{"id":94784,"date":"2025-07-26T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94784\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:59:08","slug":"coyote-vs-acme-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94784\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote vs. Acme Release Date Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHollywood\u2019s improbable underdog \u201cCoyote vs. Acme<\/a>\u201d has finally landed a global theatrical release date. Star Will Forte announced at the film\u2019s panel at San Diego Comic-Con<\/a> that the live-action\/animation hybrid will premiere on Aug. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d \u2014 about Looney Tunes stalwart Wyle E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation for all its faulty tools in his pursuit of the Road Runner \u2014 was infamously shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> in 2023 after it was completed, so the company could write off its $30 million budget. The movie was greenlit by the previous regime for the streaming service HBO Max, but the team led by WBD\u2019s CEO David Zaslav decided to abandon that strategy and focus on theatrical releases instead. That decision led to the notorious cancellation<\/a> of HBO Max films \u201cBatgirl\u201d and \u201cScoob! Holiday Haunt\u201d in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnlike those movies, however, \u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d was rescued by Ketchup Entertainment, which acquired the film in March 2025, for reportedly around $50 million.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is the panel that you were not supposed to see!\u201d said moderator Paul Scheer at the top of the panel. \u201cThis movie was not supposed to come out!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tScheer then rolled a brief clip from the film, in which Wyle recalls all of the Acme products that failed him in his pursuit of the Road Runner \u2014 intercut with clips from the classic Road Runner animated shorts \u2014\u00a0while Johnny Cash\u2019s rendition of \u201cHurt\u201d played underneath.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Forte came to the stage, the panel was interrupted briefly by a representative from the Acme Corporation (performed by actor P. J. Byrne, who also plays an Acme lawyer in the movie) who \u201cserved\u201d the entirety of Hall H cease and desist papers. \u201cYou do not have permission to share information or footage from this anti-Acme film!\u201d he screamed to a round chorus of boos. \u201cPlease, leave the stage!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe extended bit \u2014 which climaxed with the Acme lawyer bringing a gang of unpaid interns on stage to (unsuccessfully) keep the film\u2019s trailer from debuting \u2014 was the panel\u2019s tongue-in-cheek way of acknowledging the shenanigans that had kept \u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d from theaters without actually naming the corporation responsible.<\/p>\n

\n\tInstead of leaving the stage, Forte and Scheer welcomed director Dave Green, voice actor Eric Bauza\u00a0\u2014 who plays all of the Looney Tunes characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig \u2014 and costar Martha Kelly to the stage. They played an extended clip from the film of Wyle\u2019s first day in court, which does not go well: His lawyer, Kevin Avery (Forte), hasn\u2019t stood inside a courtroom in years, and he\u2019s up against Acme\u2019s formidable attorney Buddy Crane (John Cena). The scene includes several playful nods to Looney Tunes characters, including a knitting mother hen<\/a> on the jury and Playboy Penguin<\/a> working as a courtroom sketch artist carving a bust of Buddy\u2019s chiseled face out of ice. The judge, played by Luis Guzm\u00e1n, even has a cartoon gavel that squeaks.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe panelists said to expect many more cameos like that in the film \u2014 including Bugs and Daffy, of course, but also more obscure ones, like the animated version of actor Peter Lorre who showed up in some classic Looney Tunes shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s improbable underdog \u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d has finally landed a global theatrical release date. Star Will Forte announced…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15661,62525,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-94784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-con","9":"tag-coyote-vs-acme","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114921076428935296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}