TIFFCOM, the content market held in coordination with the Tokyo International Film Festival, will host a keynote presentation by Chris Brearton and Dominic Hughes, partner and chief scientific Officer, respectively, of AGBO, the studio founded by Anthony and Joe Russo. The session, titled “Technology and Storytelling,” takes place Oct. 29 and will be moderated by
Warner Bros. is developing a remake of the ’90s family adventure “Free Willy,” produced by Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO. The team has hired Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett to write the script for the new film. Released in 1993, “Free Willy,” about an orphan boy who befriends an orca, became a global phenomenon.