Assuming the Earth doesn’t actually blow up before February 28, 2025, you’ll have an opportunity to watch “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” in theaters. It almost didn’t happen.

That’s not all folks! From Ketchup Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation, director Pete Browngardt, and the creative team behind the award-winning “Looney Tunes Cartoons” comes THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE, a brand new buddy comedy starring one of the greatest comedic duos in history–Porky Pig and Daffy Duck! This richly-crafted, hand-drawn 2D animated adventure marks the first fully-animated feature-length film in Looney Tunes history, told on a scope and scale that’s truly out of this world.

For context, this film was one of the ones Warner Bros. Discovery had originally planed to permanently shelve for tax purposes. It seems they thought they could make more money from it by burying it than releasing it. A second Warner Bros. animation, Coyote vs. Acme, wasn’t so lucky, and will likely never see the light of day. Editorially speaking, we think there’s something seriously broken about an industry that makes money by killing its own product. The film was rescued from oblivion by distributor Ketchup Entertainment back in August. Discovery still has about $45B in debt to pay down, so they’re desperate to take any tax write-off they can. Artists, animators, designers, actors, writers, editors, sound engineers and hundreds of other creatives poured their hearts and souls into this picture, and it shows. It would have been criminal for this movie to have been locked away, never to see the light of day.

Rating: TBA
Starring Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Wayne Knight, and Laraine Newman
Directed By Peter Browngardt, Produced By Michael Baum, Alex Kirwan
Executive Produced By Peter Browngardt, Sam Register

In theaters February 28, 2025