Great job," says Charles Vinick, director of the Whale Sanctuary Project (WSP). "That's not what it can ever be for an orca ...

When Keiko, a male orca, was cast in the film Free Willy in the early 1990s ... The film, which told of a captive whale that befriends a 12-year-old boy who helps him make a break for freedom ...

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A whale known to many in Oregon and the ... in 1985. In 1993 the orca portrayed Willy in the movie "Free Willy." The film grossed nearly $8 million domestically during its opening weekend and ...

14. The podcast follows the real-life fight to release the orca actor who played the titular whale in the 1993 film Free Willy. According to a release from The Good Whale, after Free Willy became an ...

The director of "Free Willy" reflected on the ... actor Jason Richter really did form a bond with Keiko, the orca whale who played Willy. Wincer said he knew that the success of the movie would ...

Scientists have recorded an orca named ... place for a whale or dolphin is in the wild." There are few examples of captive marine mammals being successfully freed. In 2003 Free Willy star Keiko ...

Fresh from last season’s power move of sinking boats in the Mediterranean sea, it would appear that this year orcas are ...

“The Good Whale” is hosted by Daniel ... following the success of 1993′s “Free Willy,” and the public outcry that greeted the news that the orca who leapt to freedom on film was, in ...