Blockbusters, blockbusters, blockbusters. And franchises too. This week’s domestic grosses at the box office confirm once again the summer forecast in the Bel Paese. While unusually high temperatures torment citizens from Milan to Rome, from Naples to Palermo – peaking over 95 degrees – only two movies made it through the 6-digit checkmark (and neither is an Italian production): Top Gun: Maverick and the new entry Jurassic World: Dominion. It’s basically a tie that sees the latter reach the first step of the podium by only €164.543. Notably, the revenues for the dinosaur saga directed by Colin Trevorrow, out in theaters since June 2^nd  are € 3.181.002, and 423.297 attendees versus  € 3.016.459 and a total attendance of 402.310 people (for a total gross since its Italian premiere of 6.976.505) for Tom Cruise’s last big hit.

Closing the podium is the acclaimed new feature film by Mario Martone Nostalgia, which was also screened at Cannes. The title, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, took home €454,243 out of a total of €916,847 marking 70,615 people in the theater (141,730 total). In the first step outside the winning trifecta, in the fourth position, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness still stands out, taking in €347,529 out of a very impressive total figure of €13,488,373, with an audience of 47,737 and a total of 1,824,731. Next is Esterno Notte – Part 1 by Marco Bellocchio with €87,183 (total €457,564) and 13,163 admissions (70,106 overall). In the sixth and seventh position come respectively Sonic 2 – The Movie and Alcarras, which brought home a total of €63,786 €10,195.

Dog makes it in at #8 with a gross of €36,389 while Fantastic Beasts – The Secrets of Dumbledore, continues to hold up despite its April 13 release with earnings of €33,338. Closing the top ten ranking is Madeleine Collins, which took in €25,753.

Italian films are doing better when it comes to online platforms: Odio l’estate – a 2020 film directed by Massimo Venier with the popular comedy trio Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo – was last week’s second most-watched film on Netflix Italy. Released about a month before the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in Italy, the film is the tenth starring the three actors; with revenues over € 7 million, it was the third-highest-grossing film of 2020 in Italy, preceded by Me contro Te – la vendetta del signor S with € 9 million and Checco Zalone’s record-breaking Tolo Tolo that raked in  € 46 million. Italian cinema will also star on the 20^th of June for the big night of the Nastri D’Argento in Rome, at the Maxxi Museum. E’ stata la mano di Dio by Paolo Sorrentino is the odds-on favorite followed by Nostalgia and Qui rido io by Martone, Ariaferma by Leonardo Di Costanzo and Freaks out by Gabriel Mainetti, written by Nicola Guaglianone. A special Nastro D’Argento to Jonas Carpignano for A Chiara. About 40 films are in the selection, for a year that is still critical for theaters but rich in talent.