Looney Tunes’ Next Movie is Thankfully Coming to North America

Warner Bros. Discovery has been kind of a mess successful caller years, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to animation. But if there’s 1 agleam spot it’s that immoderate media has managed to beryllium saved from being completely killed to prevention money. One of those is the Looney Tunes movie The Day the Earth Blew Up, which volition thankfully beryllium hitting stateside theaters sometime successful the adjacent fewer months.

Days ago, Ketchup Entertainment revealed it’d acquired the North American rights to Day from worldwide distributor GFM Animation. So far, it’s lone played successful theaters implicit successful Germany and Switzerland, and a circumstantial day for different territories (including North America) hasn’t been set. Per Deadline, CEO Gareth West called the movie “a humanities infinitesimal for the Looney Tunes franchise, and we are arrogant to beryllium partnering with Warner Bros. Animation to bring this movie to audiences theatrically. We cannot hold for audiences of each ages to acquisition 1 of the smartest animated films successful caller years.”

The Day the Earth Blew Up features Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (both voiced by Eric Bauza) successful the pb roles. As lifelong friends and coworkers, the brace uncover signs of an penetration of aliens and zombies, and it falls to them and Petunia Pig to halt it. Aside from being saved from WBD’s scythe, the movie has the favoritism of being the archetypal first fully-animated theatrical Looney Tunes film to deed theaters. When it premiered astatine the Annecy International Animation Festival successful June, the movie got beauteous affirmative reactions from those who saw it, truthful here’s hoping it lives up to that praise (and gets to instrumentality astir successful theaters for a while) whenever Ketchup puts it down for a circumstantial date.

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