Discarded by Warner Bros., ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Outearns Major Summer Releases

From ‘Scream 7’ to ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ We’re Living in the Age of the Protest Ticket

You’ve heard of a boycott. But what about a b-b-b-buycott? That’s more or less the grassroots campaign that coalesced around “Coyote vs. Acme,” director Dave Green’s live-action/animation hybrid, which finally hit U.S. theaters on August 28 — almost three years after Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill it in a corporate cost-cutting initiative. For the unfamiliar, Wile E. Coyote is among pop culture’s great victims of both spontaneous combustio…

Discarded by Warner Bros., ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Outearns Major Summer Releases

Coyote vs. Acme's box office success has proven that Warner Bros. was wrong to leave the project to die.

Coyote Vs. Acme’s Box Office Officially Puts Warner Bros. To Shame

Coyote vs. Acme's box office officially puts Warner Bros. to shame, which initially planned to shelve the film to obtain a tax write-off.

'Coyote vs. Acme' Is Soaring at the Box Office After Warner Bros. Nearly Buried It

Few movies have had a stranger road to theaters than ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ a film Warner Bros. once deemed not even worth releasing. The Looney Tunes hybrid became one of the most talked-about casualties of Hollywood’s tax write-off era, canceled entirely before a public outcry eventually forced the studio’s hand. That controversy has followed the...