I have to apologize to all my fans, I have made a terrible error. In this video I talk about a piece of lost media involving John Cena and I failed to make a "You Can't See Me" joke. All the piece were in front of me, but I failed to execute. I know I don't deserve it, but I hope you can someday forgive me for this grave, inexcusable mistake. It will never happen again.
You can't burn down your own business for insurance money. You shouldn't be able to destroy your fully filmed, expensive project, for free money either.
Tax write offs aren't exactly "free money." I have an LLC and file based on what I've expensed vs what I've made, and when something is a failure it means I pay less in taxes, but since taxes aren't over 100% I still end up losing money. The thing that shouldn't be allowed is writing off fully finished works. Tax writeoffs were designed for things where there was no hope of getting it finished and cutting losses, like if a movie was supposed to cost $1 million but the director kept changing things and now they're $5 million in the hole and they aren't even halfway done with principal photography, or all the lead actors die during filming and there's no way to cut around it. At that point "yeah, write it off as a loss and get the tax reduction," but fully completed works that are being written off for short term tax relief is terrible. The video said it would be a 30 million write off, that means the movie probably cost at least 70 million to make (probably more).
@@catholiccontriversy I was under the impression that you could also do tax writeoffs if the finished product is simply doomed to fail. "We put $90 million into this, we need another $30 million for promotion and distribution, and all our best data indicates it's gonna bomb. Can we please take the hit and at least get a credit on our taxes?" What bothers me is that they *probably* don't have to prove that in movies. Like, I doubt there's a division of the IRS that monitors the potential profitability of artistic products, so they probably just take their word for it. And in the case of Batgirl - yeah, certainly they were gonna lose movie. Nobody gave a damn about it until *after* it was cancelled, and the DCEU was already in flames by then. No issues there. After the Snydercut thing they had to realize they were just throwing good money after bad. But this was almost certainly going to be *at least* a cult hit that would bring in money for years to come. So this feels a bit like just taking advantage of the system.
@@mahatmarandy5977 one can write off finished works if it's doomed to fail, as they are doing right now. I'm just saying it shouldn't be allowed because of nonsense like this. I don't know all the details of "deeming a creative work a loss" outside of "the owner can never try to make money on it ever again," but I know for me there's like a "minimum demonstration of effort to profit" so I can't just say "this cruise I took where I just had fun was a business experience." I think for artistic works there should be like a "you must give it a commercial release to prove failure." Yeah, Batgirl was doomed from the start and would be a good example of "writing off a finished failure," but I think it should have had like a month release on HBO MAX even if it didn't get any promotion so there could be a demonstration of trying to profit, and then when it gets no views WB can say "yep, it's an undeniable loss, I'd like my tax burden reduced please," or as would likely be the case with coyote vs acme, "wow, this was actually a lot more successful than we thought, we made more than enough to cover what we would have saved with the write off."
@@catholiccontriversy Well in the case of an unfinishable project you have actually made a loss. If the movie is completely filmed, postproduced, cut etc then you should need to prove you TRIED to make your money back. Limited release, direct to Video/Streaming, whatever. You should not be able to just let the Taxes pay a share of the costs and be done. That is not how anything else works.
Warner canceling and possibly destroying Coyote Vs Acme better backfire spectacularly on them. This movie had promise yet they wanted to use it as a tax write off!
WB: "We think we'll take a 30 million dollar tax write off because we don't think the movie will make us more than that." Netflix: "We'll give you 50 million dollars for it." WB: "No! It's worth a hell of a lot more than that!" It's seriously like them holding it hostage for more ransom then they otherwise need. Or yeah like burning down a building for insurance money. It is criminal and they should be prosecuted.
Imagine this was all a giant scheme and they are gonna release the movie and they only said it was cancelled to get people talking about it so it could make more money
I maintain that any finished film that gets shelved for a tax write off, the film immediately goes into the public domain and is available via the Library of Congress (or another, more appropriate agency) to the public. The American public should be able to watch the movies that we're paying for.
To be honest, I'm not the biggest Looney Tunes fan, but I'm still pissed that canceled this movie. One, it sounds like a cool concept, and the plot overview makes it seem like one I would've loved if I actually saw it. Two, like one of the articles said, cancelling this is like burning a building down for the insurance money. I hope that one day someone leaks the movie and the government makes it illegal to use completed movies and shows as tax write-offs, especially if they were available for years.
