#or OPPENCOYOTE

[mralbertinho]

Adding two random tidbits

WB already had a movie they planned to release on July 21, before they moved Barbie onto that date: Coyote vs Acme, the fourth Looney Tunes Live Action movie (after the two Space Jams and Back In Action), that's set up as a comedic courtroom drama where Wile E. Coyote comes to the Real World to - I shit you not - sue the ACME Corporation over faulty and dangerous explosives. As much as I love Barbenheimer, WB ROBBED US OF TWO WILDLY DIFFERENT MOVIES ABOUT THE DANGERS OF EXPLOSIVES PREMIERING ON THE SAME DAY.

Also, on the point of studios trying to recreate Barbenheimer again, from @incipientdreamer

While we're all talking about both the WGA/SAG strikes and Barbenheimer, I hope everyone realises that the entire reason this exists is because Christopher Nolan stood up to Warner Bros against pushing their entire cinematic slate onto streaming in 2021, by taking his next film to another studio.

Then, as an act of petty revenge, they decided to deliberately move their single biggest movie of 2023 (and arguably WB's biggest non-Batman/Harry Potter movie in DECADES) directly onto his release date.

So no, the Barbie Marketing isn't "so good it helped another movie". The Barbie Marketing Machine was specifically designed to get back at someone who dared to stand up against WB executives.

It was a calculated move of malice by soulless corporate fuckeroonies.