Keiko, whose name means "Lucky One" in Japanese, starred in three Free Willy films, in which a young boy befriends a killer whale and encourages him to jump over an aquarium wall to ocean freedom.
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Films were screened free and half-litres of beer cost a euro.
Ahead of its launch, the Museum of London gave film fans the chance to vote for their favourite Michael Caine films, with free screenings of the top four movies later this year.
In 2006, Disney bought Pixar and since then Iger has given Lasseter free rein to produce unconventional films that on paper seem like they would be total disasters (Ratatouille, the story of a rat in the kitchen) but manage to make millions at the box office.
So I don't accept this argument that there's some benefit to culture in allowing people to make copies of commercial films and getting them for free.
All films will be shown ad-free and uncut, and in HD, device and title-permitting.
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Composer John Barry, famous for his work on Born Free, Out of Africa and the James Bond films, has died in New York of a heart attack aged 77.
Theaters show trailers such as Miramax Films' "Shakespeare in Love" for free, at the urging of studios.
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Inspired by the films, an international campaign began in 1993 to free Keiko and return him to the wild - the first orca whale to be freed in this way.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Keiko the 'Free Willy' whale dies
To that end, Scorsese revealed at Cannes last year two new distribution partnerships, including one that allows four of the films restored by the foundation to be viewed for free via online movie theater The Auteurs.
Passionate filmmakers could suddenly be free of the burden of searching for investors willing to put money into their films but also expecting returns.
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The Crackle App, which offers users a free experience that features ad-supported, full-length and unedited Hollywood films, television series and original series, has been downloaded more than 11 million times since its launch in Spring 2011.
Demand for HD movies viewable at home or on mobile devices is on the rise, but movie studios are wary of putting crisp HD versions of their films online, lest pirates snatch them up and distribute them for free.
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The associations are wild and free, yet nothing feels arbitrary or showy (one thinks of the visionary episodes in silent films rather than of Fellini).
Those services have a smaller selection of older free movies, with their own share of clunkers in the inventory, and charge more overall for newer films.
The free on-demand service will allow the supermarket's 15 million loyalty card holders to access TV shows and films online.
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