 Here at the SIP Theater in Paintsville, a little-known Kentucky story has made the big screen in its movie premiere. In that movie, the death of Floyd Collins directed by Michael Crisp. The death of Floyd Collins revisits the very famous Kentucky story, which happened in 1925 of a cave explorer by the name of Floyd Collins who ended up trying to find a secret entrance into Mammoth Cave. But instead of finding an entrance, he unfortunately found tragedy. He ended up being trapped in the cave for about two and a half weeks. Collins' story turned into a media frenzy during the 1920s once they found him trapped in the cave. The way that Crisp and his director found out about the story was actually through actor Billy Bob Thornton. About five years ago, I was approached by my producer, a fellow named Scott Hall, and when he was talking to Billy Bob Thornton, started talking about Kentucky stories. The actor Billy Bob Thornton said his favorite Kentucky story was the story of Floyd Collins. Thornton originally heard about Floyd Collins' story from a book titled Trapped, and Crisp pursued the authors to find out more about the story. Actor Cody Napier, who plays Floyd Collins' brother Homer Napier, spoke about his experience making this film. It was fantastic playing this role, getting to play a heroic brother and to go and really study the history behind the Floyd Collins story. I really never knew much about it until I started reading and doing my research and it was a fantastic story. Napier also explained that this film reaches people because rather than reading it in a book, they are able to see history on screen. If you love history, you're a history buff and a lot of your local history interests you, then this is a film that you definitely want to see because it's really surprising. There's a lot of things in the film that you wouldn't expect. The movie was made available on Amazon.com immediately after its premiere. Reporting for EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Courtney Leverin.