Three years after Warner Bros. canned Coyote vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes feature film that was given a new lease on life by Ketchup Entertainment debuted with an estimated $15.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend. For the fifth weekend in a row, the AP reports, Spider-Man: Brand New Day topped the North American box office. It grossed $22.2 million in US and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, bringing its worldwide total to $2.33 billion and making it the fourth highest-grossing film of all time. Coyote vs. Acme, which had been relegated to the dust heap, fared best of the newcomers, debuting in second place.
It was a hard-earned opening. In 2023, Warner Bros. canceled any release of the completed Coyote vs. Acme, preferring to take a tax write-off on a movie originally produced for HBO Max. Based on Ian Frazier's "Shouts and Murmurs" New Yorker column, the film starring Will Forte is about Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation for its faulty products. It's a hybrid of live action and animation that cost $70 million to make. Despite good test screening scores, Warner Bros. opted to ax the film. After an outcry, the studio put it up for sale. Last year, Ketchup acquired worldwide distribution rights for about $50 million. Reviews and audience scores have been good. "'Coyote vs. Acme' is finally, gloriously, in theaters now," director Dave Green said on social media Friday. "Which means one thing. WE WON."
With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak:
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day, $22.2 million.
- Coyote vs. Acme, $15.5 million.
- The Odyssey, $14.3 million.
- Insidious: Out of the Further, $10.1 million.
- The Dog Stars, $8 million.
- Buddy, $5.4 million.
- The End of Oak Street, $5 million.
- PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, $4.9 million.
- Mutiny, $2.8 million.
- Tony, $2.2 million.
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