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Checco Zalone’s Che bella giornata (What a Beautiful Day) is released, and breaks domestic box office records by earning €21m in its opening week. [ADD] |
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| 25/2 - | Giovanni Veronesi’s comedy Manuale d'am3re is released. [ADD] | |||
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A Facebook protest against the release of Neri Parenti’s Amici miei - Come tutto ebbe inizio, a prequel to Mario Monicelli’s My Friends saga, attracts 60,000 members on the eve of the film’s release. Protestors consider Parenti’s film to be the ‘desecration of a masterpiece’. [ADD] |
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| 29/3 - |
New culture minister Giancarlo Galan questions the need for the Rome Film Festival, considering it a competitor to the Venice Film Festival at a time when arts fund are scarce. [ADD] |
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Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope, in which Michel Piccoli stars as a cardinal who receives psychotherapy after reluctantly becoming Pope. As well as directing, Moretti also appears as the psychotherapist. [ADD] |
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| 16/12 - | Leonardo Pieraccioni's Finalmente la felicità, the story of a Tuscan musician who discovers he has a Brazilian sister, is released. Ariadna Romero, Rocco Papaleo, Andrea Buscemi, Thyago Alves, Shel Shapiro and Maria DeFilippi star. [ADD] | |||
| 16/12 - | Just eight days after its release, Ligabue Compovolo - il film 3D becomes the country's highest-earning concert movie with a box office return of €1,360,848. The film is of a concert given by rock singer Ligabue on 16th July 2011 in Reggio Emilia. [ADD] | |||
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