[UPDATE] "The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" will reportedly be pulled from theaters this Wednesday

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UPDATE: The movie will continue to play in theaters this week!

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UPDATE

"The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" will reportedly be pulled from theaters this Wednesday

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I literally did not even know this movie was in theaters yet.
- I didnt know this existed
  
  Me neither. Did the studio forget to hire a marketing team?
- There was a thread a few weeks ago discussing the decline of theatres. The one, and only, suggestion from theater owners was to have a 90 day minimum theatre time before films moved to streaming/physical media.
  
  At the time that idea seemed silly to me. Usually if I want to see a film, it's opening weekend I see it. Maybe the second week, but usually before the second weekend.
  
  But this film is leaving theaters less than a week after release? I saw Mickey 17 was announced to be leaving before being in theaters for 2 weeks.
  
  I guess I understand the complaint from theatre owners now. Maybe 90 days is too long but shit you gotta draw a line somewhere. You gotta give films a chance if you want theatres to stay open.
  
  So many films post pandemic have their "Exclusively in theaters" taglines, but for how long?
  
  When Star Wars first came out it ran in the theaters for two years.
  
  Gone With The Wind ran at one theater in Georgia until 1969.
- It was released last Friday in the US, so this would be less than a week in the theaters. It was number 5 or so for the last week as well, so while it wasn't a monetary success out of the gate it wasn't like it pulled in zero dollars.
  
  Heck, word of mouth could have worked in its favor, but guess we will never know. At least it was released instead of thrown in the trash like Coyote vs ACME.
  
  Fucking Zaslav.
  
  I thought this was one of those straight to streaming movies. Had no clue there was gonna be a theatrical release.
- I found out about it yesterday when I walked by a theater and saw it on the schedule
Well at least it got released and not shelved for tax purposes.
Never heard of it, looked it up and apparently it just came out on the 14th. That's not even a full week till wednesday.
- Good. Fuck theatres
This isn't the same movie as the Wile E. Coyote movie they supposedly filmed, edited and basically have ready to release but decided to not release, is it?
- No, that's this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1756855/
  
  Supposed to be hysterical. Ah well.
  
  A story set in the ACME warehouse, the manufacturer of anything and everything
  
  Probably got sued by Amazon.
- Wow, I looked this up after reading your comment. What a sad situation.
Didn’t know this movie was out! Going to see it tomorrow before it’s gone.
Bad for theaters, good for 🏴‍☠️
- An absolute win then.

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