Gennaro Nunziante

Gennaro Nunziante
NationalityItalian
OccupationFilm director

Gennaro Nunziante is an Italian film director. He directed the three highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by Quo Vado?.[1][2]

Career

He teamed up with Checco Zalone to write Cado dalle nubi (2009), with Zalone starring and Nunziante directing.

They followed it up in 2011 with Che bella giornata. It opened with a record Italian opening weekend of $9.4 million[3] and became the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time in Italy, grossing €43.4 million,[4] surpassing Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful.[2] Life Is Beautiful retained the worldwide grossing record for an Italian film with $70 million worldwide.[2]

In 2013, he and Zalone followed it up with Sole a catinelle which surpassed it with an opening record of €19.2 million and a total Italian gross of €51.9 million.[2][4][1]

In January 2016, his and Zalone's next film Quo Vado? set another opening weekend record grossing over €22m over the three-day holiday weekend[1][5][6] and went on to become the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time[7] with €65.3 million, second only to Avatar in Italy with €65.7 million.[7]

His and Zalone's films are currently the second, third and fifth highest-grossing films in Italy.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c Anderson, Ariston (January 4, 2016). "Italy Box Office: Local Hit 'Quo Vado?' Sets Opening Records". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Lyman, Eric J. (November 4, 2013). "Italian Comedy 'Sun in Buckets' Sets New Opening Weekend Sales Record". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  3. ^ "Beautiful Day' now Italy's most successful film (Reuters)". 2011-01-17.
  4. ^ a b "Annuario Cinetel 2014" (PDF). Cinetel. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  5. ^ Hoad, Phil. "Backward-looking The Force Awakens might pay the price beyond the west". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
  6. ^ "Quo Vado? has beaten Star Wars at the box office". The Independent. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
  7. ^ a b Niola, Gabriele (January 14, 2016). "Italy box office: 'Quo Vado?' becomes biggest ever local film". Screen Daily. Retrieved October 3, 2019.


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