Looney tunes return to the big screen in new animated film!

[gaastra]

Day the earth blew up planned hbo max film will now head to theatres. Photo confirms daffy, porky and a new look for petunia.

Lets hope zaslab does not kill this one for tax write offs.


https://variety.com/2023/film/global/lo ... 235769149/

[Ben]

""The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” is the first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie created for a movie theater audience".

Er…what!?

So, "fully animated" discounts Jam and Action, I suppose, but there were all the late 70s-early 80s features, all of which were fully animated *and* made for movie theatre audiences.

Okay, they mean "original" or "all-new", so they should say so. As is, it just sounds and looks like TV-level animation, focusing on Daffy and Porky mainly, so not really even a full deck of Looney characters.

Naturally, it’s a strong sign of some kind of quality if it gets a kick from streaming to cinemas, but then distributors are getting so starved for content that they might just start trying to "upgrade" any and all just to try a squeeze a buck before they end up on the streamers anyway…

[EricJ]

Also, even just from the art style, and recognition of Petunia's existence, this has the look of coming from those freakish Max cartoons, with the passive-hostile animator-insider grudge against 30's-40's LT shorts, animation style and tropes.

I thought they cancelled those...

[Sultillort]

Also, even just from the art style, and recognition of Petunia's existence, this has the look of coming from those freakish Max cartoons, with the passive-hostile animator-insider grudge against 30's-40's LT shorts, animation style and tropes.
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I thought they cancelled those...

Actually, they didn't cancel, right?

[gaastra]

This was announced last year as an hbo max film but is now heading to theatres.


https://www.thewrap.com/looney-tunes-th ... w-up-clip/

Clip from a year ago--



As for first looney tunes film if you count space jam films and looney tunes films it's the 10th looney tunes film in theatres!

[gaastra]

Dave gives more info and history.

[Daniel]

Actually, they didn't cancel, right?

That is correct. I even said as much in the past:

The series was always intended to have a set amount.

[Ben]

Well…I didn’t need that crack joke.

[gaastra]

Movie poster with them again confirming this is a big screen movie!

https://twitter.com/RegularTweetsUK/sta ... 0376791400

[Ben]

I still find it incredulous that this is getting a big screen release and the Coyote/ACME movie languishes…

[gaastra]

That's simple. WB isn't releasing it.

WB isn't distributing it. A couple months ago GFM Animation, along with WB Animation, went to AFM to shop the movie to distributors.

Why WBD doesn't want to distribute a Looney Tunes movie is beyond me but hey, look at what's happening with Coyote VS Acme

Pretty much remember that kung fu cat movie nick released? The studio that released that has paid wb to release this movie.

So wb sold it off like coyote. WB really hates animation huh?

[Ben]

They just donut know how to handle them.

[Daniel]

Cool poster. No big name celeb for the villain!? Gasp!

[EricJ]

Peter MacNichol, star of Dragonslayer, Bean: the Movie, and Ghostbusters II!

[gaastra]

Looney tunes day the earth blew up confirmed for the big screen in fall. Another studio is paying for its release so no tax cuts!

https://www.awn.com/news/day-earth-blew ... d-theaters

Eric Bauza (Looney Tunes Cartoons) voices Porky and Daffy alongside Candi Milo (Tiny Toons Looniversity) as Petunia Pig and Peter MacNicol (Numb3rs) as the alien Invader. Browngardt executive produces for Warner Bros. Animation, while Alex Kirwan (Looney Tunes Cartoons) acts as supervising producer.