ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green about the film. Green discussed his work’s mix of live-action and effects, a Road Runner debate his team had,

It might seem summer has gotten boring by this point in time at the box office with Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day refusing to relinquish its grip on No. 1 in its fifth go-round with $18M (-54%) but it’s not.

"Coyote vs. Acme" is a live-action and animation hybrid that brings Looney Tunes into the courtroom. The film features Wile E.

Dave Green's tone-perfect Looney Tunes resurrection combines classic cartoon stars with humans Will Forte and John Cena as combative lawyers in a case against Amazon — er, Acme.

It started back in 1990, when writer Ian Frazier wrote a satirical story called "Coyote V. Acme" for The New Yorker, which imagined a court case in which Wile E. Coyote seeks compensation for the injuries and suffering Acme's products have caused him.

'Coyote vs. Acme' finally opens in theaters Aug. 28, 2026. Here's what Will Forte and Lana Condor have said about the film's long road to release.

Few movies have had a journey to the big screen quite like Coyote vs. Acme. After Warner Bros. shelved the completed film in 2023, fans spent years campaigning for its release. Now that the movie has finally reached audiences,

The project came with a compelling angle already in place: It was inspired by Ian Frazier’s 1990 humor piece in The New Yorker, “ Coyote v. Acme ,” which imagined the Looney Tunes mainstay Wile E. Coyote taking the Acme Corporation to court for its many defective products that had repeatedly thwarted his pursuit of the Road Runner.

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