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Il vegetale starring Fabio Rovazzi in Italian theatres from 18 January 2018

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- The latest film to be written and directed by Gennaro Nunziante, a director who racked up record box-office admissions with Quo vado?, will star the young Italian chart-topping singer

Il vegetale starring Fabio Rovazzi in Italian theatres from 18 January 2018
Singer Fabio Rovazzi

The announcement sparked a fair amount of amazement and curiosity among professionals at the recent Cinè – Giornate Estive di Cinema in Riccione: box office champion director Gennaro Nunziante, without his usual partner in crime Checco Zalone for the first time, and young Italian chart-topping singer Fabio Rovazzi, together for a film, entitled Il Vegetale [+see also:
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. Now we also have a release date: 18 January 2018. The announcement was made by Disney Italia: “Il Vegetale will be aimed at a broad and cross-cutting audience”, said the managing director of The Walt Disney Company Italia, Daniel Frigo, “I’m so pleased that our company is able to bring one of the most well-loved characters of recent years, Fabio Rovazzi, to the big screen, along with one of the most highly-esteemed directors and screenwriters in Italy”.

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The film, which is currently under development and the plot of which is still top secret, is being produced by Piero Crispino for 3ZERO2 and co-produced by The Walt Disney Company Italia, which will also distribute the film in theatres. For Fabio Rovazzi, who is 23 years-old and from Milan, this will be his first experience acting in a film, after scaling the Italian charts with hits like “Andiamo a comandare”, “Tutto molto interessante” and “Volare”, and winning five platinum records.

Gennaro Nunziante, for his part, has gone from one successful venture to another; starting with his debut film Cado dalle nubi [+see also:
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(2009, €14 million in box-office takings), he went on to step things up magnificently with Che bella giornata [+see also:
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(2011, €44 million), Sole a catinelle [+see also:
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(2013, €53 million) and all-time box-office champion Quo vado? [+see also:
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(€65 million). This duo is bound to produce sparks.

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(Translated from Italian)

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