Warner Bros. Plans To Relaunch Looney Tunes Theatrically In 2028

Warner Bros. has a plan to carry its Looney Tunes secure again to the theatrical format starting in 2028, in accordance with a brand new report by Matthew Belloni within the Puck publication.

Belloni’s report centered on “non-core property” that Warner Bros. Discovery would possibly promote to assist shore up the corporate’s funds and cut back its debt load. In line with the report, promoting the Looney Tunes characters stays an choice although the probability of such a sale is low.

The proof that presently suggests WBD isn’t planning to promote the Looney Tunes characters is that Warner Bros. Photos Animation, below the management of Invoice Damaschke, has a “plan for the property that can start to roll out in 2028,” per the report.

Belloni additionally revealed that former Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes had explored promoting Looney Tunes to The Walt Disney Firm. That will have been earlier than Time Warner was offered to AT&T in 2018, and even longer earlier than David Zaslav’s Discovery purchased the corporate from AT&T in 2022.

Amid’s Take: It’s extremely troublesome to examine how WBD would possibly resurrect the Looney Tunes franchise in theatrical kind, so long as the corporate is being led by Zaslav. WBD’s present method to those prized characters is totally incomprehensible as the corporate has just lately produced two Looney Tunes movies and chosen to launch neither of them.

Distribution of its hand-drawn The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Film was farmed out to the European distribution firm GFM Animation, which in flip offered the movie to a no-name American distributor known as Ketchup Leisure, a low-wattage agency that doesn’t seem to own the advertising or promoting functionality to launch a serious movie starring iconic WB characters. After which there’s the hybrid Coyote vs. Acme, which the corporate has shelved for completely no good cause and presently appear to has no intention of releasing.

The irony is that these two movies are among the many greatest long-form examples of Looney Tunes leisure ever dedicated to movie. The truth that they’ve made two exemplar titles with these iconic characters and determined to launch neither of them via Warner Bros. is a transparent indication that the Zaslav regime is past clueless of what the model is about or what to do with the characters. Why do Looney Tunes have to be “relaunched” once they’re already making nice movies with the characters after which not releasing them? Even by Hollywood requirements, it’s a enterprise choice that doesn’t make any sense.