Warner Bros. Has Pulled All of Classic Looney Tunes From Max

That’s all, folks–as parent company Warner Bros.’ valuation of animation continues to be in rapid descent, the company has decided that the same weekend the Looney Tunes light up the big screen in The Day the Earth Blew Up would be the perfect time to remove every original Looney Tunes short from its streamer, Max. Deadline reports that the removal–which impacts almost 40 years’ worth of animated shorts from the 1930s all the way up to the late ’60s–is part of an ongoing reprioritization on Max to focus on adult and family content. While plenty of Looney Tunes series remain on the streamer for now such as The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, parts of New Looney Tunes, and Tiny Toons Looniversity, the franchise’s classic legacy of short form animation has been scrubbed entirely, coming even after Warner Bros. previously clarified plans not to remove the original shorts from Max in late 2023. It’s not the first time in recent memory that Warner Bros. has come under fire for how it’s tre ... Read full article.