Overview
- Ketchup Entertainment released the first full trailer Wednesday, April 22, confirming a worldwide theatrical opening on August 28, 2026.
- The trailer pointedly mocks Warner Bros., zooming into a WB card that reads the studio is a “wholly owned subsidiary of the ACME Corporation” and ending with a gag about releasing the film for “accounting purposes only.”
- The live-action and animation hybrid follows Wile E. Coyote suing ACME, with Will Forte as his lawyer, John Cena as ACME’s counsel, Dave Green directing, and a screenplay by Samy Burch from a story developed with James Gunn and Jeremy Slater.
- The finished film was removed from WB’s slate in April 2022 and shelved in November 2023 for a roughly $30 million tax write-off before Ketchup acquired worldwide rights in March 2025 for about $50 million.
- The trailer showcases Looney Tunes favorites including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Porky Pig and others, and its corporate-satire pitch doubles as a case study in how backlash and a resale can bring a written-off movie back to theaters.