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News Coyote vs. Acme Coyote vs. Acme Will Make It to Theaters Thanks to Ketchup Entertainment Meep! MEEEEEEEEP! By Molly Templeton | Published on March 31, 2025 Screenshot: Max Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Max What a long, strange, treacherous road it’s been for Coyote vs. Acme. First announced in 2022, the then-Warner-Bros. film is based on a New Yorker piece in which Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Company on account of how its troubled products have hindered his attempts to catch the Road Runner. John Cena (The Peacemaker, pictured above) signed on to star as the lawyer representing Acme, and Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows) to direct. The screenplay is by Samy Burch, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter who co-wrote Todd Haynes’ May December; the film also stars Will Forte and Lana Condor. But then Warner Bros. did what Warner Bros. keeps doing, and shelved the film. The uproar was loud, fascinating, and continuous—and has finally led to a positive outcome. Today, Ketchup Entertainment picked up the film. In a statement quoted by The Hollywood Reporter, Ketchup CEO Gareth West said, “We’re thrilled to have made a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring this film to audiences worldwide. Coyote vs. Acme is a perfect blend of nostalgia and modern storytelling, capturing the essence of the beloved Looney Tunes characters while introducing them to a new generation. We believe it will resonate with both longtime fans and newcomers alike.” Ketchup also recently released The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, another casualty of Warner Bros.’ choices. According to Deadline, Coyote vs. Acme is likely to land in theaters in 2026.[end-mark] The post <i>Coyote vs. Acme</i> Will Make It to Theaters Thanks to Ketchup Entertainment appeared first on Reactor.

Column Babylon 5 Rewatch Babylon 5 Rewatch: “A Day in the Strife” A new Narn ambassador arrives to replace G’Kar, while an alien probe threatens to destroy Babylon 5… By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on March 31, 2025 Credit: Warner Bros. Television Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. Television “A Day in the Strife”Written by J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by David J. EagleSeason 3, Episode 3Production episode 303Original air date: November 20, 1995 It was the dawn of the third age… Sheridan and Ivanova are having a meeting with the Transport Pilots Association, which is loud and raucous and completely unproductive. One pilot mouths off at Sheridan, accusing the captain of hoarding weapons, while all he has is a metal rod, and it’s easy for Sheridan while sitting up at the podium. So Sheridan goes down into the crowd and gives the guy a PPG and takes his metal rod. When actually given the opportunity to put his money where his mouth is, the guy backs down rather quietly. (Sheridan had removed the power cell from the PPG he handed the guy, just in case he read him wrong.) Sheridan calls a recess. Counselor Na’Far arrives from Narn, along with his bodyguard, Ta’Lon (the Narn who was also kidnapped by the Streib with Sheridan). He has been sent by the Centauri to replace G’Kar. Sheridan, however, will not withdraw G’Kar’s asylum. If Na’Far wants G’Kar to leave, he’s got to convince G’Kar to do it himself. Garibaldi and Franklin are sharing a drink at Earhart’s. Franklin is exhausted, and isn’t even willing to ask a woman who’s obviously interested in him to dance. He’s then informed that he needs to work an additional shift in medlab and exhaustedly agrees to be there in two hours. He goes off to the bathroom, and when he comes back he’s full of vim and vigor and asks the woman to dance. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Na’Far reports to Mollari, asking the ambassador permission to speak directly to G’Kar. Mollari eventually accepts it but makes sure to humiliate the Narn in general and Na’Far in particular as much as he possibly can first. After Na’Far departs, Vir expresses his disgust with Mollari’s kicking the Narn while they’re down, and Mollari’s response is that that’s the only way they’re going to stay down. A probe of unknown design shows up in the system, sending a signal. Corwin starts the process of decoding it. Mollari calls in the favor Delenn owes him, asking for Vir to be reassigned to the Centauri embassy on Minbar, which has been closed for some time due to the previous ambassador making an ass of himself. Mollari assures Delenn that Vir will be completely inoffensive and won’t even play politics, as he would consider it impolite. Delenn agrees. Vir does not, as he doesn’t want to go to Minbar and doesn’t want to leave Mollari alone, but Mollari insists. Garibaldi invites Franklin over for dinner, where the alcoholic security chief confronts the doctor about what may be an abuse of stims. Franklin admits that he’s been using stims, but not abusing them, and he promises to cut back if it’ll make Garibaldi happy. