The Covid cases go down, the box office figures go up. The Italian film industry is back on track and for the second week in a row box office grosses and audience numbers levitate. The total gross of the top ten is € 6.008.626. A huge increase: 79% more than the previous week, which ended with a total of € 3.363.117.

The new release Uncharted, inspired by the famous videogame, starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, dominates the Italian box office, grossing € 2.400.707, the highest in Italy since the beginning of the year. Death on the Nile, which dominated last week’s chart, drops to second place (€1,730,692 for a total of €3,565,561). The highly anticipated docufilm Ennio, shot by Giuseppe Tornatore, which tells the life of the famous Italian composer, sits on the third step of the podium. After a brilliant start during the premiere on January 29^th and 30^th, the film dedicated to the Maestro has proved itself as the highest-grossing Italian production of the week (€ 651,712 for a total of € 968.124). 

On Valentine’s Day week love birds flew to the movie theaters for Marry Me, with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, which immediately conquered the fourth place taking in € 450.936 for a total of € 826.079.  Spider-Man: No Way Home, in theaters since December 15^th, still remains very appealing to the public and with € 198.359, for a total of € 24.403.960 since its debut, manages to keep a strong position, holding on number five. The bottom half of the chart sees respectively The Fair of Illusion – Nightmare Alley (€194,421 for a total of €1,722,326), The Wolf and The Lion (€183,912 for a total of €2,103,427), After Love (€76,134 for a total of €153,461),  Me vs You – The film: Lost in Time (€72,532 for a total of €3,434,135).

 The only Italian new entry shows up at the last position of the ranking: Leonora Addio (€49,221). The film, directed by Paolo Taviani – the only Italian feature at the Berlin Film Festival 2022 – tells the daring adventure of Pirandello’s ashes and the eventful journey of the urn from Rome to Agrigento, up to the troubled burial fifteen years after his death. 

As for TV series, the first season of Christian, produced and aired on Sky Atlantic has just ended, with a huge success. Christian is a supernatural crime drama starring a brilliant Edoardo Pesce, Silvia D’Amico, and Claudio Santamaria, set in a surreal, yet very real Rome, in a small self-sufficient world in the extreme outskirts of the capital of Italy: a city-palace that is the fusion of two well-known areas of the outskirts of Rome: Corviale – a one-kilometer-long housing project unit – and the Vigne Nuove neighborhood. As far as ongoing productions are concerned, cameras started rolling in Puglia on February 21 for the film In the Fire, starring Amber Heard, Eduardo Noriega, and Lorenzo Mcgovern Zaini, directed by Conor Allyn. Produced by ILBE (Iervolino and Lady Bacardi Entertainment) In the Fire is a thriller that explores the many paths…of the devil.