#warner bros.

[violet-periwinkle]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

THEY RELEASED THE COYOTE VS ACME TRAILER !!!!!

WE WON !!!

[demifiendrsa]

Warner Bros has completed the sale for their previously shelved Coyote vs. Acme movie.

Ketchup Entertainment today confirmed their completed deal for worldwide rights to the live-action/animated hybrid film that brings Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote to the big screen. The deal was pegged in the $50M range and the film is expected to get a theatrical release in 2026.

Gareth West, CEO of Ketchup Entertainment, said today: “We’re thrilled to have made a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring this film to audiences worldwide. Coyote Vs Acme is a perfect blend of nostalgia and modern storytelling, capturing the essence of the beloved Looney Tunes characters while introducing them to a new generation. We believe it will resonate with both longtime fans and newcomers alike.”

[beeeclops]

New images from the upcoming COYOTE VS. ACME movie, distributed by Ketchup Entertainment.

In theatres August 28th, 2026!

[arcadebroke]

[skullislandproductions]

Bugs Bunny toasting in the New Year, hopping…er..hoping, 2026 is the best ever!

[prokopetz]

This is an absolutely crazy ask to send cause it's not in your wheelhouse at all EXCEPT that I've seen you post about public domain a lot before, but: I was thinking about how in the Looney tunes shows they congregate old cartoons they always use the same ones (bugs bunny and Tweety show, bugs and daffy show), and I have to imagine it's because of obscure and confusing rights on who can actually say they own many of the older shorts, especially the ones that don't star bugs, daffy, or any of the other "main cast". I was wondering if you knew how to find a list attempting to attribute many of these older loony tunes cartoons that are equivalent to abandonware at this point?

The first thing that's important to understand is that, legally, "abandonware" isn't a real thing. It's an artefact of the fact that it's legitimately unclear who actually owns many older video games whose publishers are now defunct, and nobody with money cares enough to press the issue. In practice, this will never be the case with Looney Tunes material – Warner Bros. is always going to claim to be the legitimate rights-holder, no matter how murky the situation is on paper, and you definitely don't have the wherewithal to argue the point.

Now, with respect to the Looney Tunes in particular, there's a potential edge case in that copyright used to require periodic renewal, instead of automatically persisting for the maximum statutory duration, so any Looney Tunes shorts published prior to 1964, the year the renewal requirement was abolished, could potentially be in the public domain due to somebody failing to file the renewal paperwork. However, again, Warner Bros. will always claim they did in fact file for renewal, and do you have a deep enough legal budget to prove they're lying?

The upshot is that the only Looney Tunes material you can safely treat as truly in the public domain are a. those published before 1964 for which someone with money to burn has already gone to the legal trouble of proving that no copyright renewal exists; and b. those published before 1930, as – barring vanishingly few exceptions – there is no jurisdiction in which the copyright duration on works for hire exceeds 95 years from the date of publication.*

Wikipedia has a convenient list indexed by year. As outlined here, all Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts published in 1929–1931 are in the public domain – those from 1929 because they're outside the 95-year cutoff, and those from 1930–1931 because it's been proven that no copyright renewals exist for any of them. A limited number of Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short films from 1932 and later are also in the public domain due to provable failure to renew their copyrights; the above-linked page will note when this is the case.

* Standalone sound recordings in the United States are one of those exceptions, which I'm not even going to get into right now, because it's a deeply stupid situation. That's not relevant here, though.

[waggtoon]

It only felt natural to celebrate Easter by remaking my old tribute (from 2011, the one on the bottom) to the 1947 Bugs Bunny classic "Easter Yeggs".

Trying to replicate Robert McKimson's art style was difficult for me, as I tend to lean more towards the more flexible rubber anatomy of Bob Clampett and Tex Avery. Robert McKimson's designs (at least during his directorial period) were a tad more grounded and humanlike, though certainly no less capable of exaggerated acting. The man is the lesser sung of the main Looney Tunes directors, but there's no denying he helmed some hilarious cartoons, with "Easter Yeggs" arguably being the best example.

Happy Easter everyone. Enjoy your technicolor hen fruit and

"Remember Doc, keep smiling."