Looney Tunes is making a comeback, as the hybrid film Coyote vs. Acme has debuted in second place at the weekend box office with US$15.4 million, with Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day still going strong in first place even after its fifth weekend.
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Coyote vs. Acme, which hails from independent production house Ketchup Entertainment, garnered US$15.4 million from 3,575 North American screens over the weekend, adding to the US$5.3 million it gained on Friday. This marked the biggest debut ever for the studio, topping its previous Looney Tunes feature, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024).
The hybrid film was originally shelved by Warner Bros in 2023 as a tax write-off, sparking a wave of social media outrage, with Ketchup Entertainment subsequently acquiring the rights to the film for US$50 million in 2025. Directed by Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows), the film follows Wile E. Coyote as he enlists a billboard attorney to sue the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling him faulty products on his never-ending quest to catch the Road Runner. The hybrid film stars Eric Bauza as the voice of multiple Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, alongside Will Forte, Lana Condor and John Cena.
Sitting at the top of the weekend box office was Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which saw little signs of slowing down even after its fifth weekend. The massive film garnered another US$22.2 million, bringing its total domestic haul to US$891.5 million, and its worldwide total to US$2.332 billion. With this, the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed superhero flick has now become the fourth-highest-grossing movie at the all-time box office, surpassing 2025’s Ne Zha 2, which now sits at fifth place with US$2.27 billion.
Rounding off the top five earners this weekend was Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey at third place (US$14.3 million), Sony’s horror sequel Insidious: Out of the Further at fourth place (US$10.1 million), and the live-action adaptation of Peter Heller’s 2012 novel, The Dog Stars, at fifth place (US$8 million).
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