I feel like they are cancelling things that are new and creative and keeping bland movies. The movies they deemed were good to show the public didn't get good scores from what I heard
It is illegal to write off works that have been available for years, so long as it broke even. Tax write offs are "I lost money on this, reduce my tax burden," and saying "I lost money on this" when you made money is fraud. Fully completed works that never went to market shouldn't be allowed to be written off. Write offs were designed for "this is 3 time over budget and we aren't even done filming" or "the lead actor died 2/3 through filming and there is no way to cut around that" or other "this is never getting finished" conditions, or "this movie bombed at the theater and bombed on home media, I haven't even made 10% back," not "I have a fully completed work but a lot of debt, to keep the tax man off my back I'm going to deem this a loss so I can lower my tax burden instead of trying to make money on it."
@@catholiccontriversy Fair enough. While the other circumstances are at least understandable normally, I swear that studios are using them more and more now as an excuse to not pay residuals to their actors, so I think there should be more barriers for that to be allowed to prevent that. But I totally agree that fully completed works that never seen the light of day like this movie shouldn't be allowed to be a tax write off, especially when other studios were willing to air it on their platform.
I actually feel sick watching this… why can cooperations even write off projects they don’t release? So many years of work are going to be deleted to increase profits.
I honestly don't understand how they even work (write offs) but from what I've been hearing if it was a money issue, they probably would have made their money back and then some from how hyped up everyone was after it seemed like we were going to be able to watch this movie.
@@Sailor-Khioneusually when management changes hands, the new management wants to wash their hands clean of all the old stuff going on before they took over as much as possible. That's usually how it works. In this case, they would still be taking a loss as a company. The actors and film makers got paid but they just won't be able to show off their work as a finished product to be used for other projects as a "hey, I worked on this film" in their Resume.
You left out how WB also wrote down both Final Space and Infinity Train meaning those shows could never be seen again, and I fear the same could be done to RWBY now they shut down Rooster Teeth.
The people I feel bad for are the animators and VAs. Like they put their heart and soul into something they clearly loved just for it to be destroyed. David Zaslav is making it really clear that he doesn't give a shit about anything but money.
Money at the cost of more money, and maybe his whole company. If things are going like this, I can only see the end of something in Warner Bros. This'll most likely end up like how Warner Bros., back when they were known as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, was purchased by Kinney National in 1969. I think at this point, Warner Bros. Discovery deserves a similar fate; being bought out by a much bigger company, maybe someone like Amazon, who in turn would kick Zaslav out of his position, and replace him with Jennifer Salke (the head of Amazon and MGM Studios, which Amazon owns). Though hopefully, and this would most definitely not be likely, this wouldn't result in them closing Warners' animation studio(s), like what happened in, again, 1969. Again, Amazon closing Warners' animation studios wouldn't be likely. Unlike in 1969, there are not much theatrical shorts to die off anymore (I think that was the main reason why Warners (as well as almost every other major company that had a studio making theatrical shorts) decided to shut their animation studio in 1969; there was no need for more theatrical shorts anymore, as television was pretty much the dominant force in entertainment at that time).
@@davidhileman8567 I honestly feel very sorry for MGM, since Turner Entertainment bought the company and appropriated its biggest hits since 1986, MGM stopped being one of the big seven (it even became the big six since then) it has gone very unnoticed as a company They still have important productions like The Pink Panther, but it is no longer the same success that they had a long time ago and their best productions are now from Warner Bros. (which, by the way, have done almost nothing good since then and they rarely do anything good with their franchises).
I really hope it gets leaked, but as an animation student, teachers have spoken of seeing people blacklisted from the entire industry for leaking stuff against NDAs, not to mention I'm pretty sure WB could sue whoever does
as someone who lives in albuquerque, I remember one street downtown being completely covered in acme advertising a while ago. I was confused but I guess it was for this. A shame.
FIRST. It's so heartbreaking to see this movie be deleted like that. We're NEVER gonna get a 2D renaissance if major studios keep scrapping projects like this.