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Ta’Lon and Sheridan share a drink and talk about what they’ve been doing with themselves since they were abducted by the Streib. Ta’Lon says he is in Sheridan’s debt, and he also laments that he’s not sure if he’s protecting Na’Far from outsiders or from other Narn. The probe’s message is a series of questions about various scientific disciplines. If they answer everything right, they’re worthy of first contact, and the aliens will provide the cure to every known disease. If they don’t answer everything right, the probe will blow up and take half the star system with it. They have one day. The countdown started once the message was decoded, which was kind. Ivanova informs Sheridan that they can’t get at the probe’s insides to even try to deactivate the bomb. So they scramble to get answers to the questions. Na’Far tries to convince G’Kar to return to Narn, and also to scale back the rebellious activities. The guerrilla attacks on the Centauri are keeping food from getting to Narn. G’Kar rejects the notion, as the Centauri are manipulating them into stopping their rebellion. Na’Far preaches patience, for the rebel cease-fire to be a temporary one, to give the Narn a chance to heal and the Centauri to develop a false sense of security. When G’Kar points out that the Narn on B5 need a leader, Na’Far offers himself. G’Kar laughs in his face; the Narn on B5 will never trust a Narn sent by the Centauri. Then the other shoe drops: if G’Kar doesn’t return to Narn, the families of the Narn on B5 will suffer. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Franklin is frustrated by a Llort patient who is in obvious distress, but with whom he can’t communicate because the translator is late. Plus the answers he needs for the probe are slow to come because the expert on Earth is off on vacation. Franklin snaps at his contact on Earth, and then pops some stims, just like he said he wouldn’t. Na’Far meets with the Narn on B5, who, as predicted by G’Kar, reject him handily, calling him a traitor. Violence almost erupts, though Ta’Lon is able to maintain the peace by partly unsheathing his sword. When the local Narn express disgust that he would take up arms against a fellow Narn, Ta’Lon points out the Narn with the knife behind his back trying to sneak up on Na’Far. Not wanting Narn to fight against Narn, G’Kar agrees to return to the homeworld. In CnC, they’re down to their last five questions. Just as they’re about to send those last five, Sheridan orders Corwin to stand by, as something seems wrong to him. Why would they offer cool scientific advances to a species because they already understand science? What if instead they’re testing to see if they’re so smart that they’re a threat? When they fail to send the answers, the probe just leaves the system, lending credence to Sheridan’s hypothesis that they don’t see them as a threat. Sheridan, though, doesn’t want anyone to fall victim to this, so he sends a mechanical probe with all the answers, downloading them once B5 is out of the prob’s blast radius. Sure enough, it goes boom, thus proving Sheridan’s hypothesis. Pretty much every Narn on the station—including Ta’Lon—urge G’Kar not to leave the station. Yes, their families will be in danger, but they were already in danger. What they want is to be free, and the only way that’ll happen is if G’Kar stays on B5 to lead the rebellion. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Garibaldi apologizes to Franklin for doubting him. Franklin gives the I-can-stop-anytime speech that all junkies give, and also lies through his teeth and says he got through the entire shift without taking any stims. Vir goes off to Minbar. He’s not happy about it. Sheridan and Ivanova once again meet with the transport pilots. It does not go well… Get the hell out of our galaxy! Sheridan has a nice reunion with Ta’Lon. The Narn says he owes Sheridan a debt he must repay as a matter of honor. Sheridan jokes that he’s not sure what his superiors will say if he starts showing up places with a Narn bodyguard, to which Ta’Lon confidently replies, “They will say, ‘Here is a man who will live to be a hundred and fifty’.” Ivanova is God. At one point, Ivanova compliments Sheridan on his ability to see the good in any situation. Sheridan’s reply is that if he didn’t, he might end up like her. Ivanova is not amused… The household god of frustration. As an alcoholic, Garibaldi recognizes that Franklin may be a fellow junkie. But he chooses to believe his friend when he lies to his face and says he has it under control. If you value your lives, be somewhere else. Delenn disabuses Mollari of the notion that they ever used to be friends, a relationship that pretty much only existed in Mollari’s head. She also agrees to Vir’s reassignment, but cautions Mollari that he may regret it. Credit: Warner Bros. Television In the glorious days of the Centauri Republic… Mollari makes it clear that he’s gone completely evil as he not only kicks Na’Far while he’s down, but steps on his face while he’s at it. His response to Vir’s expression of disgust is to finally get rid of him, under the pretense of being fond of him and wanting what’s good or his career. (And it is a good career move, truthfully…) Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. Apparently, if you draw a K’tok sword (which is what Ta’Lon carries), you can’t re-sheathe it until it draws blood. Ta’Lon draws it to show support for G’Kar, and has to bloody his own hand before he can put it away. (He also says to G’Kar: “I carry my sword in my hand. You