Coyote vs Acme, a film that was shelved by Warner Bros to obtain a tax write-off in 2023, has been saved by Ketchup Entertainment and is now set to release in 2026.
The Looney Tunes film, starring Will Forte and John Cena, was completed in 2023 and was set to release in July of that year when Warner Bros decided against doing it to claim a tax write-off, regardless of raving reviews from initial screenings and the interesting and fun premise.
The unprecedented move sparked online outrage with the hashtags #ReleaseCoyoteVsAcme and #SaveCoyoteVsAcme trending on multiple platforms in 2023 and 2024, with many industry figures chiming in to demand its release over the past two years.
Most assumed that it would never see the light of day until Ketchup Entertainment, the independant production company behind the recent "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" managed to acquire the film from Warner Bros for around $50 million on March 31 and announced immediately that the film would have a worldwide theatrical release in 2026.
The film's premise follows a lawsuit brought up by Wile E. Coyote against ACME, the fictional company behind all the tools he used that backfired against him in his pursuit of the Road Runner - a comedic legal drama in hybrid live-action animation, much like Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
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