{"id":13093,"date":"2024-02-09T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2024-03-19T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:57:55","slug":"coyote-vs-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/02\/09\/coyote-vs-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote vs. Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wrap<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Final Days of \u2018Coyote vs. Acme\u2019: Offers, Rejections and a Roadrunner Race Against Time | Exclusive<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Warner was seeking $75 \u2013 $80 million but rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon and Paramount, insiders tell TheWrap<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/author\/drew-taylor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drew Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/coyote-vs-acme-image.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"coyote-vs-acme-image\" style=\"width:823px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An exclusive image from &#8220;Coyote vs. Acme&#8221; (Warner Bros.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In early January,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thewrap.com\/tag\/coyote-vs-acme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;producer Chris DeFaria got a startling phone call from a Warner Bros. executive. \u201cThey just want to get this behind them,\u201d the executive told DeFaria. \u201cThey want to close the books.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the words of the Roadrunner:&nbsp;<em>Meep<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movie, a live-action\/animated hybrid that stars Will Forte and the \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d gang, had been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/coyote-vs-acme-movie-shelved-warner-bros-john-cena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earmarked for demolition<\/a>&nbsp;on Nov. 9. But following the announcement that the movie would be canceled, a firestorm of outrage and indignation erupted. It was heightened by a friends-and-family screening that had already been planned before the cancellation announcement was made. The screening brought more goodwill and an even louder public outcry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat was so exciting was that it felt like the film captured the voice of the Looney Tunes that we love in a way none of the other feature versions have ever done,\u201d Paul Scheer, who was at that screening, told TheWrap. (The last movie to feature the characters, 2021\u2019s \u201cSpace Jam: A New Legacy,\u201d was pilloried by critics and lost money.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Wrap<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wrap The Final Days of \u2018Coyote vs. Acme\u2019: Offers, Rejections and a Roadrunner Race Against Time | Exclusive Warner was seeking $75 \u2013 $80 million but rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon and Paramount, insiders tell TheWrap by Drew Taylor In early January,&nbsp;\u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d&nbsp;producer Chris DeFaria got a startling phone call from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}