Current Events > Coyote vs. Acme starring John Cena turned into a tax write off by Discovery.

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Necronmon
11/09/23 5:46:32 PM
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https://x.com/JohnDiLillo/status/1722725043795280200?s=20

Zaslav the greedy ruins dreams again...@#$#$#
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Irony
11/09/23 5:51:28 PM
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MatzoTov
11/09/23 5:53:08 PM
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BlazinBlue88
11/09/23 5:53:50 PM
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I did not realize they were making this movie and now I'm upset.

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Hayame_Zero
11/09/23 10:18:58 PM
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The movie is finished and people who have seen it have compared it not to Space Jam, but to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This is bullshit.

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Hayame_Zero
11/09/23 10:23:46 PM
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And this is literally like two days after Zaslav complained about struggling to reach children and animation fans with Max...

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Solar_Crimson
11/09/23 10:29:09 PM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
The movie is finished and people who have seen it have compared it not to Space Jam, but to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This is bullshit.
WTF

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BunkerBoy
11/09/23 10:29:56 PM
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BlazinBlue88 posted...
I did not realize they were making this movie and now I'm upset.

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ScazarMeltex
11/09/23 10:30:45 PM
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This kind of shit should be illegal.

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VeggetaX
11/09/23 10:30:54 PM
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Coyote as in the Coyote and the Road Runner?

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Gamespoht
11/09/23 10:33:05 PM
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Why didn't SJ2 get canceled instead, this reality sucks

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Hayame_Zero
11/09/23 10:33:18 PM
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VeggetaX posted...
Coyote as in the Coyote and the Road Runner?
Yeah, it was a courtroom comedy about Coyote suing the ACME Corporation. It was written by James Gunn and John Cena played the CEO of ACME.

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CE_gonna_CE
11/09/23 10:33:33 PM
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I mean, no one would have seen him anyway

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Bat178
11/09/23 10:39:22 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

The current CEO hates Cartoons.

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Bass
11/09/23 10:39:49 PM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
Yeah, it was a courtroom comedy about Coyote suing the ACME Corporation. It was written by James Gunn and John Cena played the CEO of ACME.
Fuck Warner Bros. This actually sounds amusing.

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PiOverlord
11/09/23 10:56:46 PM
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Very sad :(

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Tyranthraxus
11/09/23 11:00:12 PM
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Bass posted...
Fuck Warner Bros. This actually sounds amusing.

Warner Bros made the movie. Zaslav is the one who shit canned it.

I feel like if you do this it should become public domain. Hopefully someone on the crew leaks it.

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Gamespoht
11/09/23 11:07:13 PM
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This merger has literally no upsides other than making executives richer

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FortuneCookie
11/09/23 11:12:27 PM
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There was no chance that this was going to be good, but it's pretty lousy to see a studio allowed to make money from not releasing movies. Since this is coming out of tax payer money, WB is literally charging us for movies we're never gonna watch.

"You don't need to watch Meet the Spartans 2. We've already deducted the price of admission from your bank account."
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BakonBitz
11/10/23 2:08:25 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
There was no chance that this was going to be good
Eh...if people who saw it were legit comparing it to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, then I'd be pretty pissed that the general public would never get to see this.

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pegusus123456
11/10/23 2:12:30 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
There was no chance that this was going to be good
It was apparently getting scores of 90+ with test audiences.

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BurmesePenguin
11/10/23 2:14:02 AM
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What is coyote and what is acme?

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Umbreon
11/10/23 2:19:48 AM
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That's some bullshit.

BurmesePenguin posted...
What is coyote and what is acme?

My condolences for your childhood.

(Looney Tunes)

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pegusus123456
11/10/23 2:21:22 AM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
What is coyote and what is acme?
Looney Tunes. The premise is that Wile. E Coyote sues Acme for all of their products fucking up. Cena was going to play Acme's CEO.

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BurmesePenguin
11/10/23 2:29:02 AM
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Oh okay I thought coyote was like an opposing company.

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SomeLikeItHoth
11/10/23 2:30:14 AM
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Why yall mad over a childrens cartoon

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Chicken
11/10/23 3:26:04 AM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
What is coyote and what is acme?
UUA

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FortuneCookie
11/10/23 11:21:34 AM
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BakonBitz posted...
Eh...if people who saw it were legit comparing it to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, then I'd be pretty pissed that the general public would never get to see this.


pegusus123456 posted...
It was apparently getting scores of 90+ with test audiences.

As wooden as John Cena is, I struggle to see them finding a way to make it work. It'd be like having Who Framed Roger Rabbit? starring Steven Seagal.
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divot1338
11/10/23 11:26:45 AM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
The movie is finished and people who have seen it have compared it not to Space Jam, but to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This is bullshit.
Seriously we need to put a hit on this fkn guy.

