Internet Anger At WB May Have Saved John Cena’s ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 02: John Cena attends the Warner Bros. premiere of “The Suicide … [+] Squad” at Regency Village Theatre on August 02, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) Getty Images Who says getting mad on the internet doesn’t solve any problems? After several days of outrage that, once again, Warner Bros. planned to can a fully finished movie — the James Gunn-produced, John Cena-starring Coyote vs. Acme — for a $30 million tax write-off, the studio and its boss David Zaslav seem to have reversed course. Instead of the planned tax-based binning, Coyote vs. Acme will instead be shopped around to other distributors meaning someone else can buy it and release it in some format, either streaming or theatrical, according to The Wrap. Previously, the WB line was: “With this new direction, we have made the difficult decision not to move forward with ‘Coyote vs. Acme.’ We have tremendous respect for the filmmakers, casts, and crew, and are grateful for their contributions to the film.” But “not moving forward” meant deleting an entirely finished project, not canceling some sort of conceptual pitch. This led to mass outrage in the immediate resolution of the SAG-AFTRA strike which was meant, in part, to prevent against abusive studio behavior like this, albeit this exact kind of thing is not spelled out in the new WGA/SGA contracts, it seems. This happened before with WB for Batgirl, a DC movie that was finished and then scrapped for the write-off, but the line back then was that it was because it was bad and would damage the already struggling DC brand. This time, however, early test audiences and those who had seen it had nothing but praise for Coyote vs. Acme, and it felt like even more of…
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