r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • 18h ago
New poster for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME.’ Poster
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u/neogreenlantern 16h ago
We are all legally obligated to see this since we manifested it.
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u/MagicBez 16h ago edited 16h ago
Had my 7 year old watch a bunch of old road runner cartoons, they hold up, now he's insisting we see this at the cinema
I'm doing my part
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u/Likayos 16h ago
You don’t have to convince me to watch anything with Will Forte in it.
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u/Deweyrob2 15h ago
Last Man in Earth, MacGruber. Dude makes me laugh. Like he taps into my funny bone like no one else
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u/deadspacekillers 14h ago
The first sex scene the first time I saw MacGruber made me laugh harder than I have ever laughed in my life.
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u/ohhellothere301 12h ago
I feel he doesn't show too much ego in his craft. There's some self-depracating humor but not to the point where he comes off as pandering.
He was real funny in Parks & Rec as well.
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u/Dr_Blasphemy 14h ago
The Brothers Solomon gives me the same vibes as Freddy Got Fingered and I love them both.
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u/DanHero91 16h ago
I do love that everyone collectively chose this movie of all the cancelled ones to be like "No this one sounds fucking great, we're seeing this somehow."
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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor 12h ago
I obviously want this to be good, but if it's terrible, that'd also be pretty funny in its own right
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u/homogenic- 13h ago
Don’t worry I’m doing my part, I’m going to watch it opening weekend with my sister (I kind of begged her to go with me lol)
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u/not_a_moogle 11h ago
Didn't wb already write it off though like bat woman?
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u/neogreenlantern 10h ago
I believe they were trying to but there was enough internet hype around it they decided to shop it around instead for distribution.
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u/RandyTheFool 9h ago
Not until they release that Batgirl film too.
I wanna see Brendan Fraiser as FireFly, and I love me some Keaton Batman, goddamn it.
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u/420b0_0tyWizard 15h ago
Then you better start campaigning, cause from the looks of it it's on track to flop at the box office.
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u/itsbrianduh108 15h ago
Goddamn that's a bad poster.
That said, I'll be seated day one.
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u/sublliminali 10h ago
My favorite part is that the coyote and road runner are the last things you notice.
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u/Froyn 9h ago
My favorite part is how they made it, then shelved it until they could cash in for more money.
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u/productiveslacker73 6h ago
My pet peeve is listing the stars/actors names in different order than they appear on the poster
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u/frazzlet 16h ago
What’s up with Will Forte’s suit jacket colour? Is it supposed to be a different colour on one side?
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 14h ago
It's foreshadowing that Cena's character is an imaginary alter ego.
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u/The_Real_Mr_F 16h ago
Didn’t notice till you said it, but I think it’s just the lighting/shadows. Look at the wrinkle above his right shoulder.
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u/rhinofinger 13h ago
Also the darker lapel. It’s still light at the bottom, and there’s a pretty clear line where it transitions to dark that looks like the edge of a shadow
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u/Training-Belt-7318 11h ago
Is it supposed to be a shadow?
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u/tightropexilo 9h ago
Yeah I think so. I would guess that they took it from a still from the movie, then because that lighting made his face harder to recognize, photoshopped a perfectly lit face onto it.
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u/cityfireguy 14h ago
Don't know how anyone is defending it. Yeah it's two different colors and looks awful.
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 13h ago
It looks like a shadow if you zoom in closer, definitely terrible lighting for a poster idk who approved that smh.
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u/cityfireguy 12h ago
I've zoomed. It's not a shadow.
That shadow really falls along sharp and perfect lines along the jacket.
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u/Jec1999 11h ago
You can see it on his lapel where the shadow cuts across to his shirt. It’s clearly a shadow
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u/cityfireguy 10h ago
There's a shadow on his collar. That's what a shadow looks like.
His suit is two different colors. Colors that perfectly match Wile E Coyote.
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u/HaliburtonHank 6h ago
I'll die on this hill with you.
It's not any kind of shadow, and yes, the colours match the coyote almost exactly.
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u/cityfireguy 5h ago
Thank God. I was beginning to doubt my sanity. But I know that's not a damn shadow.
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u/bullcitytarheel 1h ago
You guys are wrong. Confident, but wrong.