OH I think we ARE going to see a GREAT and SWEEPING 2D Renaissance.... (Monkey's paw kicks in) It's just going to be AI generated when it gets cheap enough for studios to try and shovel that out instead of 3D
We're never going to get this "2D renaissance" you describe, either way. Because it will never come. 2D isn't viable anymore. This might hurt you to hear, but 2D has been dead for a long time and it's never coming back. Audiences have rejected 2D time and time again. The Princess and The Frog? My Little Pony The Movie? The last two hand-drawn animated features ever made, and they flopped because audiences reject 2D. If it's not Pixar, Dreamworks, or Disney's 3D studios, the perception of audiences are flat out saying they don't want to see it. Besides Coyote vs Acme wasn't 2D anyway. It was 3D animated. So I have no idea what your point is anyway.
Honestly, for as much as a shady business scoundrel as he was, Jack Warner worked hard to build an image of prestige for the company he and his brothers founded. Even though WB is basically a brand that's been bought and sold many times, these practices are still an insult to the legacy of Warner family and the studio they created. Yeah, a lot of unfair treatment happened in the Golden Hayes era, but Warners created some of the greatest stars and films to ever grace the silver screen. Can you imagine them making Casablanca or Rebel Without a Cause only to scrap it afterwards?! It would have been unheard of back then, and it would be the kind of thing that would have damaged the brand Jack worked hard to maintain. It's also a big slap in the face to the creators of the Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, Chuck Jones and his Termite Terrace team. Zaslov doesn't seem to show any respect whatsoever for the company and brand he inherited.
Agree. Usually I'm against it, but Trash People like that (obviously only meaning the People who make those Decissions. Nothing wrong with the Voice Actors and Animators obviously. I feel bad for them) don't deserve to make any Money. Maybe then they will learn
Absolutely 100% objectively NO. Just the kind of horrible response i'd expect from a know nothing child. The only thing you'd be accomplishing by doing that is CONTRIBUTING to the hurt and disrespect that WB already shows the creatives laboring under their oppressive and devaluing corporate regime. You're hurting CREATORS by doing that, not Warner Bros itself. The people who actually NEED and DESERVE the respect by supporting official media are the creators of the content you claim to like in the first place. By pirating it, you're assuring that NO ONE gets a dime. You're punishing absolutely EVERYONE in that case, meanwhile whether you pirate or you don't, WB faces no financial difficulties with their guaranteed raises and bonuses that the executives give themselves, yet nickle and dime the creators that aren't getting paid nearly as well as the top brass. If you pirate, you hurt the creators. You're doing WB's job for them. And WB executive will themselves NEVER feel the effect of the piracy themselves that your ignorant little lukewarm crusade THINKS it's doing. They'll keep making money, they'll keep giving themselves raises, and as long as you pirate, WB's takeaway will be that they just need to KEEP doing things like this since that's where the REAL money is. What you propose will make everything worse, helps no one, and merely justifies you being a theif for your own selfish reasons. And this isn't just semantics. Using the very real, very recent issue where WB recently let go of Rooster Teeth and dissolved the company they had under their belt, was because they weren't financially viable for them, so they just killed them off. Which means it's because of people like you that Red vs Blue, and all the Rooster Teeth content is dead and their employees and animators are all out of a job. Because WB saw that piracy of RT's internet content was becoming a liability to the company, and just cut that whole arm off, hurting everyone at RT in the process and putting them all out of work. WB do things like this, delete entire movies like this, in part because they turn to cheap methods and tax writes offs in part because people like YOU won't support their creative divisions and the honest hard working people that WB screws because of it.
WB sees this and goes “You can’t pirate what we don’t even release” The first burned WB project that becomes available online will become the most popular torrent ever.
@@coffeegoblin 😂 the Situation when someone uploaded the Popeye Movie was so stu**d. Why are they crying about Copyright if they aren't allowed to make any Money with it anyways?🤦🏻♂️
I think someone does have Coyote vs. Acme stored somewhere, but can't leak it yet out of fear of legal reprocptions from WB Discovery. They're waiting for some time to pass thru before leaking it.
Maybe they could leak the movie on a cheap, disposable PC in a Starbucks with free wifi located in the middle of nowhere on a virtual private network using a dummy account? Surely Warner Discovery's legal team couldn't trace evidence of the leak to a cheap PC in a landfill, right?
