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BOX OFFICE Italy

King Kong buried by laughter

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As per usual over Christmas, Italian cinema has returned to triumph at the box office, beating out the Hollywood colossals. Even over the New Year’s weekend, as had already taken place around Christmas, Italians flocked to see actor duo Boldi-De Sica. According to Cinetel data, Natale a Miami (directed by Neri Parenti and produced by Aurelio De Laurentiis with Filmauro), grossed 2.56m euro last weekend and also recorded the highest per screen average (5,000 euro), reaching a total box office since its release of 16.26m euro. It thus overtook the record set by Roberto Benigni’s The Tiger and the Snow, which, until yesterday, had been the most successful Italian film of 2005 with almost 15m euro.

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In a comfortable second place is another Italian film, Ti amo in tutte le lingue del mondo (produced by Levante Film and Medusa). The latest cinematic endeavour by Leonardo Pieraccioni, who two years ago surpassed Boldi and De Sica with Il paradiso all' improvviso, grossed 2.35m euro last weekend, with a per screen average of 4,700 euro and total box office figures of 11.78m euro.

However, the truly defeated are, above all, the North American films: third place belongs to Disney film The Chronicles of Narnia, by Andrew Adamson (distributed by Buena Vista International Italia), with a weekend box office of 2.21m euro, a per screen average of 4,500 euro and a total box office of 9.17m euro. Coming in fourth, but at a significant distance from the top three films, is Peter Jackson’s super-technological remake of King Kong (distributed by UIP), with a weekend box office of 765,000 euro, a per screen average of 2,100 euro and a total box office of 6.4m euro.

Fifth and sixth, respectively, in the Top Ten are: Rumor Has It (Warner Bros Italia) and Memories of a Geisha (Eagle Pictures). Climbing from tenth to seventh place is children’s film Chicken Little (Buena Vista International Italia), while A History of Violence (01 Distribution) and Bee Season (I.I.F.) each drop a notch, and holding on in tenth place is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros Italia). Not to be overlooked are the Christmas exploits of Spanish film Reinas [+see also:
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(distributed by Lucky Red) that, thanks to audience interest and its restriction to minors notwithstanding, has doubled its screen count since being released initially on only 17 screens.

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(Translated from Italian)

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