Coyote vs. Acme Cast Threw a Funeral for Their Own Movie

Sometimes you gotta mourn what's gone. The cast and crew behind Coyote vs. Acme held what they called a "funeral screening" after Warner Bros. shelved the live-action-animation comedy, convinced it was headed straight to the vault with no exit plan.

The emotional sendoff made sense—these people poured months into a project that suddenly seemed dead on arrival. Nobody wants to watch their work disappear into corporate limbo.

The wild part? The story doesn't end there. There's actually light at the end of this tunnel, which makes the funeral ceremony even more bittersweet. Sometimes persistence and a little pressure changes things.

It's a reminder that even in a system stacked against creatives—where a major studio can just lock a whole movie away—the people who made it still care enough to show up and say goodbye. That's real.

Read the full story at Variety → https://variety.com/2026/film/news/coyote-vs-acme-cast-funeral-screening-warner-bros-1236844790/