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‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever.
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 9, 2024
Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer.
(Source: https://t.co/CRJ33GW4SK) pic.twitter.com/fivqey7r39
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Jesus Christ that's hilarious. They run the numbers and find it will only be modestly profitable so they declare it a huge loss. And there's tards who think the IRS and black people are why they have to pay taxes.
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A tax benefit of $35-40 million means the film cost them $90-100 million to make it. They probably got offers of like $50 million or less because it sucked and they just said screw it.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1amq4eb/warner_bros_has_refused_offers_to_buy_coyote_vs
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1amp75b/coyote_vs_acme_is_now_expected_to_be_shelved_and
https://old.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/1ampp6t/wb_continues_to_suck_coyote_vs_acme_is_now
Theme of these posts: Zaslav sucks, capitalism bad
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Wtf this actually
seems like a really 
funny 
premise
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This is the kind of movie my grandparents take people to see, and always buy DVD of regardless of whether it was in theaters
I saw the crew reel and it was a bunch of artists with grey hair smiling and having the time of their life doing the effects
I think they got left alone by Warner and forgotten about due to the Barbie movie being made at the same time
(Warner keeps DMCAing the crew reel so it's hard to find
)
It's supposed to be live action but with cartoon effects, and a cartoon wiley coyote (like who framed Roger Rabbit)
the premise is that Wiley Coyote sues ACME for damage but his lawyer is just as incompetent as he is
but they discover cooperate corruption or smth, but mostly a bunch of wacky slapstick happens
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yeah that does sound funny. sad :(
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That sounds so good!
@CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM love slapstick so much it's unreal
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Just the fact that it's a premise at all, not a superhero or a toy, already puts it at the head of the pack.
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I haven't seen a good answer to this on reddit since they all know nothing, but I'm not buying this tax write off stuff. One of the fundamental concepts in accounting is the matching principle which means expenses are incurred around the same time revenues come in. I would have to assume like 90% of a movies revenue comes in the first year, meaning you can write off at least 90% of the expenses that first year too. I think these cancelled movies have just been complete garbage.
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And as for not letting others make a counteroffer, WB owns Looney Tunes IP. It has no incentive to let competitors make money off it.
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They also have obscene asking prices that they know nobody will pay for random cancelled movies not attached to any IP like Larrikins. They don't want to sell these movies off because if Netflix buys it and it becomes a hit it's basically a career ender for the exec that pulled the plug.
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It's a stupid thing to focus on really. Warner Bros shopped offers, all were too low and then they countered saying they needed $80 million to make this not a waste of their time. If the tax write off numbers are true, it means that this movie cost them like $110 million to make.
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The part where it doesn't pass the sniff test is the studio writes off the expenses whether or not they sell the movie.
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I loved Looney Tunes Back in Action so fricking much kinobros, it was a box office failure but is still a cult hit til this day, imagine if WB completely memory holed it
!kino
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Lmao Brendan Fraser would do that movie
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The car stopping midair because it ran out of gas is a kino joke
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Unfortunate
But tbf…would it have been all that good? I mean, I would hope that it would, but you never know with modern Hollywood
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I just like will forte
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Truly a missed opportunity here
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The promo images actually looked like it was well animated or at least had an appealing art-style if it was just toonboom puppets.
That's probably the main reason it had to die
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I think it has a greater chance of being good because Warner forgot about this movie being made due to the Barbie movie being made at the same time
I saw the crew reel (that Warner doesn't want on the internet) and everyone working on it seemed super hyped
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lol i had no idea this was even a movie
the new yorker did it first though
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Nice! Thanks.
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Looks like shit
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Dont they have their own streaming service?
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Looks like kino, what a shame
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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