Three years after Warner Bros. abruptly canned “Coyote vs. Acme,” the Looney Tunes feature film that was given a new lease on life by Ketchup Entertainment debuted with an estimated $15.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend. For the fifth weekend in a row, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” topped the North American box office. It grossed $22.2 million in U.S.
What do you do when you think your movie will never see the light of day? Have a “funeral screening,” of course. That’s exactly what the team behind “Coyote vs. Acme” did when they feared the live-action-animation hybrid comedy was locked in the Warner Bros. vault for good. Luckily, after WB. shelved the project, Ketchup
If you went back to November 2023 and told “Coyote vs. Acme” director Dave Green that his legal comedy Looney Toons would make its debut at San Diego Comic-Con, he probably wouldn’t believe it. Of course, that’s largely because that’s when Green learned that Warner Bros. Discovery had filed the film as a tax write-off.