
Thomasin McKenzie and Ansel Elgort as Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy in ‘Dinner with Audrey‘
Sophie Elgort
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlit a new feature documentary about Keiko, the orca who became world famous after appearing in the 1993 movie Free Willy.
The timing is on point, with Warner Bros. working on a reimagining of Free Willy with the Russo brothers’ AGBO banner. The film memorably told the story of a young boy who befriends and tries to free a killer whale who has been captured in the wild and is living in an aquarium.
The Netflix doc does not have a title yet, but we have the essentials. “Keiko, the world’s most famous orca, was the star attraction at an amusement park in Mexico City and an icon for an entire generation,” reads an early synopsis. “For years, he lived in a human-designed world. Hollywood thrust him onto the global stage as the star of Free Willy, sparking a worldwide animal rights movement. What began as a dream shared by millions of children to see him return to the ocean transformed into one of the most ambitious and controversial animal reintroduction experiments in history.”
Mexican prodcos Mezcla and The Lift Films are making the feature doc. Santiago Fábregas is the director.
It will not be the only Keiko doc swimming onto screens. HBO Max and Sky in the UK have joined forces on a project about the iconic whale, also as-yet-unnamed. Don’t F*ck With Cats producer Raw Television is making that one.
The Netflix project is one of three new feature doc commissions out of Mexico that we can reveal. The streamer has invested heavily in Lat-Am, and has greenlit a raft of Mexico-originated projects ahead of Mexican Cinema Day on August 15. It will also create a section on its service dedicated to Mexican storytelling.
Liliana Rivera Garza & Subcomandante Marcos Docs
Liliana’s Invincible Summer will tell the story of Liliana Rivera Garza, a young architecture student who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 1990, a time before femicide was legally recognized as a crime in Mexico.

The doc is based on the eponymous book by Liliana’s sister, Cristina Rivera Garza. It follows Cristina as she goes through Liliana’s diaries and letters, and testimonies from those who knew her, to reconstruct her memory.
Inna Payán and Samuel Kishi direct. The duo said: “We gathered her photos, her words, and the memories of those who knew her, allowing ourselves to be embraced by her presence. We name what was done to her without defining her by it.”
Rounding out the trio of docs is Marcos: Another World is Possible. Focusing on Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, AKA Subcomandante Marcos, it tells his story and the story of the struggle of Zapatista communities in the wake of the 1994 uprising.
Diego Enrique Osorno is the director. “Like many of my generation, we first saw Marcos and only later learned to look at what lay behind him,” he said. “Driven by that initial emotional impact, I made this documentary to open a window into the Zapatista communities, who today continue to stand firm on an idea that some deemed impossible: refusing to surrender to a world forced upon them.”

Bernardo Loyola, Director of Documentaries for Latin America at Netflix, said the three new films are a celebration of Mexican documentary filmmaking.
“Investing in these stories in Mexico means placing our full trust in filmmakers’ vision and giving them the time, space and creative support to tell bold and complex stories. Our upcoming projects reflect that ambition. They each take very different approaches, but share a deep sense of honesty in exploring memory, identity and the figures who have shaped our country.”
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More than 70 years after her onscreen breakout, Audrey Hepburn‘s legacy is an indomitable Hollywood presence to attempt to recreate onscreen.
With upcoming films starring Lilly Collins and Thomasin McKenzie as the late 2x Oscar winner, Hepburn’s sons recently shared their curiosity about the upcoming projects, with Sean Hepburn Ferrer revealing his work with Collins on her portrayal.
“We’ve had several talks about it, and I’ve told her that I think she should do something,” Sean told People. “I’ve suggested several things to Lily that have made her giggle and laugh.”
In February, Collins signed on to play Audrey Hepburn in Sam Wasson’s bestselling book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, which documented the making of 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Sean added, “I’ve known Natalie Portman since she was 14 and she’s a fantastic person. I’m close to Rooney Mara [once attached to a Luca Guadagnino-helmed biopic about Hepburn], who’s also a delightful girl. But Lily is something special.”

