'Coyote vs. Acme' Is Soaring at the Box Office After Warner Bros. Nearly Buried It

You've heard of a boycott. But what about a b-b-b-buycott? That's more or less the grassroots campaign that coalesced around 'Coyote vs. Acme,' director Dave Green's live-action/animation hybrid, which finally hit U.S. theaters on August 28 — almost three years after Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill it in a corporate cost-cutting initiative. For the unfamiliar, Wile E. Coyote is among pop culture's great victims of both spontaneous combustio… Few movies have had a stranger road to theaters than 'Coyote vs. Acme,' a film Warner Bros. once deemed not even worth releasing. The Looney Tunes hybrid became one of the most talked-about casualties of Hollywood's tax write-off era, canceled entirely before a public outcry eventually forced the studio's hand. That controversy has followed the...