The backstory to how this movie got to a theater near you could be a movie. And it might be someday, but Hollywood won’t make it.
Hollywood isn’t making a lot of movies these days. Production has moved away, to Texas, to Georgia, to Canada. California has the natural environment that created Hollywood in the first place, but the business environment has driven much of Hollywood away and is strangling what’s left of it. It’s so bad that President Donald Trump recently stepped in to try to save the industry that’s been weaponized against him.
Hollywood has mostly forgotten that its primary purpose is to entertain.
Warner Bros. had a movie it spent $70 million to create, finished in 2022. It brought some big names together – James Gunn as writer and producer, stars John Cena and Will Forte, and even bigger names in Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, and all the other classics from Looney Tunes. Warner didn’t just launch production on this film, it went through the entire process, and had a finished work that was ready for theaters. It was called "Coyote vs. Acme," pitting the hapless Wile E. Coyote against the megacorp from which he'd bought so much failed gear over the decades.
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