Manic Street Preachers and Suede played the first gig of their co-headline tour of the UK last night. Check out the setlist below.The two indie giants kicked off their joint tour last night at Llangollen International Eisteddfod 2024.
12.06.2024 - 07:29 / variety.com
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Look up “cartoon villain” in the dictionary, and you’re likely to find a picture of David Zaslav. Since taking over Warner Bros. Discovery, he’s orphaned not one, but two feature-length Looney Tunes projects.
Last November, there was the live-action/animated hybrid “Coyote vs. Acme,” which he gave the “Batgirl” treatment (except, unlike that film, this one was done, so the tax write-off reasoning doesn’t track). Lower profile but no less disappointing, WB Animation’s hand-drawn Porky Pig and Daffy Duck stand-alone “The Day the Earth Blew Up” was made for Max, but went on the block last fall.
It’s still looking for U.S. distribution. Fortunately, that didn’t stop the Annecy Animation Festival from giving “The Day the Earth Blew Up” its world premiere — and, one hopes, a better shot at seeing the light of day.
(WB Germany will release it on Aug. 1, with several other international markets to follow.) As it turns out, “Day” is funnier than any film the studio has put out since “The Lego Movie 2” and a rare chance to see Porky and Daffy doing something other than playing basketball or moving merch. In this form, the duo reflect their amped-up 21st-century selves, as featured in a recent run of small-screen Looney Tunes shorts (the film’s director, Peter Browngardt, oversaw no fewer than five of them).
Manic Street Preachers and Suede played the first gig of their co-headline tour of the UK last night. Check out the setlist below.The two indie giants kicked off their joint tour last night at Llangollen International Eisteddfod 2024.
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