Warner Bros. Discovery initially shelved Coyote vs. Acme in November 2023 to obtain a tax write-off, but later reversed its decision and allowed the filmmakers to seek other distributors following public backlash. After several unsuccessful negotiations with various distributors, Ketchup Entertainment acquired the rights in March 2025 after previously doing so with Warner Bros. Animation's The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. The film is set to be released sometime in 2026.
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It's so wild to me that shelving a fully complete movie can somehow be better to a studio than simply releasing it. I'm glad that they changed their minds.
It's hollywood accounting at it's finest. They make the film cost a fortune to produce, because they use department billing to turn $1 of cost into $40 of expenses. Then they burn it to the ground and say they realized $250M of losses when it really only cost $20M to produce. And don't forget that a huge amount of the cost was just paying themselves enormous salaries to figure out how to make it a net loss for the company from a structured tax perspective.
I really wish the only way they could get a tax write off would be to release it into the public domain.
wait is this happening after all?
Me too, coyote, me too
I’m intrigued by the fat racist golfing chicken looking like a representative.
Is every kids movie these days legally required to have that exact same car scene in it
Probably to leave time for a marketing campaign.
Source?
Comic-Con? There’s a Coyote v Acme panel happening right now.
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It's so wild to me that shelving a fully complete movie can somehow be better to a studio than simply releasing it. I'm glad that they changed their minds.
It's hollywood accounting at it's finest. They make the film cost a fortune to produce, because they use department billing to turn $1 of cost into $40 of expenses. Then they burn it to the ground and say they realized $250M of losses when it really only cost $20M to produce. And don't forget that a huge amount of the cost was just paying themselves enormous salaries to figure out how to make it a net loss for the company from a structured tax perspective.
I really wish the only way they could get a tax write off would be to release it into the public domain.