Variety, Italian summer between arenas and Little America

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 06 - The commitment of the CinemaAmerica boys for cinema in the summer square, through a 1000-seat trelocation, and the judgment in favor of the arenitratuite by the Antitrust, in the battle led by the association for access to a more free distribution of films are among the themes at the center of Variety's article on the summer cinema in Italy between arenas and creative solutions, such as Alice in the city.
    We also remind the participation of Prime Minister Conte with his companion at the beginning of July, at the opening of the Roman projections of 'Cinema in the square' in San Cosimato, respecting the measuring Covid. "The event is organized by the non-profit association Piccolo America, an energetic group of young cinema enthusiasts who have been moving things since they occupied the nearby Cinema America, which had been closed," writes NickVivarelli, who recalls how the ruling of the Antitrust has 'released' a great deal of titles for free arenas.
   Cinema, explains the president of the boys of Cinema AmericaValerio Carocci, "can be a great tool after the Covid-19 to teach people to gather again collectively in the public spaces of our city".
    The reboot, however, according to the box office, is slow: "The primoweekend of August - reads the article - saw 87 milapresences for 516 screens, including paid arenas, with an average of 23 spectators per screen". There is also space for "creative solutions", from the facades of the buildings transformed during the lockdown into large screens, to the summer arena on the Eur lake, organized by Alice in the city, an independent and independent section aimed at the younger audience, at the Rome Film Festival. During the lockdown "we received calls from people who asked us to organize an undrive-in - explains Gianluca Giannelli, director of Alice in the city with Fabia Bettini -, but we didn't like the idea of ​​going from being closed in the living room to being closed in your car , at a time when nature was prevailing. So we thought of a natural space to show movies inside the city ". (HANDLE).