Discarded by Warner Bros., ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Outearns Major Summer Releases
Ketchup Entertainment revived the $30 million Looney Tunes hybrid after Warner Bros. shelved it, and the film was later released following a rights sale.
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‘Coyote vs. Acme’ prompts question why Warner Bros. ever scrapped it
By Luke Thomas, September 8, 2026 There’s a level of irony to the existence of “Coyote vs. Acme,” the animation live-action hybrid about a cartoon coyote suing a megacorporation driven solely by profit was initially shelved by its studio for a $30 million tax write-off back in November of 2023. Luckily, the story of “Coyote
From ‘Scream 7’ to ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ We’re Living in the Age of the Protest Ticket
You’ve heard of a boycott. But what about a b-b-b-buycott? That’s more or less the grassroots campaign that coalesced around “Coyote vs. Acme,” director Dave Green’s live-action/animation hybrid, which finally hit U.S. theaters on August 28 — almost three years after Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill it in a corporate cost-cutting initiative. For the unfamiliar, Wile E. Coyote is among pop culture’s great victims of both spontaneous combustio…
At the global level, it is already projected to raise between $100 million and $110 million
The movie Warner wanted to bury in a drawer already triumphs at the box office without reaching all the world markets and exposes the decision.
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