My only probem with it being leaked is the translation, and widespread distrubrution. I'm from Eastern Europe grow up watching Loony Toons, and I would love to see it in my own first laungvige.
Man, if the RU-vidr Ray Mona managed to find the complete pilot episodes for the U.S. made adaptations of Sailor Moon and Knights of the Zodiac that were sitting in some archives for over 30 years, but a movie that has been completed less than a year ago may have been completely deleted, that says something about the volatility of preservation of media
When I heard testimonies that this movie made people cry, had them on the brink of tears, etc, I thought "Oh, it can't be that heartbreaking. It's a Wile E Coyote movie. He's hardly the most popular Looney Tunes character." Until I finally watched near the end of the synopsis when the Road Runner testifies that he's always thought of Coyote as a friend, asking when he'll be coming home. Yeah, I teared up. Cried a little bit. God damn it.
Like I thought for months that the tear jerking scene would be from Coyote doing an impassioned speech in his Super Genius voice, explaining his case and the pain he has been living. But no, Road Runner having Wile-E’s back and asking him when will he be coming home? Is just ungodly levels of adorable
I have two theories. 1. This is part of a power struggle between James Gunn and David Zaslav. The latter wants to exert more influence over DC, and this whole back-and-forth mess is his way of threatening Gunn "I'm your boss and I'm in charge of your movies, not you." 2. It's basically an ad campaign. WB is trying to artificially generate a Snyder Cut-style fan movement for a movie that would've probably flopped otherwise, so they can release it and lap up tons of good PR. This might also apply to the "leaked" Batman Beyond concept art. It's no secret that they're desperate for audience goodwill.
@@austinreed7343 Well, just because something didn't work doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't attempted. Nobody cared about Batgirl or wanted it in the first place.
I doubt its a deliberate marketing ploy but I can see how a big power struggle within WB between Gunn and Zaslav could be a big reason as to why. I wouldnt be surprised if Gunn at least had some influence on how the movie was even able to be shown to other distributors, but of sadly its Zaslav who has the big cards. And this guy is already super rich and clearly doesnt care about the art itself, only the money. Even if the entire studio goes bust, he'd likely just jump ship and escape consequences.
I would’ve gone to see it in theatres. Few things hit me in the childhood like Looney Tunes and Animaniacs. I’ll always take the time to watch something new that calls back to the classics
The fact that a lot of these streaming services like Netflix release some of these mediocre Bad movies on their app that have budgets that reach 200 million but they said no to this movie that was already received well in test screenings blows my mind
@@TheUltimateMovieWatcherINC. That and Sazlov is reported to have said he didn’t want the movie to be sold because he was scared that it would find success under another distributor.
@@geoffreyrichards6079 then why don't that useless motherf%cker just relese it? Oh yeah I forget, he doas not want to pay taxs (as if taxes would hurt his walet).
The only reason Warner bros even negotiated was to get the IRS off their back after a congressman stated in a meeting that the IRS should investigate Warner bros for Tax Fraud. Which is why Warner bros then called a bunch of companies and acted like they tried but no-one wanted it or didn’t offer high enough. Warner bros is doing this on purpose and it shows even more with how they have “deleted” the movie. You don’t do that unless you are hiding something, even Disney released projects they don’t truly believe in (strange world comes to mind) so something is going on at Warner Bros, and if they get investigated, I’m sure we’re gonna find out all the dumb shit they’re doing to probably pocket money.
@@PatLundFullheartedly agree on this. I'm DONE with this company. Absolutely done. Fire Zaslav and maybe then I'd be willing to stop pirating their crap
I record episodes of animated series owned by Warner Bros. which I personally like, direct from the cartoon network broadcasts and other company channels through the internet instead of cable TV, that helps a lot to archive the content without spending money on what they sell us and without giving ratings to any of them of its overrated channels, pirating it is also a great alternative for the same reasons.
@@youtoozboi763 I would also like to collect that and animation cels, but I don't have money so I settle for cheating by downloading illegally from the internet and recording content directly from the TV.