Thomasin McKenzie and Ansel Elgort as Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy in ‘Dinner with Audrey‘
Sophie Elgort
With McKenzie playing Hepburn in Dinner with Audrey, which premiered at Cannes in May, about her longtime friendship with designer Count Hubert de Givenchy (Ansel Elgort), Sean noted, “I don’t know much about the project, but it sounds sweet. McKenzie seems like a very serious young actress. I’ve got my fingers crossed.”
Hepburn’s younger son Luca Dotti agreed, “I’m a curious bystander and I would love to see it.”
“[Collins] has forever been named as a possible successor of my mother, because of her looks and her talents, and Emily in Paris, and because of the fashion,” he added.
Known for her roles in Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), Funny Face (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) and My Fair Lady (1964), as well as her years of humanitarian work as a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF, Audrey Hepburn died of cancer at age 63 in 1993.
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Josh D’Amaro attended his first D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, having succeeded Bob Iger five months ago.
On Day 3 of the Disney event, D’Amaro had a sit down with Ginnifer Goodwin where he opened up about the future of Disney and how it’s been for him as the new CEO of the company.
For starters, the executive says “it’s still strange” for people to refer to him as CEO “because I’ve been here for 30 years,” adding, “I started at an entry-level position at Disneyland in 1998.”
“I loved Disney growing up,” he said. “I visited the parks with my family. I remember those moments so clearly. They truly have stuck with me. I’ve been a fan first for my entire life, and then to come and actually work for the company — the moment I got inside the walls, it’s cool to be working for Disney.”
D’Amaro gave a shoutout to the cast members and “the leaders behind the scenes,” who “care about this place, care about the company, care about the fans in a real, genuine way. To be here at D23, it takes a lot of work to pull an event like this, but to see the fandom, to see the rewards of all the hard work that’s been put into making these places and making these stories as special as they are, there’s nothing like it.”
In terms of opportunities that D’Amaro considers for the future of the company he said there are several important things that are important to him at the highest level.
“First is that we are a company that tells the world’s best stories, and we will never — I will never relent on that,” he explained. “So, making sure that we’re making great films like Zootopia, making sure that we’re making the next attraction that just blows people away, the next Broadway show that pulls people in. As simple as it sounds, that has to be the focus of all leaders, quite frankly, at the Disney Company.”
D’Amaro also pointed that currently the industry is at the “intersection of technology and media,” adding, “I don’t think it’s ever been more relevant and more powerful. And this company, the Walt Disney Company, has always thrived in these moments, all the way back to to Walt as he was thinking about film and how to change how films are made, or Disneyland and animatronics.”
He continued, “We’re in this moment where I want to push in to the technology that’s available to us, marry it with this beautiful story making, and push the company forward.”
Lastly, D’Amaro noted that the Walt Disney Company is an accumulation of different things, wether it’s ESPN, a streamer, a theme park, and a film producer.
“We’re the Walt Disney Company, and for anyone that’s looking around contextually at the entertainment landscape right now, it kind of looks like people are trying to look like Disney,” he said. “They’ll try to buy some of this stuff and that stuff. And for us, we have all of that. We have the the best IP in the world. We have the best collection of businesses in the world. We have scale around the globe like nobody else has, and we have talent that everyone wishes they had. So if we now pull this whole company together in one, and show up as one company wherever that is-Disney+, or in a theme park, or at a place like D23-no one can compete with us. There’s nothing like the Walt Disney Company where we can operate as one.”
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For the first time in forever, Kristen Bell has both Frozen and baseball on the mind as she treated sports fans to a surprise performance from Princess Anna.
On Saturday, the 2x Golden Globe nominee popped up in the stands of the Savannah Bananas game against the Indianapolis Clowns in Denver, where she sang her Disney character’s song “For the First Time in Forever” in a mashup with Tony-nominated pitcher Derek Klena singing “Dancing Through Life” from Wicked, in which he performed as Fiyero Tigelaar on Broadway.
“The mashup we never knew we needed,” the team wrote on Instagram with a video of the performance, which also included “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” from Dirty Dancing, complete with the lift.
Following his Tony-nominated 2017 performance in Jagged Little Pill, as well as subsequent Broadway runs in Moulin Rouge!, Sunset Boulevard and Wicked, Klena was scouted by the viral exhibition barnstorming team in December.
Bell’s surprise appearance came after she stopped by D23 in Anaheim to tease Anna’s wedding to Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) in Frozen 3, joining co-stars Idina Menzel and Josh Gad onstage to debut new music and scenes from the threequel. The Disney movie premieres Nov. 24, 2027.
The $2.76 billion-grossing launched with Frozen in 2013, followed by the 2019 sequel Frozen 2.
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