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BurmesePenguin
11/10/23 11:27:51 AM
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Agonized_rufous
11/10/23 11:28:35 AM
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I hope it gets leaked

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Gamespoht
11/10/23 11:29:55 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
As wooden as John Cena is, I struggle to see them finding a way to make it work. It'd be like having Who Framed Roger Rabbit? starring Steven Seagal.
John isn't above laughing at himself and he's done animated work before which helps

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HBKick18
11/10/23 11:29:57 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
As wooden as John Cena is, I struggle to see them finding a way to make it work. It'd be like having Who Framed Roger Rabbit? starring Steven Seagal.
cena is a great comedic actor, it sounds like the only movie you've seen him in is the marine

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chaos_knight
11/10/23 11:30:22 AM
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Warner Bros has turned out shit for most of this year but the one movie that sounds interesting they just refuse to release to make it a tax writeoff? Hell, first time hearing this and I'm really interested to see it.

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Unsuprised_Pika
11/10/23 11:30:51 AM
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Tax write offs are stupid and evil.

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JuanCarlos1
11/10/23 11:31:26 AM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
Yeah, it was a courtroom comedy about Coyote suing the ACME Corporation. It was written by James Gunn and John Cena played the CEO of ACME.


Say waaaaaaaat? So glad I cancelled Max.

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FortuneCookie
11/10/23 11:51:44 AM
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HBKick18 posted...
cena is a great comedic actor, it sounds like the only movie you've seen him in is the marine

About ten minutes of Twelve Rounds and way too many episodes of Monday Night Raw. I really could have peaced out of watching pro wrestling back in 2003 and I wouldn't have missed much if anything.

I don't hate the guy. From what I know, he's a stand up dude and I appreciate his charity work. He just does nothing for me in front of a camera. But you're right in that I haven't seen his more recent stuff. If he's stepped up his game, good for him.

If this would have been legitimately funny, then I feel bad for the fans who would have missed out on it.
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Starks
11/10/23 11:54:17 AM
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I don't understand the point of shelving finished projects that will eventually leave the vault one day.

And then when the leaks occur, the IP owners usually shrug and wonder why they refused to make money.

It's a lot worse than pre-deciding a market doesn't want a particular car or product.

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BakonBitz
11/10/23 12:02:24 PM
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The only way I can see these tax write-off moves make sense is that they probably think they'll make back more from the write-off than the box office.

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InTheEyesOfFire
11/10/23 12:09:31 PM
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Wtf I would have totally watched this, and maybe even not high on first viewing.

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pegusus123456
11/10/23 3:56:58 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
About ten minutes of Twelve Rounds and way too many episodes of Monday Night Raw. I really could have peaced out of watching pro wrestling back in 2003 and I wouldn't have missed much if anything.

I don't hate the guy. From what I know, he's a stand up dude and I appreciate his charity work. He just does nothing for me in front of a camera. But you're right in that I haven't seen his more recent stuff. If he's stepped up his game, good for him.

If this would have been legitimately funny, then I feel bad for the fans who would have missed out on it.
Check out the newer Suicide Squad movie or Peacemaker. He's funny in both, but he does some solid dramatic work in Peacemaker too.

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mach25687
11/10/23 4:01:27 PM
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Man this and the Live services shit WB is doing is destroying the company. What next?

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StealThisSheen
11/10/23 4:01:34 PM
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HBKick18 posted...
cena is a great comedic actor, it sounds like the only movie you've seen him in is the marine

This. He's fantastic in Peacemaker.

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StealThisSheen
11/10/23 4:03:49 PM
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Also, remember Zaslav is the guy who openly said his strategy was to cancel other projects, especially higher budget ones, because he believes they can best make money by focusing on a "90 Day Fiance Universe" since it costs them next to nothing to make.

And he's done it. They have:
90 Day Fiance
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way (which is basically exactly the same as the original show, but they now segregate based on whether the people are currently in America or not, to get two shows out of it.)
90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk (literally just replaying an episode of one of the other two shows, but having people from those shows pretend to watch them "for the first time" and make comments)

and like a dozen other ones. But they have three versions of the exact same show, and people watch it because we're in the darkest timeline.

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TomClark
11/10/23 4:06:38 PM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
Yeah, it was a courtroom comedy about Coyote suing the ACME Corporation. It was written by James Gunn and John Cena played the CEO of ACME.

Holy shit, that sounds excellent.

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Foppe
11/11/23 1:36:38 PM
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BakonBitz posted...
The only way I can see these tax write-off moves make sense is that they probably think they'll make back more from the write-off than the box office.
They expect to get $30M for the write off.

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lilORANG
11/11/23 1:39:56 PM
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Perhaps it's a problem that the tax laws allow something like this at all?

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