Warner Bros to demolish Looney Tunes building after scrubbing classic cartoons

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Warner Bros. killed a Looney Tunes movie starring John Cena. Now it’s back from the dead

Just like in a Looney Tunes cartoon, a bruised and battered Wile E. Coyote may soon limp back to fight another day. A year and a half after David Zaslav-run Warner Bros. Discovery shelved the movie “Coyote vs. Acme,” the studio is in talks to sell the film to North Hollywood-based film finance and distribution … Read more

Commentary: ‘Looney Tunes’ has been removed from Max. This is why it feels like an attack

In a time so choked with bad news that bad news has to fight to be heard, the bad news that Max, the streaming arm of Warner Bros. Discovery, has stripped the original “Looney Tunes”/”Merrie Melodies” shorts from its lineup is bad enough to have broken through the noise. This removal, adding — or subtracting … Read more

Looney Tunes fans call out HBO Max for ‘stupid’ decision to delete original cartoons

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