Our current IP-obsessed age is doing anything possible with old properties, but that’s not as new a trend as you’d think. Such a practice was around in the early and mid-2000s, just in small droves—case in point, do you remember when the Looney Tunes were superheroes? Yes, that really happened in a show called Loonatics […]
HBO Max’s ‘Looney Tunes’ Purge Has Found a Sanctuary in Tubi
Looney Tunes‘ search for a streaming home has reached a happy ending—and some consolation after being prominently featured on HBO Max initially and then being wiped from the platform. The series has settled on Tubi, where fans can now find over 700 episodes. After being removed from the HBO Max media library back in March, […]
‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Finally Comes Out Next Year, and We’ve Seen Footage
Two years ago, Coyote vs. Acme was a victim of Warner Bros. Discovery’s cost-cutting cancellation wave. Despite public outcry, it initially seemed like it’d never see the light of day. But things have worked out in its favor: it’s coming to theaters next year, and San Diego Comic-Con offered a first look at what’s to come […]
How Strawberry Shortcake Introduced Me to the Conundrum of Cartoons on DVD
The advent of streaming wars has built a physical media scarcity in a very specific medium: animation. One of the headaches of Disney+ is having to sit through copious credits from all over the world between episodes of Bluey, and then having to deal with the background ambient binge of episodes stopping abruptly. Then there’s […]
Warner Bros’ Looney Tunes Loathing Has Leaped From the Digital to the Physical World
In Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest move seemingly targeting the famed studio’s cinema history, one of the original homes of the Looney Tunes is set to be demolished. This, coming right off the new regime’s scrubbing of the cartoons off the platform, is certainly not a good look. It’s also bummer news in the aftermath of […]
Here’s Where You Can Still Watch Classic Looney Tunes Cartoons—and Why You Should
There’s a new Looney Tunes movie out in theaters with The Day the Earth Blew Up—but if it’s gotten you excited to spend more time with the classic characters, you’ll have to look further than Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max. We can’t imagine who’s grinding an axe over there, but the studio’s classic Looney Tunes library […]
Looney Tunes Rise Up to Save the World and Animation in The Day the Earth Blew Up
The team behind the delightfully chaotic recent run of Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons led by director Pete Browngardt have pulled off a masterful bombastic feat—right under the nose of a real-life Judge Doom behind an exec desk—with the triumphant The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Believe it or not the film […]
Could the New Looney Tunes Movie Change the Fate of Coyote vs. Acme?
During our sit-down interview with Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza, who plays Daffy and Porky in The Day the Earth Blew Up, —hitting theaters this week thanks to Ketchup Entertainment—Bauza talked about how this latest cinematic adventure for those darn Tunes could impact another movie Warner Bros. placed on the shelf: Dave Green’s Coyote […]
How the Looney Tunes Conquered the Big Screen in The Day the Earth Blew Up
The journey The Day the Earth Blew Up went on to reach the big screen is Looney to say the least. Those scrappy Tunes managed to avoid the chopping block of one David Zaslav thanks to Ketchup Entertainment, which acquired the film by Looney Tunes Cartoons‘ current cadre of creatives led by director Pete Browngardt. […]