On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

The movie Office Space ( 1999 ), which lost money during its box office run, managed to turn significant profits when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental and purchase.

Older films are also popular on the circuit, appreciated largely in an imposed camp fashion — a midnight movie tradition that goes back to the 1972 revival of the hectoring anti-drug movie Reefer Madness ( 1938 ).

He was the only child of İrma Felekyan ( Toto Karaca ) of Armenian origin, a popular opera, theatre and movie actress, and Mehmet İbrahim Karaca of Azerbaijani origin .< ref name =" aksiyon040216 ">

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

The role of elves as Santa's helpers has continued to be popular, as evidenced by the success of the popular Christmas movie Elf.

The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.

Another popular Satanic horror movie was The Omen ( 1976 ), where a man realizes that his five-year-old adopted son is the Antichrist.

Lewis and his popular movie characters were animated in the Filmation cartoon series, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.

A harbinger of the cookie-cutter " cineplex " type movie theaters that would become popular in the 1970s, a Jerry Lewis Cinema was billed in franchising ads as a " mini-theatre " with a seating capacity of between 200 and 350.

Amateur actors replace their favorite movie stars in popular movies.

Brownlow observes that the movie “ sent her career into orbit and made her the most popular actress in America, if not the world .”

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

Often the student's idea of such is popular vocal selections, movie soundtracks, etc.

Recent portrayals of prefects in modern popular culture include Jet Li ’ s portrayal of the nameless prefect in the movie Hero.

A parody of a popular song, movie, etc., may be given a title that hints at the title of the work being parodied, substituting some of the words with ones that sound or look similar.

Anthropomorphized rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film, literature, and technology, notably the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; in the popular novels Watership Down, by Richard Adams ( which has also been made into a movie ) and Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, as well as in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories.

In Roger Ebert's review of the 2004 movie Secret Window, he stated, " A lot of people were outraged that was honored at the National Book Awards, as if a popular writer could not be taken seriously.

His most popular programs included a re-creation of Sandrine's bar, an Irish town called Fair Haven, and a 1930s-era sci-fi movie serial entitled Captain Proton.

Cub-Busters T-shirts inspired from the movie were popular attire for Padres fans.

The summer season is also most popular for animated movies to be released theatrically in movie theaters.

For instance, whenever Star Movies ( a popular Asian movie channel ) plays the film, Connery's line in which he says to Cage " winners go home and fuck the prom queen " is replaced with " winners go home and date the prom queen ", while in another scene where Connery's character is described as a " son of a bitch " the line is replaced with " son of a Brit " in the censored cut.

Most of his reputation declined with that of Socialist Realism, but his children's tale character Buratino retains his strong legacy with the younger audience of Russia and across the former Soviet space, appearing as popular reading, a movie, and a variety of derivative forms.

Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

One of Thomas ' most popular works was the short essay A Child's Christmas in Wales, which after being released as part of a recording, in which Thomas read his own work, became his most popular prose work in America.

* 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

The " Christmas elves " of contemporary popular culture are of relatively recent tradition, popularized during the late 19th century in the United States, in publications such as Godey's Lady's Book.

Allegory was popular at the time, so " old Christmas " was given a voice to protest his exclusion, along with the form of a rambunctious, jolly old man.

As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day.

As with Maine and Vermont, French-Canadian dishes are popular, including tourtière, which is traditionally served on Christmas Eve, and poutine.

Several hours of music were prepared for it, including Bach fugues, all of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Christmas carols, and numerous popular songs.

Some popular Christmas carols are " We Wish You a Merry Christmas ", " Deck the Halls ", " The Twelve Days of Christmas ", " Frosty the Snowman ", " Jingle Bells ", " Silver Bells ", " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ", and " O Holy Night ".

The calendars are similar to and may have developed from advent calendars, which are popular during the Christmas period.

For the southern solstice, Christmas is the most popular holiday to have arisen.

The editorial, which included the famous reply " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ", has become an indelible part of popular Christmas folklore in the United States and Canada.

Robert Chambers, in his 1832 work, Book of Days notes that " two popular observances belonging to Christmas are more especially derived from the worship of our pagan ancestors — the hanging up of the mistletoe and the burning of the Yule log.

* December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, premieres on NBC.

Mulled mead is a popular drink at Christmas time, where mead is flavored with spices ( and sometimes various fruits ) and warmed, traditionally by having a hot poker plunged into it.

As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

In 1816 he wrote the German text O Du Fröhliche .. to the melody of one of the most popular Christmas songs, O Sanctissima.

Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych also explored new ways of harmonizing and arranging Ukrainian folk songs, producing masterpieces such as Dudaryk and Shchedryk, the latter of which featured a four-note ostinato theme and became a popular Christmas carol known as Carol of the Bells after it was translated by Peter J. Wilhousky.

Seasonal eggs are introduced around the holidays, such as the limited-edition creche collections ( featuring such characters as the three kings, baby Jesus, and assorted barnyard animals ) found around Christmas, and the huge ones found at Easter ( extremely popular in Italy ).