For such a beloved franchise, Looney Tunes has had a bizarrely tough go of it over the previous few years.
In 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery scrapped the already accomplished Looney Tunes movie Coyote vs. Acme for a tax lower. That disheartening transfer managed to have a cheerful ending, although, as Ketchup Leisure acquired the movie in 2025, slating it for a 2026 launch. Ketchup Leisure additionally launched The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes film, one other movie Warner Bros. selected to buy round as a substitute of releasing itself.
Shelved ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ will lastly get a theatrical launch
Warner Bros. continued its efforts to distance itself from Looney Tunes in March of 2025, when it yanked your entire traditional Looney Tunes shorts library from HBO Max. Nevertheless, in August, the free, ad-supported streamer Tubi acquired 789 of these pulled Looney Tunes shorts. (Warner Bros. Discovery selected to maintain about 200 within the vault attributable to depictions of offensive stereotypes.) Within the two months for the reason that Looney Tunes acquisition, Tubi has reaped the rewards.
As Tubi’s head of acquisitions, Samuel Harowitz, informed Vulture, “By itself, Looney Tunes is a big win for us.”
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Since its arrival on Tubi, Looney Tunes has landed within the streamer’s high 10 best-performing sequence by viewing time. Initially launched theatrically, the traditional shorts have been repackaged into 30-minute episodes, with Tubi’s advert breaks occurring between every brief. The aim? Recreating the expertise of watching traditional cartoons on TV.
“In my thoughts, AVOD [ad-supported video on demand] and FAST [free ad-supported streaming TV] is ad-supported TV in a special sweet wrapper,” Harowitz informed Vulture. “I get to expertise it by means of the eyes of my youngsters but in addition evoke the identical emotional response I bear in mind as an 8-year-old sitting in entrance of a CRT Toshiba TV.”
Tubi hopes to maintain up the momentum of Looney Tunes‘ success. “We’re in energetic negotiations to make sure that Tubi could be the house of Looney Tunes for fairly some time. Possible years,” Harowitz informed Vulture.
Tubi’s consideration to Looney Tunes is only one a part of its give attention to traditional cartoons. Its library additionally consists of Tom and Jerry, The Pink Panther, Popeye the Sailor, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, making it the closest streaming equal to the Saturday morning cartoon really feel.
Looney Tunes is now streaming on Tubi.