If it ever does get leaked it will probably be years so that those responsible can hide their tracks. But a Twitter comment from an industry professional suggested post-production is so tight that no one would have a chance to save a copy for the future. Fingers crossed someone tried.
something needs to be done to stop big studios like WB just not releasing finished movies, like it needs to be de-incentivised because they'll just keep doing this and it massively hurts the people who spent their time and hard work on these movies
I actually have a huge soft spot for Will E. Coyote. It was one of the first cartoons I watched growing up and I always felt for him, though I liked Roadrunner too. And I was seriously impressed by the script, it could have been genuinely a nice flick. I do hope it gets leaked or at least someone recreates it.
Same. The sound design alone has hammered a deep, Cayote-shaped indent into my soul in which the cartoon resides ever since. I always favored Looney Toons over Disney cartoons of Mickey and Donald. The visual humor has always been more unhinged and wielded such a punch at times.
@@lonestarr1490 Me too! Looney Tunes made me love music of the past decades as well whenever there were episodes playing it. And the humor was genuinely witty at times.
if foghorn leghorn was present in the senate meeting, im 100% sure he would've been a senator; his whole shtick was based on a fictional senator named claghorn from a radio show. it'd fit in nice and snuggly with the other mythology gags and easter eggs we can glean. though he would be a perfect "now i'm just a simple country lawyer" type lol
I have a feeling this film will eventually be leaked. Considering how highly sought after this is, ill be shocked if if doesn’t. Incredibly sad to see all the people who worked on this basically mourning the death of this project.
I vividly remember the day this movie was announced nearly six years ago. The concept alone immediately got me interested. I was really looking forward to this movie getting released, but I started worrying when its release date was removed. Real shame... Fuck Warner Bros Discovery
Also, after reading the leak synopsis, I honestly believe that the reason why zazlo of canceled this film is because the Acme corporation the stereotypical inept and evil cartonishly villainous corporation sounds now awfully a lot like the current real life cartoonishly business evil corporation that is Warner Brothers. He probably canceled it because the movie's description of acme probably hit way too close to home to his own business decisions. 😅
I have my own special stakes in my frustration, since Wil E Coyote was one of my Favorite Things when I was seven-eight (2000ish). My eighth birthday was Coyote and Road Runner themed. We had a cake shaped like a canyon. We made a paper mache acme bomb. I still have a painted bowl from September 2000 with my best 8 year old attempt at drawing them. I would have loved to have seen this movie so much, because I would have ADORED to have this twenty-four years ago. (I even still have a plush that is in need of some repair that is beyond me)
I think it’s insane to not release this , I hope someone does leak it because I’m a huge looney tunes fan and wwe fan so this wouldve been a perfect movie to watch and a box office success
This sounds like a movie that I would have really enjoyed it sounds like it wasn't from just random people but people who grew up and loved the looney tunes and wanted to do this right. This would have been the movie that could have helped set looney tunes back in the spotlight.
In 2012 I visited Warner Brothers Movie World in Australia.. Going into one of the shops, I asked a staff member if they sold Wile Coyote cups or any other merchandise. She said no. "He's a Disney character." Yet she knew who the Road Runner was. They had those! What?! I did manage to find a small Coyote plushie toy there. That was it. 2000. I bought a mug, plushie and a poster. He'd practically been erased.😢
This movie had so much heart that you could tell it was going to be an exception to Hollywood’s terrible mediocrity. Hollywood never misses an opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot. The organic viral news cycle this created was enough to have a crowd sourced marketing campaign. This film could have been an instant success upon a theatrical release
@inazumamati4954 To Hellma with Velma. If WB was run by someone competent (I.E. NOT David Zaslav), we'd be getting Coyote Vs. ACME and other high-quality WB projects instead of garbage like Velma.
What the hell?! Are companies TRYING to piss people off and lose money? I mean I never watched any of that Velma show but that was because of how bad I heard it had been. I mean what are they thinking?
For streaming content they don’t use viewership numbers they actually use metrics from a third party on how much engagement the content got, not that people actually watched it but rather how many people talked about it online. Therefore you can get a very bad show renewed if you ticked enough people off
@@railerswim Yet for a show like Velma it makes no sense since the negative press doesnt benefit WB finacially at all, though I wouldnt be surprised if the executives behind the decission making dont realise this at all, given that they tend to only focus on spreadsheet numbers and trying to get more money. Never any critical thinking for what actually causes money, just following trends at a base level.
