HBO has greenlit a docuseries about Keiko, the whale from the 1993 film, from All3Media’s Raw Television, which is behind ...

Directed by Simon Wincer, the movie starred Jason James Richter in his breakthrough role as the protagonist with a big heart, Jesse Greenwood. Also in the cast were Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson, and ...

Folks at Sea World call their aquatic playgrounds amusement parks. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) calls them abusement parks. The environmental question of whether sea creatures ...

Warner Bros Discovery-owned HBO has ordered a multi-part docuseries about killer whale Keiko, who appeared in the 1993 ...

HBO Max has partnered with Three Identical Strangers producer Raw on a docuseries about the real life ‘Free Willy’ whale ...

The story of Keiko is a fascinating and tragic one. The male orca was born in the waters off Iceland in 1977 and was nearly two years old when he was captured by fishermen. He was taken in the ...

Some movies are undeniably critic-proof. No matter what holes there may be in dramatic narrative, continuity or technical skills, family-film audiences can be misled into believing that any clean ...

Did you think 1993 family-oriented whale drama Free Willy lacked a certain something? Maybe it wasn't quite titillating enough? Then Youtube-based comedy team The Nix Brothers, previously known for ...

The star of “Free Willy” needed some freeing of his own this week. Former child actor Jason James Richter — who found fame in the 1990s film franchise about a troubled boy who befriends a whale named ...

Canada’s parliament just passed a whale of a bill. On Monday, the Canadian House of Commons made it illegal to keep a whale, dolphin or porpoise captive. The “Free Willy” bill S203 — named after the ...

A charge of domestic battery has been dismissed against actor Jason James Richter, best known for his role as Jesse in Free Willy, after a heated argument in October with his then-girlfriend in Los ...