View Full Version : How many of the modern LT shorts actually got theatrical releases?
Philo & Gunge
04-21-2008, 05:20 PM
I've always had a slight interest in the modern 90's Looney Tunes shorts. Yes, the quality is lacking in some of them but it's still interesting to see shorts being continued to be made in an era where short subjects were pretty much dead.
Just before, I was thinking about how Warner Brothers seemed to make a lot of shorts in such a small period of time, but hardly any of them got nationwide theatrical releases. From my research, I know that:
Box Office Bunny was released with The Neverending Story II
Chariots of Fur was released with Richie Rich
Carrotblanca was released with The Amazing Panda Adventure
Superior Duck was released with Carpool
Pullet Surprise was released with Cats Don't Dance
But I can't find anything on the Ford/Lennon shorts or the additional Jones shorts getting releases (I don't count Night of the Living Duck since it was technically part of Daffy Duck's Quackbusters). Does anybody know if those shorts ever got cinema releases?
Joe H
04-21-2008, 05:39 PM
Another Froggy Evening was released with City of Angels
Jon Cooke
04-21-2008, 05:56 PM
Keep in mind, most of the modern shorts DID get a limited theatrical release (usually just in the Las Angeles area) for Oscar consideration purposes. They never got a wide release like the ones you listed that were attached to movies.
As far as I know the only modern cartoons that have never got ANY sort of theatrical release were "Blooper Bunny", "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" and the Larry Doyle cartoons.
J. J. Hunsecker
04-21-2008, 06:18 PM
Keep in mind, most of the modern shorts DID get a limited theatrical release (usually just in the Las Angeles area) for Oscar consideration purposes.
"Las Angeles"!?! Hasn't my adopted city suffered enough humiliation in the past without condensing it with Las Vegas? For shame, Mr. Cooke. :shame:
Matthew Hunter
04-21-2008, 11:28 PM
"Las Angeles"!?! Hasn't my adopted city suffered enough humiliation in the past without condensing it with Las Vegas? For shame, Mr. Cooke. :shame:
Aw c'mon Hunsecker, there's not THAT much difference...except that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. What happens in Los Angeles...is in the tabloids a day later!
Daffy Duck For President was released as a bonus feature on the LTGC volume 3.
Marty26
04-22-2008, 07:45 AM
Blooper Bunny and Invasion Of The Bunny Snatchers were released on television rather than in theaters (::hides head in shame for stating something incredibly obvious::).
Bugsy-Kun
04-22-2008, 08:32 AM
Daffy Duck For President was released as a bonus feature on the LTGC volume 3.
It's in the Volume 2, but we talked about modern cartoons released for theaters.
It's in the Volume 2, but we talked about modern cartoons released for theaters.
My mistake... I just assumed that these were dvd releases...
Box Office Bunny was released with The Neverending Story II
Chariots of Fur was released with Richie Rich
Carrotblanca was released with The Amazing Panda Adventure
Superior Duck was released with Carpool
Pullet Surprise was released with Cats Don't Dance
speedy fast
04-22-2008, 04:08 PM
Blooper Bunny and Invasion Of The Bunny Snatchers were released on television rather than in theaters (::hides head in shame for stating something incredibly obvious::).
Does anybody know if Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers was originally made for theaters, like Blooper Bunny was?
What was The Duxorcist released with?
J. J. Hunsecker
04-22-2008, 04:24 PM
Wasn't The Whizzard of Ow released theatrically? Or am I imagining it, since it appeared as an extra on the DVD of Back in Action?
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Matthew Hunter,
It's so true what you said about L.A. and Vegas. Vegas, as the gambling capital of the USA, was the brainchild of L.A. resident "Bugsy" Siegel. And if Sinatra thought both places were okay, then that's good enough for me.
Wasn't The Whizzard of Ow released theatrically? Or am I imagining it, since it appeared as an extra on the DVD of Back in Action?
No, the results of Larry Doyle's Looney Tunes gang rape were never released theatrically. Can you believe that they were intending to actually show them in theaters?!
Bugsy-Kun
04-22-2008, 05:29 PM
What was The Duxorcist released with?
I think "Duxorcist" and "Night of the Living Duck" was released for theaters in a short subject before but i'm not quite sure.
Wasn't The Whizzard of Ow released theatrically? Or am I imagining it, since it appeared as an extra on the DVD of Back in Action? It was, in the UK with "Looney Tunes: Back In Action". Consider you and all you guys across the pond lucky that you didn't get to see this awful short projected onto the big screen. It didn't look as if it was meant to be seen in theatres at all.
Philo & Gunge
04-22-2008, 05:52 PM
Wasn't The Whizzard of Ow released theatrically? Or am I imagining it, since it appeared as an extra on the DVD of Back in Action?
No, but it was screened in Wal-Mart stores right before BIA came out.
speedy fast
04-22-2008, 08:50 PM
I thought I'd read that Back in Action was meant to come with a new Tweety short, so it's odd that The Whizzard of Ow ended up being released with it outside the us, and on the DVD, and was screened at Wal-Mart. And that was the only one of those new shorts mentioned in Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide (which was released before BIA was released in theaters).
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