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DAY 8
Tuesday 15 May 2018

Love and Bullets

Facts &

figures

● Population: 60.5 million
● GDP per capita: $30,507

PRODUCTION (2016)
● Italian films produced
(including co-productions):
223
● Total budget:
€344,87m
● Co-productions
with France: 18
● Co-productions with
Switzerland: 6
● Co-productions
with Poland: 5
● Average production budget:
€1,778m
TO THE DOLOMITES BOX OFFICE (2017)

● Total admissions: 92,336,963
OF STAR WARS ● Total admissions Italian films
(including co-productions):
16,880,223
● Gross BO: €584,843,610
● Gross BO Italian films:
€103,149,979
● Average ticket price: €6.33
that has shown great vitality of late, particularly in terms ● National market share (based
of employment in comparison with the more traditional on total revenues): 17.64%
sectors”, said the President of the Region of Campania, ● United States: 66.28%
Vincenzo De Luca, on introducing the Campania Film ● Europe: 13.23%
Commission’s new board of directors — presided over by ● Films released: 563
the journalist, Titta Fiore — in April. (216 Italian productions
And news emanating from the south doesn’t stop at or co-productions)
Naples. The Calabria Film Commission has got off to a ● Films released in 3D: 38
fresh start with newly-appointed president, Giuseppe ● Complementary content
Citrigno, who has taken in hand an organisation that was (events, special editions,
labouring under €1.6m of inherited debt — and which re-issues and restored
commissioner Pasquale Anastasi spent 18 months slowly editions, in addition to new
remedying — and is revitalising it by offering a range of released films): 96
subsidies for the cinema and audio-visual industry, as ● Admissions complementary
approved by the Region of Calabria in February. The contents: 1,617,472
funding amounts to €600,000 of non-repayable finance ● Gross BO complementary
for 2018 (€500,000 for films and TV dramas, €55,000 for Love and Bullets contents: €14,116m
documentaries and €45,000 for web series). The jewel in (including VOD via Netflix). Local support for the film, ● Top grossing film 2017:
the Calabrian crown this year was, without a doubt, A which was shot in the small Romai community close to La Bella e la Bestia
Ciambra, the second film by young Jonas Carpignano, Gioia Tauro, was born out of a joint venture between two (€20.5m)
presented at the 2017 Critics’ Fortnight in Cannes, where commissions, Calabria and Lucania, and a collaboration ● Top grossing Italian films
it was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label. Executively agreement called LuCa, for the provision of €200,000 for 2017: L’ora Legale
produced under the masterful eye of Martin Scorsese, the projects looking to shoot on location in either region. As (€10.3m), Mister Felicità
film came close to Oscar nomination and went on to claim director, Paride Leporace, said: “In just five years of (€10.2m)
numerous awards, and securing worldwide distribution existence, the Lucana Film Commission has successfully

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