Comedian/actor Will Forte’s new film, Coyote vs. Acme, will be released on Aug. 28, 2026.
Variety reported that Ketchup Entertainment bought the completed, live-action and animated hybrid film from Warner Bros. Discovery in March 2025 (for reportedly around $50 million). “Coyote vs. Acme” — about Looney Tunes stalwart Wyle E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation for all its faulty tools in his pursuit of the Road Runner — was shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery in 2023 after it was completed. The movie was greenlit by the previous regime for the streaming service HBO Max, but the team led by WBD’s CEO David Zaslav decided to abandon that strategy and focus on theatrical releases instead.
The Hollywood Reporter quoted Forte during the film’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con as saying: “I’m pretty speechless. It blows my mind. You think back to the journey this movie has taken. I had kind of given up hope at a certain point, so this is amazing.”
SDCC moderator Paul Scheer added that “this movie was not supposed to come out!” and then rolled a brief clip from the film, in which Wyle recalls all of the Acme products that failed him in his pursuit of the Road Runner — intercut with clips from the classic Road Runner animated shorts — while Johnny Cash’s rendition of “Hurt” played underneath.
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