San Zalone has redone the miracle, in two days it touches 14 million is a record

The miracle of San Zalone has repeated itself: Tolo Tolo the new film by Luca Medici, expected as the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro by exhibitors from all over Italy and obviously by the orphaned spectators of the cinepanettoni of the past and eager to have fun at Christmas, perhaps also to identify himself, with the exploits of the character of Checco, the average / mediocre Italian dedicated to the art of getting by like an Alberto Sordi of the 2000s, has broken. And beaten himself: the film, distributed by Medusa and directed for the first time by Zalone himself, was released on January 1st in 1200 theaters, on the first day it reached 8.7 million euros, becoming the film with the highest grossing always in the history of Italian cinema in the first 24 hours of programming and surpassing the previous Quo Vado record (7.3 million). On the second, it grossed nearly 5 million, reaching just under € 14 million in two days.
Cinema sold out, online reservations in tilt as for a World Cup final: Luca Medici does not comment on his successes, he meditates on it. The producer Pietro Valsecchi, who is one of the two cinematographic fathers of Medici (the discoverer was Gennaro Nuziante, director of the first films when Checco made the parodies of TeleNorba, while historically it was the son of Valsecchi to report the neomelodic performances on Youtube to his father) speaks at ANSA of "exciting results that pay off two difficult and difficult years, because Luca Medici's project was ambitious and the choice to make his directorial debut had been discouraged by everyone, but today it is a won bet.
Luca had a great responsibility: the new film awaited by everyone and the directorial debut. He deserves this record: he gave the soul for Tolo Tolo, on the set I called him 'precise', he did not postpone anything, he wanted every perfect scene as he had in mind ". Yesterday Valsecchi sneaked in at some cinemas to listen to the comments incognito and he says he only heard enthusiastic things.
But compared to the previous Zalone, who was also comical in dealing with social issues such as the labor crisis, here, with an equally current issue such as the phenomenon of migrants, we laugh much less: "it is true we laugh less but we get excited about more - Valsecchi replies - and even on this he took a good risk, and I as a producer with him. Luca says 'I'm no longer the comedian of 10 years ago, I changed, grew up and my gaze is another'. public understood and appreciated and word of mouth I'm sure it works this time too ". If the film has had various criticisms, more or less positive, everyone liked the animated short film that closes Tolo Tolo and who knows does not become a spin off of something else, maybe a musical.
And the controversies on social instigation to racism? "They leave the time they find. Social media are a megaphone, but we decide who to answer and who to fight with and we have decided with nobody". Tolo Tolo, with its 1 million 174 thousand admissions on January 1st, obviously leads the takings and a top ten, as noted by the president of the Anica Francesco Rutelli, "with many Italian appearances, a sign of the vitality of our cinema". In addition to Zalone there are Pinocchio di Garrone, The First Christmas of Ficarra and Picone and La Goddess Fortuna of Ozpetek.
As for the previous films by Zalone, here is a review of the triumphal march of the box office: The first film of the comedian and musician from Bari, Cado dalle Nubi (2009) received € 14 million 084 thousand (the first day, November 27, 401,278); the second, Che bella Giorno (2011) collected 43 million 475 thousand Euros (the first day, January 5, 2,722,367); the third, Sole a catinelle (2013) collected 51 million 948 thousand euros (the first day, 31 October 2,354,057), the fourth finally, Quo Vado (2016) reached 65 million 365 thousand euros (the first day, 1 January 7360192). (HANDLE).