{"id":318929,"date":"2026-03-03T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:46:08","slug":"how-will-forte-felt-about-the-shelving-of-coyote-vs-acme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318929\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Forte Felt About the Shelving of \u2018Coyote vs. Acme\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/640e5f19bdee0a09f7c42c3482125e7714-will-forte.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"TV Academy\u2019s Inaugural Televerse Festival - TV Getaway With Phil Rosenthal &amp; Will Forte\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Amy Sussman\/Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmm9tr95a000i0jhrdshk4e3z@published\" data-word-count=\"132\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/coyote-vs-acme-cancelled-warner-bros-reactions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coyote vs. Acme<\/a> got shelved, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/coyote-vs-acme-will-forte-response.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Forte<\/a> had little cartoon smoke clouds coming out of his ears. Okay, not really. But he did tell <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/will-forte-felt-white-hot-anger-coyote-vs-acme-shelved-11910309\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that he felt a \u201cwhite hot anger\u201d over the movie being canned for a tax write-off in November 2023, which is basically the same thing. \u201cExtreme frustration, fiery frustration, a lot of anger, white hot anger,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/will-forte-felt-white-hot-anger-coyote-vs-acme-shelved-11910309\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> of his emotions at the time. \u201cBut then ultimately, that\u2019s mixed with pride in this movie we\u2019ve done. And also, who knows? Everything happens for a reason, and it is certainly possible that the crazy journey that this movie is taking will help get more eyes on it, because it\u2019s a story people know about a little bit. But I don\u2019t think we needed this crazy journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmm9ugx4h001r3b7cph7jplq2@published\" data-word-count=\"140\">Coyote vs. Acme was originally scheduled to premiere sometime in 2023, first during the summer, then delayed to November. But once November came, it was seemingly all over for Will E. Coyote. Warner Bros. shared that it would no longer be releasing the film, along with\u00a0Batgirl\u00a0and\u00a0Scoob Holiday Haunt, in order to receive a $30 million tax write-off. The movie was already finished and had received good reviews from test screenings, so the decision to call it off left Forte confused. But once he got a chance to watch the movie, he fought harder to get the movie back on the big screen. \u201cI got to see it. I love it. I was\u00a0so\u00a0proud of it,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIt was so maddening because it was this beautiful, special little movie that was something I would\u2019ve been able to share with my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Amy Sussman\/Getty Images When Coyote vs. Acme got shelved, Will Forte had little cartoon smoke clouds coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,727,130232,146,85,46,397,43,158810,2223,42970],"class_list":{"0":"post-318929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-coyote-vs-acme","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-thats-not-all-folks","17":"tag-warner-bros","18":"tag-will-forte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}