I literally cant think of a better choice than Foghorn Leghorn for the villain, i always found him so condescending as a child, him being the villain really put a smile on my face.
Yeah, he was always an anti-hero at best, I'm not sure where All Things Lost is coming from. Like one of the cartoons just starts with him picking up the dog and smacking him in the dick with a board several times... at least, that's what it looks like, I think it was meant to be a spanking. But the point is, it was completely unprovoked, even though Daffy "attacks" Bugs unprovoked, he doesn't do it directly, he tries to lead Elmer into doing it. Things just seem so much more passive that way, or something.
Holy shit, I just realized that depending on depending on the final redesign, Tweety Bird could be a Tumblr Sexyman with that brooding backstory. After the Seuss ones, I kinda expect it from retro IPs like this
Zuck Faslav. On the bright side, I like that this video acknowledges IMDB is not a very reliable source. Far too often, I've seen that website falsely credit actors as having roles in media they had nothing to do with or allow articles on movies that don't exist (which usually get taken down once it's realized the movies aren't real).
Wile E. Coyote is my all-time favorite Looney Tune. And the fact that it's his movie that gets this treatment is just astounding. I hope WBD hasn't completely wiped the film, but as long as someone has a copy, it should be salvagable. Should this film be leaked, consider me part of the Straw Hats
Anyone who knows how WB treats their games division, you shouldn't be surprised by this. You would also know why WB deserves to take the title of Most Hated Company In America.
It looks like some weird decisions were made with the film, but I think it would have been good and I would have def bought a ticket. Maybe a DVD. Some merch would have been cool. I am really hoping to see it one day. Seriously it should be Public Domain. Any film written off for taxes should be Public Domain, because we, the government, bought it. Foghorn Leghorn works best on his barnyard terrorizing a dog and getting chased by a tiny chicken hawk. I think the Looney Tunes Show had him as an out-of-touch mogul, and that fits. He's not a master supervillain business type. He should have been a Senator, along with Senator Fudd, the best casting. What they did to my boy Daffy though? Again, weird decisions, but still a lot of fun.
I'm bringing this up now. There was a script for a live action adaptation of the "fables" comic series(the only adaptation that the book series got was "The Wolf Among Us " back in 2013), so Warner bros has canceled a script for something I probably would have liked.
I don't think there will be another movie that will get me hooked/get me excited for more than Coyote vs. ACME. For insight, the movie would have to get me hooked from the premise alone.
I just watched this video and after hearing the synopsis i wanna cry because it sounds amazing. I love wile.e coyote and road runner due to my father showing it to me, bet if he was alive he would've liked it as well.
34:04 (Space Jam 2) to be fair about Space Jam 2, that was released Day and Date on HBO Max/Max at that time. so more people probably saw that at home rather than in person. so that would be a factor as to why it bombed in addition to content and story issues. As far as Back in Action, I don't have an answer for that one.
It was the beginning of Brendan Fraser's blackballing, and Looney Tunes as a property hasn't been nearly as big as they were in the mid-late 90s. Also, mixed-media character vehicles had been a trend and bombing hard around that time.
Despiste how awful the news are, I was smiling through all the leaks for the movie. And the story seems soo fun. I really hope we get to see this movie someday.
@@adultmoshifan87 or better yet, that warer bros is already bought by any company right now, there are companies that work better than them (universal, paramount, sony, etc.), the only bad thing is knowing how they will buy a company as big as warner bros. Whether to go bankrupt or not suffer the same fate that Disney and 20th Century Fox suffered since News Corporation sold the studio to Disney, there is also the issue of debts and the latter is much more complex to explain.
I'm holding out hope that someone behind the scenes saw what had happened before and was keeping a secret save file of this movie. It would be smart to not leak it right away because it would be easier to find out who did it. But after a couple years, once the work flow of this move had been lost and forgotten, this bold hero will anonymously release it to the world.
this was one of the recent movies that i was legitimately excited for. i havent had anything peak my interest like this in years and for it to just be destroyed is just. wow. wtf
Hey, letting you know that the screenshot at 11:38 is fanmade! It was created by someone named AldrineRowdyruffBoy on another platform back in January. Someone thought it was a real leaked image and tweeted it. The art at 14:18 was created as a gift created by Diolot Clément for one of the actors that contributed to the film!
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16:15 What I like best about (presumably) Coyote's motel room is that the ceiling fan isn't even on the bed. No, the mattress is against the wall, in front of the wardrobe. Coyote tore up the bed to have more space for whatever scheming he was doing. The fan is leaning on the ironing board, next to a giant spring. The pillows are thrown against the wall with the blanket wadded up in front. Coyote probably sleeps on the floor in that tiny space. Truly he is devoted to his cause. The film crew didn't have to put this kind of detail and love into this motel room. But they did.
Wasn’t there someone who claimed they had the movie and were ready to leak it should Warner Bros. not move forward with the release? Whoever they are, I hope they do it!
Honestly, and I say this is someone who was super hyped for this film. It still is especially after reading the leads plots synopsis that the real heart-wrenching part of about the deletion of these films is if Warner Brothers just released good films but then had to cancel some films. I would be upset but I would understand. Happens to studios all the time. Disney does this all the time. We usually find out years later what got canceled and there's likely concept art and stuff. But what really rubs the salt in the world is that things like Wiley, coyote and Batgirl get canned because supposedly if Warner Brothers releases it, it's going to like tank their business and get reviewed badly. But then they proceed to release things like the fantastic beasts films and the flash which were God damn nightmares overly expensive bloated financial albatrosses that were ridicule to hell and back and tanked badly. So it's like what is it Warner Brothers? You're afraid that the Batgirl thing is going to be horrible, but then you somehow approved the atrocity that was The Flash movie?!? That's what makes this hurt the worst and it truly does feel like Warner Brothers is blindly canceling things and throwing other things at the wall and seeing what sticks. I'll put it this way. I am not a fan of what Disney has been doing with multiple properties but at least they know and acknowledge when they screw up and then at least attempt to have plans to do things to fix things. Warner Brothers literally seems like a chicken that's running around with both its head and its legs chopped off.
The cynical part of me thinks that they're deliberately manufacturing a "lost media" situation to create hype. It will eventually be "found", get a ""reluctant"" official release, and be much more successful than it otherwise would have been.
The amount of incompetence of modern movie studios is staggering. It would be understandable if they just couldn't figure out how to make a good movie, but when they have one already done they choose to not release it. Unbelieavable.
It’s not even that, nearly all of the test screenings they did went really well and got very positive score so it would’ve been an amazing movie. David Zazlav it’s just trying to kill animation at WB which is ironic because Looney Tunes really helped put animation in the mainstream
I’m not the only one here who is reminded of a story arc just like this in GTA5. A lawyer takes off with the only analogue copy of a movie your character co-produced. You chase her to the airport, and then watch as she gets sucked into a jet engine…
I’m so mad that this is constantly allowed to happen to completed movies. It’s not right. I’ve never followed a movie’s production as close as I followed this one. Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Back In Action are great. So I was excited to see this.
6:30 early reviews of movies from critics who were shown early screenings months or weeks in advance is a terrible metric for judging a film's quality. They're almost always super-fans of the property who are easily swayed by the glitz and glamour of seeing a movie early at a a private screening in a theater exclusively for them, the critics. These are people who sniff their own farts, after all. Most of the critics who saw The Flash before it came out said it was genius and filled with lots of callbacks to prior superhero movies, even Stephen King loved it at a pre-release screening. But we all know how that movie turned out...
It's stuff what like what Warner Bros Discovery do, as well as many other big corpos do, that makes my stance of piracy not equal stealing stand firm. We seem to rarely truly "own" anything anymore, and only pay fees and licenses to use a product for a limited time. If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing. I pray that if Warner Bros Discovery falls, maybe someone, somehow will salvage this movie in some shape or form.
Hopefully some champ downloaded the whole movie and will leak it somehow. This is really one of those that could be a huge hit. I think at this point, WBD actively hates fans. During the strikes, they brought in far-right commentators for the premier of Barbie, knowing they would trash the movie.
I agree that it's pretty offputting that Foghorn Leghorn is the villain for seemingly no reason but otherwise I really liked the plot, thank you for summarizing.
It’s sad so many iconic IP’s are owned by a company that has no regard for their legacy. This is some seriously bad PR for the studio, they should just release it to save face now.