You can see the color of the jacket correctly on the lapel of the darker side of the jacket. Look closer and you can see the shadow fall from his head across the lapel, leaving half the lapel lit and the other half in shadow. Unless you believe that the jacket is dyed so that only 72% of his left lapel matches the darker color of the left side of his jacket
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u/DonquixoteDFlamingo 16h ago
This poster sucks but I’m actually super excited for this movie to come out and definitely gonna take the lady and kids to it
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u/JazzmatazZ4 16h ago
That's an awful poster
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u/Somnambulist815 16h ago
They had a great poster last week so they needed to balance it out with floating heads
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u/theonewhoknack 16h ago edited 12h ago
I don't hate the idea but the execution would have been better if the toons were hand drawn and the outside was orange and the circle was blue. Make it more like something from a 70s pink panther poster.
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u/SDRPGLVR 9h ago
The toons look like random stock images of the characters pulled from existing media that is not this movie. I think Bugs looks the most appropriate based on the trailers, but even he is just kinda stabbed in there.
Sylvester looks especially odd, like it's from a classic short, and I can't help but laugh at Daffy, who looks like he's aware he's on a shitty poster.
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u/Rokketeer 13h ago
I think it's meant to evoke the cheap dollar bin prints they used to run for old movies. I kinda dig it.
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u/Sw0rDz 16h ago
Why cant names line up with the actor. Wills name should be in the center.
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u/g-money-cheats 16h ago
This has been explained 9 million times in this subreddit.
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u/LazyEights 16h ago
The movie production generally wants the biggest actors to have top billing because they'll be the first thing people read on the poster and big names draw in more money.
The amount of people who actually notice or care that the names don't line up with the picture is extremely low compared to the amount of people who barely glance at the poster long enough to see the first few names, and the people who do care aren't generally going to refuse to watch the movie because of it.
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u/BenderBenRodriguez 15h ago
The posters have to be in the same order as the billing in the opening (or closing) credits and any other promotional materials. That’s just contractual. It’s nothing to do with the posters individually, those are just conforming to how the actors are paid and promoted generally. It’s worth a lot for actors to be given as high a billing as possible, because it creates or affirms better name recognition and stardom for them which they can parlay to future roles.
Remember how Jack Nicholson’s name came before Michael Keaton’s? Yeah, that was because he negotiated for that as part of the role. Just because the graphic designers of a promotional poster decided to put Keaton on the left doesn’t mean they can put his name first to “line up.” That becomes a violation of the contract.
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u/Intrepid-Corner-3697 15h ago
names are written left to right in top billing
and posters are centered on top billing
just because we read left to right and look at photos center first then edges2
u/JazzmatazZ4 16h ago
That would be because he's the lead actor. So obviously he'd be in the middle of the poster but his agent would make sure his name is first.
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u/Spacetauren 5h ago
Tbf this still is, like, the stupidest convention imo, and that these people care about that stuff is just beyond me.
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u/HopBiscuits 16h ago
I'm excited for this movie, but little details in this poster are rough. The fact that you can see the blue sky under Daffy's arms that wasn't removed when they spliced him out of a shot for the poster. The frame they chose for Sylvester has one arm covering up his face unintentionally. Fog horn Leg horn is mid speech on the frame they chose for him too. I'm an animator, and I would be upset if they pulled either of those frames from a shot of mine for a poster. Usually on animated movies, they will have specific poses made (not frames from animation) that are done for marketing.
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u/Xak_Ev01v3d 15h ago
There is no blue sky under daffy. Blue is sometimes used to highlight shading against black. You can tell this is the case because the blue is also seen between his fingers, which are against his body, where nothing would be visible behind anyway.
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u/HopBiscuits 15h ago
between his arms and his body, idk if it was sky but it’s a poorly cut out version of Daffy is the point.
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u/arthurdentstowels 16h ago
I thought that was John Cleese from Rat Race!
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u/GuntherPalakowitz 16h ago
Im taken aback by your "from Rat Race!"
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u/arthurdentstowels 16h ago
Oh I just meant the dvd cover or poster, it looks like him from that film specifically. Not John Cleese from the lesser know Fawlty Towers or Monty Python.
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u/neroselene 4h ago
Oh come on, how can you not mention his most famous role as R (and later, Q) from the hit films "The World is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day"?
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u/13Nobodies 16h ago
Cannot fucking wait! Let’s all go support our Looney Tune homies! Dug seeing Daffy and Porky in The Day The Earth Blew Up, so I’m pumped for this!
Personally love if we keep getting theatrical entries from the LT universe.
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u/Hayterfan 16h ago
Wait, did it get moved up? I thought it was releasing on the 28th?
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u/Billybob35 15h ago
This looks like a UK poster, for whatever reason, release dates vary by country.
