The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, the first-ever fully animated film based on the Looney Tunes characters, which hit U.S. theaters Dec. 13, almost didn’t happen.Several times ...

It was a way to combine his deep childhood love of Looney Tunes cartoons with symphony orchestra music. Its earliest shows were a Broadway run at the George Gershwin Theatre in New York City.