No, WB Didn’t “Favor” This Looney Tunes Movie Over Coyote vs. Acme—They Abandoned Both. But One Survived.

It would be easy to assume that The Day the Earth Blew Up is the movie Warner Bros. chose to support while Coyote vs. Acme was the one they tossed aside. That narrative would almost make sense—one was buried for a tax write-off, and the other actually made it to theaters. But that’s not the real story.

It’s not an either-or situation, it’s a ‘WB screwed over both, but one got out situation.

The truth is, WB abandoned both movies. They didn’t choose The Day the Earth Blew Up over Coyote vs. Acme—they just happened to sell this one off to Ketchup Entertainment like a piece of scrap they had no use for. If Ketchup hadn’t stepped in to save it, WB wouldn’t have cared whether it ever saw the light of day. This isn’t a case of Warner Bros. picking one Looney Tunes project over another. It’s a case of an independent distributor giving a damn when WB didn’t.

You can still be angry about what happened to Coyote vs. Acme. You can still hate that WB is gutting its animation division and treating finished films like tax loopholes. But here’s what makes The Day the Earth Blew Up different: it got out. And because it got out, we have a rare chance to show WB that selling off Looney Tunes was a mistake.

Warner Bros. doesn’t make a single dime from this movie—they sold it off and walked away.

This isn’t just another nostalgia cash-in. It’s a full-length, hand-drawn, theatrical Looney Tunes feature, something we haven’t seen in decades. And on top of that, it’s weird in the best way—a mix of slapstick, sci-fi horror, and classic comedy, with Daffy and Porky thrown into a surreal alien invasion. Critics are loving it, and audiences who’ve actually seen it are too. But because WB threw it away, Ketchup doesn’t have a marketing budget to let people know what it even is. If you haven’t heard much about it, that’s not the movie’s fault—that’s just the reality of being saved at the last minute by a distributor that doesn’t have billions to spend on ads.

Supporting this movie doesn’t mean you’re “picking” it over Coyote vs. Acme. It just means you’re giving a discarded Looney Tunes movie a chance to prove that WB was wrong to sell it off in the first place. Theaters are where we get to make that statement. Streaming will come later, and people will eventually discover it there—but if this movie succeeds in theaters, it sends a clear message that Looney Tunes still belongs on the big screen.

If you were looking for the fastest way to tell David Zaslav to go screw himself, this is it.