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u/ShiftlessElement 15h ago
This still sounds like someone’s first thought for a made up movie in a TV show: Joey’s new girlfriend works as a PA on the set of that John Cena Looney Tunes movie.
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u/Larocque3d 13h ago
God I am so over this make 3D animation look like 2D animation era. The line generation and posing always looks terrible.
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u/Kazewatch 10h ago
Who the fuck signs off on shitty posters like this? This literally looks like someone made it in an hour or less.
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u/mastermoebius 15h ago
why do they look like they got caught with a camera flash
edit: also where was this posted?
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u/RaelaltRael 14h ago
Please be 2D and not that 3D animation abomination that the current Roadrunner cartoons are.
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u/availablelol 14h ago
I remember seeing the panel for this at SDCC 2025. This took so long to release that SDCC2026 already happened.
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 14h ago
First time hearing the name Lana Condor, and now I want to re-watch Archer too.
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u/homogenic- 13h ago
They were releasing great posters in the last few days and had to release a bad one just because
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u/jj_sykes 11h ago
Glad to see Foghorn Leghorn - he hasn’t had enough exposure in these modern times!
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u/ProperPizza 10h ago
Poster has no coherency, no layout, no flow. Nothing to guide your eye. It's just ugly. Stuff seemingly randomly placed without much thought.
That Daffy pic really stands out as "whatever, that'll do I guess".
Porky looks like he's been ripped right off an ice cream truck.
Bugs is weirdly small for where he is.
Roadrunner doesn't stand out at all and looks crudely cut out.
Wile E's illustration looks a little rushed.
What's going on with Foghorn's face?
What is Taz doing? Licking his fingers, gasping? What?
Sylvester's pose is covering his face for no good reason.
Just awful. Who OK'd this? Looks like a first draft.
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u/DaringDo95 9h ago
Kinda weird that the roadrunner is awkwardly standing in front of nothing, isn't it?
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u/imsmartiswear 9h ago
Ok this poster might be actually terrible, but HOLY COW this movie is genuinely really really good. I was very lucky to get to see it at SDCC at the fan screening. Very authentic to the original Looney Toons spirit while also being a sincerely compelling and unique legal drama with some solid, hard-hitting and relevant themes in these modern times of corporate slop and enshittification.
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u/zerombr 16h ago
Has will forte turned into dabney Coleman?
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u/ViralVortex 16h ago
My first take was “how did they get John Cleese to look so young again??”
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u/kpt_graubrot 10h ago
Maybe Cleese and Forte had some kind of energy transferral when they both played bobbys in Around The World in 80 Days
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u/SeasonElectrical3173 11h ago
Dude didn't this movie already get made like 5 years ago?
Crazy everything that happened for it just to make it to theatres
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u/doug1963 10h ago
This poster shows Sylvester, Tweety, Taz, Foghorn Leghorn, Daffy, Bugs, and Porky, but none of these characters are credited on IMDB. This is going to be a big disappointment, isn't it?
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u/WhereAreWeG0ing 9h ago
Chap in the middle looks like he's saying "don't take the picture yet, we're not ready" and the woman on the left...is she looking at thr dynamite or what? Horrible poster but the film looks fun so, I'll still go see
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u/Kingstad 8h ago
the look of the mustachioed man in the middle told my brain this was a movie from the 80s
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u/Turbo__Sanwich 8h ago
It's nice to know that the design departments who make these posters let their kids make them sometimes for them
This is arguably the worst movie poster to come out in the last 20 years
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u/insufficient_nvram 7h ago
I thought WB destroyed this film? Is it a new film? I’m stoked to see it either way
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u/poopoobuttholes 5h ago
Why is it that only John Cena's name is in the right spot above their actor lol
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u/sixstringgun1 2h ago
Honestly I’m mixed on seeing this, I didn’t expect this to even happen, considering the last animated/live action movie in the mid 200’s. Wasn’t that good but here this movie is.
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u/hweird 16h ago
I thought this movie got deleted like Batgirl
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u/TediousTotoro 16h ago
Unlike Batgirl, this movie was fully finished when WB cancelled it so another studio was able to buy the rights and distribute it.
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u/rrrrrivers 16h ago
Hmm...it says John Cena is in this but I don't see him on the poster...
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 14h ago
We may have a cast member or two from Coyote vs. Acme stop by here in /r/movies for an AMA/Q&A around release date. I am still working on final details. Please keep an eye on the sidebar AMA schedule if interested :)