Gennaro Nunziante | |
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Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Film director |
Gennaro Nunziante is an Italian film director. He directed the three highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by Quo Vado?.[1][2]
He teamed up with Checco Zalone to write Cado dalle nubi (2009), with Zalone starring and Nunziante directing.
They followed it up in 2011 with Che bella giornata. It opened with a record Italian opening weekend of $9.4 million[3] and became the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time in Italy, grossing €43.4 million,[4] surpassing Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful.[2] Life Is Beautiful retained the worldwide grossing record for an Italian film with $70 million worldwide.[2]
In 2013, he and Zalone followed it up with Sole a catinelle which surpassed it with an opening record of €19.2 million and a total Italian gross of €51.9 million.[2][4][1]
In January 2016, his and Zalone's next film Quo Vado? set another opening weekend record grossing over €22m over the three-day holiday weekend[1][5][6] and went on to become the highest-grossing Italian film of all-time[7] with €65.3 million, second only to Avatar in Italy with €65.7 million.[7]
His and Zalone's films are currently the second, third and fifth highest-grossing films in Italy.