WB.This one, at least, has a happy ending.always seemed like a pretty nifty concept.
It stars Will Forte and John Cena and follows Wile E.Coyote as he sues notorious manufacturer Acme after he repeatedly fails to catch his arch-nemesis, the roadrunner.Directing duties fell to Dave Green, who made .
It was produced by Chris deFaria and James Gunn, with a screenplay by scribe Samy Burch.This hasn’t stopped Warner Bros.Discovery from feverishly hitting the “delete” key.It just pulled all of the original Looney Tunes shorts from the streaming platform Max.
This happened just as was hitting theaters.To be fair, that film didn’t exactly blow up the box office.