Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Look up “cartoon villain” in the dictionary, and you’re likely to find a picture of David Zaslav.
Since taking over Warner Bros. Discovery, he’s orphaned not one, but two feature-length Looney Tunes projects. Last November, there was the live-action/animated hybrid “Coyote vs.
Acme,” which he gave the “Batgirl” treatment (except, unlike that film, this one was done, so the tax write-off reasoning doesn’t track).
Lower profile but no less disappointing, WB Animation’s hand-drawn Porky Pig and Daffy Duck stand-alone “The Day the Earth Blew Up” was made for Max, but went on the block last fall.
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