Not a single film, over seven days, made it through the one million euro mark. The craziest heat wave in decades, with its terrible drought, is influencing lifestyles around the peninsula. People stay home during the day. And the box office numbers are suffering as well.

Only one movie attracted more than a hundred thousand moviegoers at the theaters: it’s Elvis. After many years of absence, the return to the big screen of director Baz Luhrmann with the biographical movie on the legendary singer topped at the box office with € 878,586 collected in five days, and almost 125,000 viewers attracted to the theater. Not a great result, but it’s better than nothing.

Second in the ranking is Lightyear, the first Pixar film to arrive in theaters since the beginning of the pandemic. The spin-off film continues to fail to take off at the box office and, with € 696,025 grossed this week, reaching € 1,667,250 in total. The film’s numbers are decidedly underwhelming considering the great appeal that the Toy Story saga and Pixar films have always had in the past in Italy.

In third place in the Italian box office ranking, according to data provided by Cinetel, is Top Gun: Maverick. The film starring Tom Cruise and directed by Joseph Kosinski, with € 627,028 grossed this week, exceeds 10 million euros at the box office one month after its release in theaters. The film’s numbers, in this case, are in line with those of the rest of the world, in which the film has surpassed $1 billion in total receipts making it the highest-grossing film starring Tom Cruise in history. And these are the only good news in a slow, lazy week.

A bad week for Jurassic World – Dominion, the film that closes the Jurassic Park reboot trilogy, which, this week, grossed € 592,545. Black Phone, the only release of the week along with Elvis that was able to shake the box office, collected only € 229,616 in four days of programming. The horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Ethan Hawke was seen by 31,513 people, but its numbers may increase this week due to the rather favorable reception given to it by critics and Italian and international audiences.

There were two Italians in the rankings: in sixth place was Mario Martone’s Nostalgia with € 53,091 (and a total of € 1,248,540) and in eighth place comes the second chapter of Marco Bellocchio’s Esterno notte, which adds another € 29,082 to its meager total of only € 211,540. Jujutsu Kaisen 0, a Japanese anime-inspired by the series of the same name, takes seventh place with € 48,616, slightly exceeding the € 1 million total. The last two positions go to Les jeunes amants (€ 27,193 for a total of just over € 29,000) and the Swedish The other side, in tenth place with € 24,909 and € 163,000 total gross. Italy is waiting for some rain, to cool the boiling spirits and rekindle the desire for cinema.