carry yours in your heart and in your mind. As I see it, that gives you a two-to-one advantage in arms.”) Welcome aboard. Marshall Teague returns from “All Alone in the Night,” now given a name, Ta’Lon, and officially becoming recurring; he’ll be back in “Point of No Return.” The great Stephen Macht plays Na’Far. Recurring regular Joshua Cox is back from “The Fall of Night” as Corwin, and this is the first time he’s credited with the name he got back in “And Now for a Word” rather than as “Tech #1.” He’ll return in “Voices of Authority.” Trivial matters. Mollari piloted Delenn and Draal down to Epsilon III in “A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II,” which is the favor Mollari calls on to get Vir reassigned. According to his online postings, J. Michael Straczynski was inspired to write the probe plot in part by the findings of a House of Representatives science sub-committee that held hearings in the 1970s on the subject of what to do if extraterrestrial life tried to contact us. The conclusion was that we should do nothing, for precisely the reason Sheridan outlines in this episode. Vir was sent to Minbar at least in part to give Stephen Furst a more flexible schedule to accommodate his co-starring role in the sitcom Misery Loves Company, in which he starred with Christopher Meloni, Dennis Boutsikaris, and the great Julius Carry. (This is more consideration than Andrea Thompson got…) This accommodation would prove to not be needed for long, as the sitcom was cancelled after eight episodes. The echoes of all of our conversations. “Corwin, check these figures again. Make sure they came through the translator okay. I don’t want to get killed because of a typo—it will be embarrassing.” —Ivanova, gathering the answers to the pop quiz. Credit: Warner Bros. Television The name of the place is Babylon 5. “We are fighting for our world, Na’Far.” Once again we have stuff with the humans that’s kinda meh, leaving it to the stuff involving the non-humans to actually hold my interest. (Tellingly, the only parts of this episode I remembered from thirty years ago were Vir’s reassignment and all the Narn stuff.) First we have the Alien Pop Quiz Of Doom, where the first thing I thought of when Corwin explained it, was that it was a bait-and-switch to get rid of the smart competition. Now, I write stories for a living, so I think like that, but still, it’s frustrating when you think of the strategic thing half an hour before the military strategist does. And I mostly just found the Franklin-Garibaldi plot annoying, mostly because Franklin says everything that every junkie ever says, something Garibaldi, as a cop and as a junkie himself, should recognize. Indeed, his status as an alcoholic is why he knows that Franklin is going down the garden path, as it were. So seeing him let Franklin off the hook is annoying. It doesn’t help that Franklin is mostly a self-righteous ass, which makes it a lot harder to sympathize with him. (Also, he’s in charge of medlab, so he should know how the personnel are allocated. He’s the one who should be asking people to cover shifts, he isn’t the one who should be asked…) So once again we find ourselves looking to the plotlines involving Mollari and G’Kar for solace, and boy, do they come through. I mentioned last week how you can go from loving Mollari to hating him. This week, you just hate him, which is by way of showing why fobbing Vir off on the Minbari is a spectacularly bad idea. First he kicks poor Na’Far while he’s down, with Na’Far reduced to saying, “You missed a rib.” Then the ambassador explains to an appalled Vir why they have to kick the Narn while they’re down (basically to make sure they don’t get back up). Mollari then approaches Delenn about taking Vir off his hands, and here in particular Peter Jurasik shines, as Mollari is trying very desperately to fake sincerity. It is to Delenn’s credit that she doesn’t buy his bullshit for a nanosecond, but agrees anyhow, if for no other reason than she probably thinks Vir is better off as far away from Mollari as possible. Indeed, Mollari thinks the same. Vir is the closest Mollari has to a conscience, and it’s damnably inconvenient. So he gets rid of him. Stephen Furst beautifully plays Vir’s departure like a puppy who’s been inexplicably abandoned by his favorite person. The Narn end of things also shines. Having a guest star of the calibre of Stephen Macht and his fabulous voice certainly helps. Macht—who was one of the finalists for the role of Jean-Luc Picard back in 1986—gives Na’Far a desperate dignity. He’s not a bad person, he’s just trying to make the best of a bad situation, only to discover that he’s never going to be provided with the materials for that manufacture. Marshall Teague also does excellent work as Ta’Lon, and of course Andreas Katsulas is his usual superlative self. G’Kar has always wanted what was best for his people—sometimes at any price—and we see that writ large here. He’s willing to sacrifice his life (he obviously doesn’t believe Na’Far’s assurance that G’Kar will not be put to death, nor should he) to save others. He only doesn’t because the Narn on the station know the most important lesson: safe is good, free is better. Next week: “Passing Through Gethsemane.”[end-mark] The post <i>Babylon 5</i> Rewatch: “A Day in the Strife” appeared first on Reactor.

