ROME -- Italian films, for years maligned even in their own country, are enjoying a renaissance, with boxoffice booming and critical accolades rolling in. According to Italian cinema monitoring company Cinetel, some 34% of Italian boxoffice receipts have come from Italian films over the first four months of this year, compared with 23% for all of 2005 and less than 15% in most years. Figures have been buoyed by such commercial successes as Carlo Verdone's Il Mio miglior nemico, Fausto Brizzi's Notte prima degli esami, Nanni Moretti's The Cayman, Michele Placido's Crime Novel, and Cristina Comencini's Don't Tell -- all of which have raked in more than 5 million ($6.4 million). Il Mio miglior nemico heads the pack, approaching 20 million ($25.7 million) in ticket sales.
- 5/16/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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