Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you remember when the orca-focused documentary Blackfish blew us out of the water? Ten years later, Blackfish filmmaker ...

The rock band Heart joins a expanding group of musical artists who’ve cancelled scheduled performances at SeaWorld — they’ve all cited by the documentary Blackfish, which depicts the dark side of ...

Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite looks back on the impactful documentary on its 10th anniversary. (Photo illustration by Yahoo News Visuals; photo: Getty Images) When director Gabriela ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gabriela Cowperthwaite was a mom who took her kids to SeaWorld when the death of a killer whale trainer at one of the marine parks sparked her latest filmmaking project. The ...

LOS ANGELES — What the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary “The Cove” did for dolphin slaughter in Japan, “Blackfish” may do for killer whales living in captivity while performing at marine parks.

Amid mounting cancellations by performers and lost business, SeaWorld executives revealed in internal emails that the 2013 “Blackfish” documentary was affecting revenues — long before they publicly ...

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SAN DIEGO — A federal trial is set to get underway in San Diego next month to hear evidence in a longstanding class-action suit claiming SeaWorld deceived investors about the negative impact from the ...

Think of the riveting Blackfish as the psychological portrait of a killer — that happens to be a whale. The documentary opens with an exchange in which a 911 operator asks, "A whale just ate one of ...