The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie | Grab the hot dogs and mustard! | 03/14/2025

[AniNate]

New Looney Tunes Movie Coming From Warner Bros., GFM Animation (variety.com)

 

GFM Animation will launch worldwide sales on the Warner Bros. Animation-produced theatrical feature at the American Film Market (Oct. 31 – Nov. 5) and will share first-look footage. “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” is the first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie created for a movie theater audience...

 

Directed by Pete Browngardt and the creative team behind the “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck as unlikely heroes and Earth’s only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion...

 

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the film is currently in production with delivery set for Q2 2024. Browngardt also serves as an executive producer. Alex Kirwan (“Looney Tunes Cartoons”) is supervising producer. Sam Register (“Teen Titans Go!”) is also an executive producer...

Edited October 17, 2024 by AniNate

[SpiderByte]

At less than a year out this goes into the main one not On the Lot, right?

[AniNate]

Well there's no official release date yet, next year is just when it's expected to be finished.

 

I wonder if Coyote v Acme got Zaslaved and this is replacing it.

[YM!]

1 hour ago, AniNate said:

New Looney Tunes Movie Coming From Warner Bros., GFM Animation (variety.com)

 

GFM Animation will launch worldwide sales on the Warner Bros. Animation-produced theatrical feature at the American Film Market (Oct. 31 – Nov. 5) and will share first-look footage. “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” is the first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie created for a movie theater audience...

 

Directed by Pete Browngardt and the creative team behind the “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck as unlikely heroes and Earth’s only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion...

 

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the film is currently in production with delivery set for Q2 2024. Browngardt also serves as an executive producer. Alex Kirwan (“Looney Tunes Cartoons”) is supervising producer. Sam Register (“Teen Titans Go!”) is also an executive producer...

The lack of content for theatrical gave this product theatrical is nice. Maybe Gumball gets similar treatment.

[Scubasteve716]

5 hours ago, AniNate said:

Well there's no official release date yet, next year is just when it's expected to be finished.

 

I wonder if Coyote v Acme got Zaslaved and this is replacing it.

Coyote vs Acme got rated a couple months ago. Sure they’re just holding it for 2024 with the strikes. 

[TheDude391]

I like the animation style a lot, hopefully this stays true to the characters and isn't like the Space Jam films.

[Eric Olsen]

The director of this also did those Looney Tunes shorts that debuted on HBO Max a couple years back, which are AMAZING, so I'm excited for this. Neat-o that this isn't a straight-to-HBO Max release too. Good on them, even though I don't know how much pull Looney Tunes has with today's kids.

[TheDude391]

1 hour ago, Eric Fazbear said:

The director of this also did those Looney Tunes shorts that debuted on HBO Max a couple years back, which are AMAZING, so I'm excited for this. Neat-o that this isn't a straight-to-HBO Max release too. Good on them, even though I don't know how much pull Looney Tunes has with today's kids.

Yeah growing up, the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show always aired in reruns on the "kids channels". But kids now don't watch TV so unless they stumble onto it on YouTube, I doubt it's too well known.

[Eric Olsen]

44 minutes ago, TheDude391 said:

Yeah growing up, the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show always aired in reruns on the "kids channels". But kids now don't watch TV so unless they stumble onto it on YouTube, I doubt it's too well known.

Yep. It's also an issue where WB has never done a great job keeping them fresh and relevant for today's kids, especially after Back in Action bombed. You look at Disney, and there's always a Mickey Mouse cartoon airing for preschoolers to indoctrinate them young, those new Paul Rudish shorts aired on Disney Channel all the time, Mickey toys and merch is always on the shelf.

 

WB had a good thing going in the 90s, gangsta flava and all, but now you get like one new reboot every couple years that come and go after 1 or 2 seasons, and now the franchise is largely stuck in a walled garden of a streaming serivce that is nowhere near as popular or successful as Disney's walled garden of a streaming service. Maybe they need to follow the 90s playbook and make Taz and Porky trap/Soundcloud rappers.

[AniNate]

Animatic clip, been up for a year so I assume it's ok to share

 

 

[Jonwo]

I imagine the budget is fairly low given it's being made by WBA rather than WBPA. 

[AniNate]

On 10/26/2023 at 5:26 PM, Scubasteve716 said:

Coyote vs Acme got rated a couple months ago. Sure they’re just holding it for 2024 with the strikes. 

 

You underestimated him

 

Coyote vs. Acme Shelved at Warner Bros. (thewrap.com)

[dudalb]

From the title, Marty the Martian will play a starring role......'"Oh my, the Planet Earth is blocking my view of the Galaxy.I shall haved to blow it up."

[marveldcfox]

Will be zaslavd.

[misterpepp]

This one won't be shelved. They were selling international rights to this at a film market recently.

[AniNate]

Premiering in full at Annecy

 

Warner Bros.' Annecy Slate Includes Lord of the Rings, Bugs Bunny (thewrap.com)

[AniNate]

 

[Grebacio]

There's no confirmed released date yet but according to Discussing Film, it will have a theatrical release sometime during 2024

 

 

[AniNate]

I would say this should probably be moved to the derby but just really don't have a clue what kind of release strategy Warner and Darth Zaslav have intended for this

[dudalb]

On 10/26/2023 at 5:35 PM, Eric Burnett said:

Yep. It's also an issue where WB has never done a great job keeping them fresh and relevant for today's kids, especially after Back in Action bombed. You look at Disney, and there's always a Mickey Mouse cartoon airing for preschoolers to indoctrinate them young, those new Paul Rudish shorts aired on Disney Channel all the time, Mickey toys and merch is always on the shelf.

 

WB had a good thing going in the 90s, gangsta flava and all, but now you get like one new reboot every couple years that come and go after 1 or 2 seasons, and now the franchise is largely stuck in a walled garden of a streaming serivce that is nowhere near as popular or successful as Disney's walled garden of a streaming service. Maybe they need to follow the 90s playbook and make Taz and Porky trap/Soundcloud rappers.

Irony is the Humor in the classic Looney Tunes is certainly a lot closer to what kids today find funny then the humor in the Disney Mickey Mouse shorts.