Coyote vs. Acme actor today at San Diego Comic-Con said the global release date for the Warner Bros. abandoned-Ketchup Entertainment saved hybrid animation movie is Aug. 28, 2026. And that’s a global release.
“This movie wasn’t supposed to come out,” said the panel’s moderator Paul Scheer about the pic which follows Wile E. Coyote’s legal crusade against Acme corporation after suffering way too many damages.
“I heard Warner Bros wouldn’t release the film — I’ve never heard of Warner Bros!” the comedic actor and multihyphenate joked, “This is really an Acme decision and I’m saying that for legal purposes.”
“Ketchup is single-handedly saving the Looney Tunes,” said Scheer, “Mr. Ketchup, we salute you.”
Warner Bros initially took the $70M movie off the theatrical schedule in a cost-saving move, reporting that it was taking a tax writeoff. However, Ketchup Entertainment, as Deadline first told, wound up taking worldwide rights to the film in what was a $50M deal. Ketchup also released another Warner Bros’ abandoned Looney Tunes movie, The Day the Earth Blew Up which made $8.8M domestic, $15.1M worldwide. Forte emphasized to the room that it as the fans who saved the movie.
P.J. Byrne (as his ACME attorney character Bill Pellicano) hysterically entered Hall H yelling that he has “cease and desist” papers as the movie is anti-ACME. Scheer urged the Hall H crowd to shoo him away. He kept calling Forte, “Fart-e”.
Eric Bauza, who is the voice of Bugs Bunny, spoke in character saying that the movie was made “without the use of A.I. and basketball players” in response to Scheer’s question about how the movie is different from Space Jam.
Also on today’s panel was director Dave Green, and actress Martha Kelly.
The first clip shows Coyote, distressed, going through his failed plans to capture Road Runner, all of which involved ACME. Set to Johnny Cash’s tune “Hurt”, Coyote catches the legal TV commercial for Forte’s personal injury attorney character, who pitches those viewers who may have suffered ACME damages (“Have you ever pulled the ripcord to your parachute and only silverware fell out?”).
The second piece of footage shown has Forte’s lawyer guy in court with Coyote versing ACME’s team of Pellicano and John Cena’s bigshot attorney character Buddy Crane. Coyote, who doesn’t speak, urges Forte to show the court a faulty rocket roller skate. Forte turns it on and the skate blasts off around the court room, blowing fire in Coyote’s face and setting the judge, played by Luis Guzman.
A trailer for the pic was also dropped in the room.
Green said he got the job at the end of 2019, and spent 2020 developing the script with Oscar nominated Samy Burch based on a 1990 New Yorker humor piece. All in, it was a six year process.
A drop-dead funny question from a fan who asked Forte, “What does it feel like to join the pantheon of lawyers that includes Jack McCoy and Atticus Finch?”
Answered Forte, “It’s nice look down from the perch at their performances.”
Byrne’s Pellicano returned to the stage, prompting boos from the room, and stalling the play of the trailer. “We took the projector out!” said Pellicano.
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