Adam and Will discuss the 1994 TV movie pilot and retooled 22 episode FOX adventure series M.A.N.T.I.S. starring Carl Lumbly and the cultural events that inspired its creation. Plus, learn the hosts favorite TV time CONTINUE READING... The post Remember That Show? Ep. 32: M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994) appeared first on The Retro Network.

Sen. Raphael Warnock lives rent-free in a tax-exempt $1 million home, the Free Beacon reported Monday. The article raises ethical questions about Warnock, as a senator, receiving numerous benefits from an outside organization. Warnock, D-Ga., who serves as pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church—where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served in the 1960s—has often backed left-wing causes from the pulpit. The home is “equipped with a plethora of luxury accommodations,” such as “a 100-bottle wine fridge, a Bluetooth-enabled stainless steel cooking range, custom crown molding, and a walk-in closet,” according to the Free Beacon report. The home, given to him to use free of charge by the church, is exempt from almost all property taxes. This lavish arrangement has caused some conflict within Warnock’s community. The Rev. Albert Paul Brinson, an acquaintance of King who was ordained at Ebenezer, said in an interview that King “would have never endorsed that in any way,” when asked about the $1 million housing arrangement. Sen. Raphael Warnock on Sunday said people who criticize his church for evicting residents from its low-income apartment building are attacking Jesus.Warnock said the critics are motivated by the "rulers of the darkness of this world"Via @AndrewKerrNC https://t.co/PZVkfkwz3o pic.twitter.com/oX7SR5OCE9— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) November 15, 2022 The Free Beacon has long criticized Warnock for his financial arrangements. A previous report slammed Warnock’s church for owning an apartment building from which they evict tenants “for $28.55 in past-due rent,” while Warnock enjoys substantial benefits from his position as pastor.  Warnock is up for reelection in 2028. The post REPORT: Georgia Democrat Senator Lives for Free in $1M Home appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump is ending outdated trade policies that harm hard-working Americans.   Naturally, globalist elites are spitting mad that the United States is finally putting the interests of American workers, families, and communities over the pocketbooks of self-anointed “citizens of the world.”  Here are four ways Trump’s trade policies are restoring respect for America:  1) Demanding fairness and reciprocity: For decades, friends and foes have taken advantage of American generosity, including military and other aid, while at the same time erecting barriers to competition from goods produced by American workers. No longer.   ‘Even our closest allies still impose tariffs, quotas, labeling restrictions, foreign ownership limits, and bureaucratic red tape that keep American products and companies out of many markets.   Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are a tool of statecraft that can level the playing field. If foreign nations want to avoid these tariffs, then they must remove their trade barriers. It’s really that simple.  2) Creating respect for our borders: Foreign nations have not only dumped artificially cheap products into the United States, but they have also flooded our shores with fentanyl, gang members, and illegal immigrants.   The American people spoke loud and clear last November: fixing these problems is an urgent priority.   Trump is requiring foreign countries to take their criminals back, stop facilitating drug smuggling and human trafficking, and respect our borders—otherwise, they face the consequences of stiff tariffs. As the Colombia President Gustavo Petro found out when he tried to refuse the repatriation of a planeload of illegal immigrants, soft power is not always so soft.  3) Keeping friends close and enemies far: Depending on foreign adversaries for key minerals, energy, or military inputs and technology has put vital American interests at the mercy of those who seek to defeat us, particularly China and the Chinese Communist Party. That is not peace through strength: it is economic appeasement at the cost of everyday Americans.  Globalists promised that unilateral free trade with China would make them peaceful and democratic. Instead, we got military buildups, currency and market manipulation, rampant IP theft, industrial espionage, forced technology transfers, TikTok surveillance, slave labor and COVID-19.   The CCP has plundered America’s economy and threatened the livelihood of our workers and our military-industrial base.   Trump’s across-the-board tariffs on Chinese goods will decouple our economy from China and presents our allies with a clear choice: develop partnerships with the United States and get the many benefits that come, or side with China and face U.S. tariffs.  4) Putting American families and workers first, always: Tragically, trade policies over the last several decades coincided with middling economic growth, stagnating middle-class wages, a mass exiting of the labor force by young people, the breakup of the American family, and decaying communities. No longer.   