When the original "Rocky" filled theaters in 1976, Stallone, an unheralded actor and writer, acknowledged that he had been inspired by the unheralded Wepner's determination.
In Poland, nearly one million people have filled theaters to watch Antoni Krauze's "Black Thursday," a film exploring an episode in 1970 when government troops gunned down dozens of protesters in Gdynia and other cities on Poland's Baltic Coast.
Or is it that we actually cut a little too close to the bone, and there's a narrative that doesn't want to be challenged?" As the film has filled theaters, other officials have stepped up to vouch for it.
He has filled theaters in the United States since 2009 — when he boosted his profile with a popular HBO special, "I Swear to God" — and sold several series concepts along the way.
Shot by hand-held camera, with a 68-member ensemble cast laced with Delhi socialites and Ms. Nair's own family, "Monsoon Wedding" promptly won the Golden Lion, the top prize, at the Venice International Film Festival in September and has filled theaters in India ever since.
Hollywood filled theaters everywhere with disgracefully exploitative films about gun-crazed Los Angeles aerospace engineers and gang mayhem.
