Coyote vs. ACME: The Next Disaster?

I had heard back in 2018 or so--before I got into cartoons--that a "ACME" movie was in the works. Apparently, it's still happening. It is called Coyote vs. ACME, and was supposed to come out July 21st, but got shelved for Barbie.

It is apparently half-live-action, and stars John Cena. According to comicbook.com (what does this have to do with comic books?):

In Coyote vs. Acme, after every ACME Corporation product backfired on Wile E. Coyote, in his pursuit of the Road Runner, he hires an equally-unlucky human attorney to sue the company. When Wile E.'s lawyer finds out that his former law firm's intimidating boss is ACME's CEO, he teams up with Wile E. to win the court case against him.

The film is said to be based on the fictional The New Yorker article "Coyote v. Acme" by author Ian Frazier. Published in 1990, the piece imagined a lawsuit brought about by Wile E. Coyote against the Acme Company who provided him with various devices and tools to aid his pursuit of Road Runner. The devices frequently malfunctioned, leading to the humorous failures, injuries, and sight gags Road Runner cartoons are known for.

It has already been rated (PG), so a release date will be very soon.

I can not imagine this will be any good. I avoided Space Jam: New Legacy and it's supposed to suck (I'm mixed on the original). But I'm more concerned because most of the revivals of the last ten years have been terrible.

But here's the thing: if it's going to be at least an hour-and-a-half, will it be Wile E. miming the whole time? Will they have a neo-Blanc intellectual voice? And will the Road Runner even be in it? 

A bet: a free pizza that it doesn't come out!

Looney Tunes: Collector's Choice Volume 2 Announced

I was just browsing the Internet Animation Database Forums and found out that, apparently, another volume of Collector's Choice comes out November 28th. I have not seen this on Cartoon Research, but there is a cover, so it must be real! If this is some perverse, demented prank, why the 28th?

I really liked the first volume. I was so happy that there was a bunch of Art Davis, one of the wackiest nuts in cartoondom. For once they have cartoons you want to see, and not discs devoted to Buddy and Beans, or random topics.

There is nothing saying what's on there yet, but a Reddit user has a wishlist, which isn't a lot to my liking (too much Thirties and Sixties). Why Leghorn Swoggled is still not on DVD is criminal, since it is the funniest of all the Foghorn Leghorn series. A fan-favorite we'll probably never see is Hare-Breadth Hurry, which Jerry Beck hates. And if you're smart you've noticed how much the collections--especially a certain piece of "gold"--revolve around his interests (Clampett, Bosko, etc...). You will probably say "Well, I hate it too!", but my father and his late cousin were excited when it came on, so somebody likes it.

I commented on the thread with "All I Want for Christmas is You", which no one thinks is funny, except me.

Keep checking for updates on Warnermania!

No Terrytoons

(Late) sad news Tuesday, when Jerry Beck finally got to telling the world about why there will probably never be a Terrytoons revival. I've got to say I'm not too enthusiastic about such a thing in the first place. After all, recent reboots of Golden Age properties are usually so-so, mostly because the modern "cartoon" revolves around clever dialogue, which in most cases leads to tediousness in a medium that demands action (*cough cough* Looney Tunes Cartoons *cough cough*). So that's fine. 

What I was actually upset to hear was this:

[In] 2009 I pitched CBS Home Video – first on the idea of doing a set of Terrytoon classics (in the style of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection). That morphed into the idea of doing a DVD set of Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures...

For now, the bottom line is this: the Paramount/Viacom/CBS conglomerate sees no financial incentive to reviving the Terrytoon library. There is no one there with an open mind to even try. It doesn’t matter how much we might love these characters or the films – to the company they are simply old children’s fodder...

So there will most likely never be a Paul Terry Treasures. Oh well. I know that a monster amount of Terrytoons is on video-sharing sites, but a restored DVD with commentaries and documentaries would be delightful (no Leonard Maltin introductions, please). The problem is that nobody gives a hoot about them, except us weirdos. At least some pop culture junkies will buy Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM stuff. But Mighty Mouse? I thought that was an Andy Kaufman sketch!

For us DVD and Blu-Ray collectors, it looks like the end of the road. We got the good stuff; all of Disney, all of UPA, roughly 45% of Warners, and the best of MGM are all on DVD and/or Blu-Ray, so we should have our bellies full. And Terrytoons is on VHS, if you're suicidally depressed about it. But overall, as long as the internet is there, there is Mighty Mouse, there is Heckle and Jeckle, and there are infantile men talking about cartoons.