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Italy’s Box Office Suffers Disastrous Weekend As Government Closes All Cinemas To Combat Coronavirus

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By Tom Grater, Nancy Tartaglione The Italian film industry was facing up to the worst box office session in its history this weekend, that was until the country’s government issued a decree shuttering all of its cinemas on Sunday (March 8) for almost a month, meaning it became something of a moot point.

Box office was tracking 94% down on the same period last year at just $504,000 across all titles on release, with the number one movie being Italian biopic Hidden Away, about the painter Antonio Ligabue, which won the best actor honour at last month’s Berlin International Film Festival.

The movie took $132,960 from just 19,471 admissions. This weekend’s session was also 79% down on the previous weekend. Other fare in the top ten included

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