Coyote vs. Acme Finally Gets a Worldwide Theatrical Release Date | SDCC 2025

The long-running saga of the infamously shelved live-action/animated hybrid film, Coyote vs. Acme, looks similar it volition yet spot a blessed ending with a planetary theatrical merchandise successful August 2026.

Announced by Will Forte during a sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2025, Coyote vs. Acme hits theaters connected August 28, 2026.

Eric Bauza voices 9 characters successful the film, including Bugs Bunny, who acts arsenic a heavy pharynx benignant informant for Will Forte's lawyer character. Animated cameos see Miss Prissy and a sheep connected the jury, and Playboy Penguin carving crystal sculptures arsenic courtroom sketches.

Coyote vs. Acme yet has a planetary theatrical merchandise date. Image credit: IGN.

Coyote vs. Acme, which stars big-name endowment similar John Cena and Lana Condor, was connected the fast-track and adjacent managed to decorativeness filming successful 2022. It was primitively acceptable for HBO Max and is said to travel the legendary Wile E. Coyote arsenic helium launches a ineligible conflict against Acme owed to its “countless faulty products.”

Things were looking bully arsenic manager Dave Green pressed forward, but that each came to a halt successful 2023 erstwhile Warner Bros. announced that, contempt finishing the filming process, Coyote vs. Acme would nary longer find its mode to Max — oregon anyplace other — arsenic the institution pivoted to absorption much connected theatrical releases.

What resulted from its shelving was a run from audiences and filmmakers alike arsenic movie enjoyers sought to spot it released, not lone to admit the movie but the enactment that went into it, too. Then, successful March, American movie organisation institution Ketchup Entertainment, which is liable for handling the merchandise of projects similar The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie and Ferrari, signed a woody with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring Coyote vs. Acme to theaters.

Last year, IGN published an probe into the Coyote vs. Acme rollercoaster, revealing the wrong communicative from a dependable histrion who was astatine the beforehand of the run to prevention it.

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