Fresh from best week of the yearthe Italian box office is now preparing to welcome ai new films that they will try to chase Inside Out 2 and tear into the film Disney Pixar first place in takings. Not an easy mission at all, considering that in seven days the animated sequel has grossed over 20 million euros, but among the new releases there are films that will try to undermine its primacy.
Starting from A Quiet Place – Day 1the prequel film to the amazing sci-fi horror directed by John Krasinski of 2018. Distributed by Eagle Pictures in 310 cinemas, we will experience the day when the world is plunged into silence, when an alien species with hyper-sensitive hearing invades the Earth. Written by the same actor and director and this time directed by Michael Sarnoski, we find the cast of the new chapter of the saga Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn (star of Stranger Things and the next Fantastic Four) And Djimon HounsouThe first film, awarded with the Oscar for best sound, grossed 1.1 million euros in 2018, while the 2021 sequel stopped (in the midst of Covid) at 903 thousand euros.
Among the main new releases of the week, by number of theaters, there is also Hitman – Accidental Killerthe eagerly awaited action comedy presented in Venice 2023 and which will bring back Glen Powell on the big screen six months after the success of Everyone Except You. This time the actress joins him Adria Arjonawhile he is directing Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Boyhood). Arrives in around 300 cinemas with BiM Distribution and tells the hilarious story of Gary Johnson, a somewhat awkward psychology professor who works undercover for the New Orleans Police Department. When he is asked to pose as a killer to foil possible murders and frame the instigators, he turns out to be incredibly skilled, thanks also to the chameleonic disguises of which he is capable. His double and solid identity is put into crisis by the fascinating Madison (Adria Arjona), who commissions him to kill her husband. A relationship is born between the two that will overturn roles and certainties in an overwhelming and intense mix of comical, boiling and dangerous situations.
Also arriving on the bill from tomorrow Thursday 27 June 2024 Shoshannaoffered in 137 cinemas by Vision Distribution. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and inspired by true events, it is a thriller set in the 1930s in Tel Aviv, a new Jewish city of European origin built on the coasts of the Mediterranean. Through the relationship between Thomas Wilkin (Douglas Booth) and Shoshana Borochov (Irina Starshenbaum), the film tells how violence and extremism manage to create a separation between individuals, forcing them to choose a side. A member of the British-Palestinian Police Force’s counter-terrorism squad, Wilkin works alongside Geoffrey Morton (Harry Melling) in the hunt for an underground leader, the charismatic poet Avraham Stern (Aury Alby). Stern is convinced that the construction of the state of Israel must necessarily pass through violence, and Wilkin and Morton become his main targets. Like many in Tel Aviv, Shoshana is modern, progressive and feminist. She hates Stern’s policies and his followers, but as the climate of violence intensifies, she will be forced to decide who she wants to fight alongside.
To celebrate the 120th anniversary of TitanusInstead, Nexo Digital will instead report to 85 cinemas from 27 June to 03 July The Leopard Of Luchino Visconti. For cinema lovers, it will be an opportunity to see the Italian director’s masterpiece on the big screen with Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa And Rina Morelliadaptation of the famous novel by Giuseppe Tomasi of Lampedusa. This is the first of five Titanus 120° Classics events proposed by the distribution company specializing in event releases.
Then there’s room for other interesting releases for next weekend: 01 Distribution reports in 30 cinemas Dogmanthe film by Matteo Garrone of 2018 with Marcello Fonte and Edoardo Pesce, winner of 3 European Film Awards, the award for best male performance at the Cannes Film Festival and 9 David di Donatello; it is the story of a suburb suspended between metropolis and wild nature, where the only law seems to be that of the strongest and Marcello is a small and gentle man who divides his days between work in his modest dog grooming salon, the love for his daughter Sofia, and an ambiguous relationship of subservience with Simoncino, a former boxer who terrifies.
Other Stories instead it distributes in 25 cinemas Stray Animalsfilm by Maria Tilli which tells of two young people from the province: Luca drives the ambulance, Toni is a rescuer; one day they are asked to transport Emir for special care, together with his daughter Maria, but the truth is that he has incurable lung cancer and is going to Serbia to undergo euthanasia, which he omitted from Maria, with whom wants to recover a now non-existent relationship.
Arthouselabel of The Wonder Picturesresponds instead by bringing the documentary to 22 cinemas Four daughters Of Kaouther Ben Hania: tells the life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, whose existence was often rebellious, but inexorably crushed by the weight of tradition and society. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill that incomprehensible void, the director invites two professional actresses to take their place alongside the woman and her two younger daughters, to retrace and stage – between reality and fiction – the family’s history. The film was nominated at the 2024 Oscar for Best Documentary.
Finally, among the new releases we also find Fremont (20 rooms, with Wanted Cinema), the story of a former Afghan translator living alone in the California town whose life takes a turn when she is promoted in the factory where she works to write messages in fortune cookies and her cards are read by strangers all over the Bay; and Amen (distributed by Fandango), films by Andrea Baroni set in a country farmhouse frozen in time where three daughters live who have never abandoned the property out of respect and duty, under the aegis of their master father and a dogmatic woman, but the arrival of his nephew shakes things up First.
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