Apr 23, 2020

New Looney Tunes short film will be available on HBO Max in May.

The launch date for Warner Media's new streaming service, HBO Max, has been set for May 27. [The service includes a selection of Warner Bros. movies and TV series, classic movies in partnership with New Line, DC, CNN, TNT, TBS, TruTV, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth and TCM, content from WarnerMedia's vast library.

HBO Max will also offer series and movie titles acquired by third parties, including streaming debuts of most of Studio Ghibli's movie library.

But the big news for classic animation fans is that Warner Bros. Animation's new "cartoonist-driven" Looney Tunes shorts will be available on launch day as Max Originals. 80 11-minute episodes will be included, each episode composed of short stories of varying lengths.

The initial announcement of the project in 2018 said there would be 1,000 minutes of new animation, so it appears that most of the new shorts being produced (880 minutes worth) will be included in the HBO Max package. As far as we know, they are still working on full orders, so some of the other shorts may debut at a later date or be available elsewhere.

A new trailer for the Pete Braungart-directed series has also been released:

Other animation projects announced for distribution on HBO Max in late 2020 include: