EXCLUSIVE: Ketchup Entertainment‘s pickup of Warner Bros Animation’s The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie shall be debuting in theaters on February 28, 2025.
The movie, which was initially conceived for Max, made its world premiere on the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June, when it acquired excessive reward from critics. Deadline told you first about Ketchup’s acquisition.
The movie will make its North American premiere Friday on the Animation Is Film competition, the place it is going to qualify for the Best Animated Feature Oscar race.
The pic was directed by Pete Browngardt and follows Porky Pig and Daffy Duck teaming up once more, this time confronted with the specter of an alien invasion.
“For generations, the Looney Tunes have held a smooth spot within the hearts of followers the world over, together with my very own,” Ketchup Entertainment CEO Gareth West mentioned. “It’s a real pleasure to convey into theaters Peter Browngardt’s hilariously good, emotional, and gorgeously rendered story for followers and movie lovers of all ages to expertise a completely new and unique cinematic journey with our buddies, Porky and Daffy.”
The Day The Earth Blew Up is introduced by Ketchup Entertainment and produced by Warner Bros Animation, and written by Darrick Bachman, Browngardt, Kevin Costello, Andrew Dickman, David Gemmill, Alex Kirwan, Ryan Kramer, Jason Reicher, Michael Ruocco, Johnny Ryan and Eddie Trigueros. Sam Register and Browngardt are EPs.
Alex Kirwan is supervising producer, Michal Baum is line producer, Nick Cross is artwork director and Aaron Spurgeon is manufacturing designer.
Unlike Coyote vs. Acme, which was pulled from theatrical launch by Warner Bros amid a swath of value reducing, the good news is that The Day the Earth Blew Up is seeing the sunshine of day. Sales had been launched on the American Film Market by GFM Animation.
Content Source: deadline.com