The Passion does well opening weekend
While Christopher Nolan’s US blockbuster hit Inception has risen to the top of the box office with over €2.6m from its opening weekend, an Italian film has debuted in fourth place. Distributed on 255 screens by 01, Carlo Mazzacurati’s The Passion [+see also:
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film profile] (see article from Venice Film Festival, where the film played in Competition) grossed €810,000 over the weekend.
The other Italian title in the top ten is Saverio Costanzo’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers [+see also:
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interview: Luca Marinelli
film profile], in seventh place with €2,96m since its release on September 10.
Overall box office grew 1.9% from last week, from €9.8m to over €10m, and 20% with respect to the same period in 2009.
(Translated from Italian)
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