Coronavirus, retainers, 70 movies and dozens of sets. The Italian cinema compact: we are Back in the room

Seventy films blocked from the beginning of the emergency and until the 4th of April, that will become a hundred, if the emergency measures still in use at the end of the month, many of which will come out on the platforms. At least forty sets of Italian closed (it is difficult to give precise numbers, many jobs were at different stages, but they revolve around 124 Italian films of the year). The first to close were the international ones, returned or migrated to other countries (“where, however soon, you will be faced with the same situation,” says Francesco Rutelli). The salt stopped the set, suspended, closed the work of dubbing of foreign films, many workers in the entertainment at home without safeguards.

very difficult Situation, but the rooms will not be abandoned. The Italian cinema has a population in numbers of the disaster, but reacts to uk and seeks to give shape to the future malgrando uncertainties. The main representatives of the associations have explained the work in progress in a conference call: the president of Anica, Francesco Rutelli, one of the sections Distributors Luigi Lonigro for the producers Francesca Cima and is responsible for the Strategic Planning Francesca Medolago Albani, and Mario Lorini, president of Ance, the national association of exhibitors. "The situation is difficult, it is not the time of the comments, but to work hard and provide useful information in this difficult time, to let you know how things are and how he tries to react to the condition dramatic", said Rutelli, who reiterates the importance of the hall as a social "soul" of the industry. Sottlinea as until the advent of the coronavirus to the data of the boxoffice were particularly positive for Italian cinema: "The salt will not be abandoned, and with them we will try to manage the problems of how to govern the supply of content in conditions without precedence. Until you have 1500 rooms have tried to remain open, accepting immediately the consent of resposnabilità ultimate decisions of the government closure”. Content, he explains, that are crucial for the people, the families, the country as a whole. “Our industries and our creative will have important responsibilities for these months, and then to tell the story of the post-war period in the coming years.”