{"id":912,"date":"2009-01-27T14:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T09:43:07","slug":"italians-by-giovanni-veronesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/italians-by-giovanni-veronesi\/","title":{"rendered":"Italians, by Giovanni Veronesi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big new release in Italy this week is Giovanni Veronesi&#8217;s comedy <strong>Italians<\/strong>, which has simply mopped up at the box office.\u00a0 To give an example of the scale of its success, it&#8217;s taken almost 4.8 million euros over its opening weekend.\u00a0 The next most popular new release is <strong>Milk<\/strong>, which took nearly 610,ooo euros.\u00a0 The Italian appetite for domestic comedies is, it seems, as strong as ever.\u00a0 Although a cynic could point out that it&#8217;s showing on a ton of screens, and the takings per screen aren&#8217;t quite so impressive.\u00a0 Still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t any English language reviews of this one yet, and I doubt it will get much of an international release &#8211; stars Carlo Verdone and Sergio Castellitto rarely have their films break out into the wider world, despite their popularity in Italy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-913\" title=\"italians_3th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/mimbo2.2\/images\/italians_3th.jpg\" alt=\"Giovanni Veronesi Italians\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/italians_3th.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/italians_3th-61x88.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giovanni Veronesi Italians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big new release in Italy this week is Giovanni Veronesi&#8217;s comedy Italians, which has simply mopped up at the box office.\u00a0 To give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}