'The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie' Gums Home To HBO Max The Long Way Around

It’s the end of the road as we know it, and we’re all having a good time

A Warner Bros.-made film is still a Warner Bros.-made film after all. The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, the first fully-original fully-animated Looney Tunes movie was originally announced as made for Cartoon Network’s now-defunct ACME Night and HBO Max in 2021. Less than a year later the Warner Bros. Discovery regime scrapped it and a handful of other well-documented projects, some of which went elsewhere, some of which still hasn’t been made. The Day The Earth Blew Up ends up finding new distributors, namely Ketchup Entertainment domestically, for a theatrical release, which it got on March 14. And now, despite Ketchup films allegedly tending to land on Peacock and Paramount+, The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie will complete its journey to HBO Max on Friday, June 27, with a linear HBO premiere the next night, Saturday June 28 at 8 PM Eastern.

And yes it seems Deadline is expecting the HBO Max rebrand reversion, announced for summer to happen by the end of June. There is a lot of the films over the last two years I could compare its window to. It’ll be 105 days for the record. It’s certainly on par with Disney’s theatrical-to-Disney+ windows lately. I admittedly haven’t been good covering the A24 windows, so I won’t…well except the Oscar-winning film The Brutalist having released in December and only gotten to Max this past May 16. But there’s one film that’s Warner Bros. Pictures-released that happens to have been released the very week before The Day the Earth Blew Up and makes it perfect for comparison. Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo, is set to make its way to HBO this weekend, making for a 77 day or 11 week wait. That’s four weeks shorter than The Day the Earth Blew Up and with five weeks to wait.

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As a refresher The Day The Earth Blew Up stars Eric Bauza as both Porky and Daffy, where their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!) … that is if they don’t drive each other totally looney in the process. They team with Petunia, voiced by Candi Milo, to save the world in the familiar Looney Tunes manner. The film also stars Peter MacNicol as The Invader, Fred Tatasciore as the scientist and Farmer Jim, Wayne Knight as Homeless Man, and Laraine Newman as the landlady. It is directed by Pete Browngardt who writes with Darrick Bachman, Kevin Costello, Andrew Dickman, David Gemmill, supervising producer Alex Kirwan, Ryan Kramer, Jason Reicher, Michael Ruocco, Johnny Ryan and Eddie Trigueros. Browngardt also executive produces with Sam Register, the president of Warner Bros. Animation. The film made back its budget, earning $15 million globally, giving Ketchup the leverage to rescue another Looney Tunes film, the hybrid Coyote vs. Acme, starring Bauza as Wile E. Coyote and releasing next year.

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Source: Deadline