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Actor Will Forte says completed “Coyote vs. Acme” film is likely never coming out

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A verdict seems to have been reached in the case of “Coyote vs. Acme,” the Warner Bros. Discovery courtroom comedy based on the popular Looney Tunes character. 

The movie will likely never come out, lead actor Will Forte said in a statement on social media Thursday.

Originally slated for a theatrical release last July, the film was reportedly shelved in November last year, according to Deadline

Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas alleged last year that the hiatus was part of a wider pattern of shelving films for tax breaks. 

“The [Warner Bros. Discovery] tactic of scrapping fully made films for tax breaks is predatory and anti-competitive,” Castro wrote on social media in November.

Following fan and industry outrage over the film’s unceremonious fate, Netflix, Amazon and Paramount screened the film and “submitted handsome offers,” none of which were accepted, The Wrap reported earlier this month. 

“When I first heard that our movie was getting ‘deleted,’ I hadn’t seen it yet,” Forte wrote, addressing the film’s cast and crew. “So I was thinking what everyone else must have been thinking: this thing must be a hunk of junk. But then I saw it. And it’s incredible.”

The SNL alum referenced the movie’s high score among test audiences, and he lamented the studio’s decision to bring the project to a premature end.

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Will Forte attends the premiere “MacGruber” in Los Angeles, California, in December 2021.

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“The people who paid for this movie can obviously do whatever they want with it,” Forte wrote, adding, “It doesn’t mean I have to like it … Or agree with it.”

“Please know that all the years and years of hard work, dedication and love that you put into this movie shows in every frame,” he concluded.

Based on a satirical 1990 New Yorker article by Ian Frazier, the film stars Forte and John Cena alongside the animated Wile E. Coyote, who is suing the Acme Corporation over oft-backfiring products with which Coyote attempted to capture the Road Runner in the classic Looney Tunes cartoons.

“Mr. Coyote states that on occasions too numerous to list in this document he has suffered mishaps with explosives purchased of Defendant,” reads the humor piece, written in the style of a court docket.

This is the third time Warner Bros. Discovery has axed a film in its final stages, with “Scoob! Holiday Haunt” and “Batgirl” being trimmed off the studio’s balance sheet in 2022.

“As the Justice Department and @FTC revise their antitrust guidelines they should review this conduct,” Castro wrote in his November social media post. “As someone remarked, it’s like burning down a building for the insurance money.”





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Doug Redenius’ lifelong fascination with James Bond movies has led him to collect and restore dozens of vehicles used by the British secret agent and the bad guys he pursued, from tripped-out sportscars, submersibles and motorcycles, to planes, helicopters and paragliders. Correspondent Lee Cowan takes a spin through spy movie history, visiting with 007’s vehicles, many of which are currently on display at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

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Friday’s airstrike by the Israeli military that killed Hassan Nasrallah, overall leader of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, in Beirut, Lebanon, along with the recent explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members, have now eliminated virtually all of the terrorist group’s senior commanders. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with CBS News contributors Andrew Boyd (former head of counter-terrorism operations at the CIA) and Michael Morrell (former acting CIA director) about what these latest developments mean for Israel, and for Iran.

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Parasocial relationships are those that are one-sided – like the fascination and devotion that fans hold for their favorite celebrities. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with journalist Jancee Dunn about her experience interviewing her hero, rock star Stevie Nicks; and with experts about how that intense fan-celebrity relationship speaks to the human condition.

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