Trump’s trade policies are designed to arrest American decline that has accelerated because of foreign abuses. He promises to use new tariff revenues to help pay for equivalent tax cuts for American families and businesses.   Together, with dismantling the Deep State, slashing regulatory burdens, and extending Trump’s pro-growth tax cuts, American industry and manufacturing will be unleashed to make America self-sufficient, restore wage growth and economic dynamism, and enable the prosperity required for families to flourish in peace and stability once again.  The post Trump’s America First Trade Revolution Is a Win for Working Families  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A French court banned the leader of France’s conservative nationalist party–Marine Le Pen–from running for public office for the next five years after her embezzlement conviction.?  Le Pen lost the 2022 French presidential election to current President Emmanuel Macron. The sentence, which also includes a partially-suspended four-year prison sentence, disqualifies her from running for president again in 2027.?  The French ruling in some ways echoes an effort by opponents of now-President Donald Trump to ban him from the ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court sided with plaintiffs who insisted Trump didn’t qualify for state’s 2024 ballot because he was in “insurrectionist.” The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the ruling, thus short-circuiting efforts to ban Trump from other state ballots. Trump was never convicted or indicted for insurrection.?  The French court found Le Pen and more than 20 other members of the National Rally party used millions of euros in European Union funding that was earmarked for assistants helping lawmakers in the European Parliament with their work. Judges said Le Pen and colleagues used the money to pay party staffers who weren’t involved in work for the EU parliament, BBC reported.  Le Pen denied the charges. She testified it was appropriate for the assistants to perform other party-related work because they were political aides, and not direct employees of the European Parliament, The Wall Street Journal reported.  Banning Le Pen from public office takes effect immediately and is not pending appeal, under the judges’ orders. However, her prison sentence will be pending appeal.?  Last year, prosecutors argued to the court that a prison sentence or fine would not be enough and called for the court to make her ineligible to run for office for five years. They argued that suspension from the ballot should not be pending appeal.?  The post Euro-Lawfare? France Bans Nationalist Candidate From Running for Office appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Google is taking a significant turn in how it develops the Android operating system, moving away from its long-standing practice of building much of the platform in the open. While the company maintains that Android remains open source, the development process is set to become considerably less transparent. The company confirmed to Android Authority that, going forward, all Android development will occur within Google’s internal codebase. This internal branch, unlike the publicly accessible Android Open Source Project (AOSP), is limited to Google and companies with Google Mobile Services (GMS) licenses — such as Samsung, Motorola, and other major manufacturers. Google attributes the change to a desire for simplification. According to the company, the previous system, maintaining both public and internal branches, often caused the two versions to drift apart in terms of features and API support. This created a labor-intensive process of merging code for each release. By shifting all active development to its internal branch, Google says it can “streamline releases and make life easier for everyone.” Despite the shift, the company says it will continue to publish final source code to AOSP once a new Android version is complete. This, it claims, will free developers from the burden of tracking in-progress changes while still giving them access to the finalized platform code. For OEMs, the internal branch offers a more aligned and predictable environment as they develop hardware that often takes a year or more to bring to market. However, the decision has sparked concern among developers and open-source advocates, many of whom view the change as a step away from Android’s foundational ethos. While Android remains open source in principle, the move significantly reduces external visibility into how it evolves. Previously, public commits to AOSP often offered early clues about upcoming features, platform changes, or hardware support—information that will now be locked behind closed doors. The reduced transparency means fewer opportunities for early feedback from the developer community, which in the past could flag potential issues or raise concerns about proposed changes. This isn’t the first sign that Android is moving away from open development. Over the years, Google has steadily migrated key features out of AOSP and into proprietary components. This approach has allowed the company to update critical parts of the system without requiring full OS upgrades — but it’s also given Google tighter control over the platform. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Google Shifts Android Development to Internal Codebase, Marking Major Move Away from Open Source Transparency appeared first on Reclaim The Net.