Tilikum, the orca featured in the 2013 SeaWorld documentary Blackfish, died Friday morning. The 36-year-old orca had been suffering from a “persistent and complicated bacterial lung infection” since ...

Though it doesn’t open in Orlando until sometime in August (stay tuned for more coverage when the film comes out), the initial NY/LA release of Magnolia Pictures and CNN films’ Blackfish is coming ...

Tilikum (born c. 1981), sometimes misspelled Tillikum, is a bull orca who lives in captivity at SeaWorld Orlando, Florida, in the United States, and formerly Sealand of the Pacific in South Oak Bay at ...

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This stirring documentary explores the real-life version of tragedies involving killer whales in captivity, like the one depicted in awards season contender "Rust and Bone." By David Rooney Chief Film ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 35-year-old killer whale that was connected to three deaths and became the focus of the “Blackfish” documentary on SeaWorld’s orcas is seriously ill, the company said Tuesday on its ...

Tilikum, the orca featured heavily in Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary “Blackfish,” died Friday morning after 25 years of living at SeaWorld. SeaWorld announced Friday that the whale, believed to ...

SeaWorld Orlando’s most famous killer whale, Tilikum, who inspired the documentary Blackfish, has died, the theme park announced in a statement on its website Friday, January 6. He was estimated to be ...

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Tilikum makes a big splash of audiences unaware of his killer history. June 21, 2013— -- SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau and Tilikum, a killer whale, delighted an audience when they performed ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at ...