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Jamie Lovett is a graduate of MTSU’s Journalism program who followed his lifelong passion for comics and related media into a career writing about pop culture. He has over a decade of experience writing about television, movies, comics, video games, and more, and recently co-founded the comics-focused newsletter/site Weird City Media.
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Warner Bros. Pictures is officially moving forward with a reboot of the 1990s adventure movie Free Willy. Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO Pictures is producing. Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett are writing the screenplay.
The original Free Willy debuted in 1993. The family movie’s plot saw an orphaned boy connecting with a captive orca. It became a global hit, earning $153.7 million off of a $20 million budget. The movie is also credited with changing public opinion about orcas, sometimes referred to as “killer whales,” and galvanizing activism on the species’ behalf.
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