Daffy Duck and Porky Pig’s The Day The Earth Blew Up movie is getting a theatrical release in North America, because of Ketchup Entertainment!

The Looney Tunes fandom gained’t be dropping any anvils on Ketchup Entertainment anytime quickly! We’re within the studio’s debt after it swooped in and purchased the North American rights to Warner Bros. Animation’s The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie for a theatrical release. The upcoming animated function stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (each voiced by Eric Bauza), with Petunia Pig (Candi Milo) rounding out the trio. The movie finds Daffy and Porky studying that aliens are plotting to overhaul the planet, which leads the pair to place their variations apart and assist save the world.

Kevin Costello directs The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie from a script he co-wrote with Alex Kirwan and Peter Browngardt. The Day the Earth Blew Up will received a world premiere on the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. At the time, The Hollywood Reporter famous that this was “the first fully animated Looney Tunes feature to debut with a theatrical run.” The earlier Looney Tunes options to obtain theatrical releases had been all combos of live-action and animation: Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and Space Jam: A New Legacy. The Day the Earth Blew Up is fortunate to make it out into the world at all on this present period of Warner Bros., which has seen a number of tasks – together with Batgirl, some Scooby Doo tasks, and even the Looney Tunes movie Coyote vs. Acme – get scrapped as tax write-offs.

“The Day the Earth Blew Up is a historical moment for the Looney Tunes franchise, and we are proud to be partnering with Warner Bros. Animation to bring this film to audiences theatrically. We cannot wait for audiences of all ages to experience one of the smartest animated films in recent years,” shared Gareth West, CEO of Ketchup Entertainment.

It is a reduction to see The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie obtain higher therapy than Coyote vs. Acme. I imply that in how The Day The Earth Blew Up will see the sunshine of day as a substitute of being shelved by WB regardless of constructive early phrases in regards to the mission. It’s been ages since we’ve seen the Looney Tunes in a extra conventional 2D animated journey on the silver display screen, and I’ll be there on day one to test it out. I’ve been obsessive about the Looney Tunes since childhood, with Daffy Duck securing a spot in my Top 3 animated characters.

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Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a JoBlo.com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. He began with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, earlier than launching the companion YouTube sequence Animation Movies Revisited. He’s additionally the host of the Talking Comics Podcast, a personality-driven audio present specializing in comedian books, movie, music, and extra. You’ll hardly ever catch him with out headphones on his head and pancakes on his breath.