The first advance of The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, a fully animated Looney Tunes movie that will soon be released in theaters.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is a spin-off of Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons series of shorts. The film will focus on three popular Looney Tunes characters: Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Petunia Pig.
The film focuses on the trio as they discover secret plans for an alien invasion of Earth, and must save the planet from aliens mind-controlling humans.
The film had a premiere at Annecy, one of the main animation festivals in the world, and received very positive comments.. “It turns out that ‘Day’ is funnier than any movie the studio has released since ‘The Lego Movie 2’ and a rare chance to see Porky and Daffy doing something other than playing basketball or moving mercenaries,” Variety says in a review. .
For many, this Looney Tunes movie is the way to get over the Coyote vs. Coyote fiasco. Acme from a few months ago.
What happened to Coyote vs. Acme?
Coyote vs. Acme was an officially announced film that focused on the character of Wile E. Coyotewho eventually sues Acme for its defective products, with the company’s failed weapons being a running gag in the Coyote and the Roadrunner cartoons.
The film was conceived as a hybrid of live action and animation, and although test screenings led to the film receiving incredibly positive reviews, Warner Bros. Discovery shelved it for tax reasons.
Why doesn’t Warner want Coyote Vs. Acme released?
Why Warner Bros. is so opposed to the film’s release remains a mystery. The fact that the film was made by previous leadership at the studio appears to be a factor.
Let us remember the precedent of Warner Bros. when it shelved another high-profile film: Batgirl, which cost $90 million to produce. This movie supposedly had terrible reviews, but that’s not the case with Coyote vs Acme.
The only public explanation Warner has given for abandoning the project is the studio’s “change in global strategy to focus on theatrical releases.” But one of the studios interested in buying the film, Paramount, included a theater component in its purchase offer, so the explanation doesn’t add up.
