Merry Christmas (2001 film)

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Merry Christmas
Directed by Neri Parenti
Written by Fausto Brizzi
Lorenzo De Luca
Marco Martani
Neri Parenti
Produced by Aurelio De Laurentiis
Starring Massimo Boldi
Christian De Sica
Enzo Salvi
Biagio Izzo
Fichi d'India
CinematographyGianlorenzo Battaglia
Edited byLuca Montanari
Music by Bruno Zambrini
Distributed by Filmauro [1]
Release date
  • 21 December 2001 (2001-12-21)
[1]
Running time
98 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Budget$7.5 million [1]

Merry Christmas is a 2001 Italian Christmas comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. [2]

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Cast

Production

The film was Filmauro's annual Christmas comedy. It was originally titled Christmas in New York. It was filming at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy on 11 September 2001 and was due to film in New York for four weeks 4 days later. Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, production was stopped for a month and the script rewritten to change the location to Amsterdam. [1]

Reception

The film opened at the top of the Italian box office with a first week gross of 11.7 billion lire ($5.6 million) and remained there for a second week, grossing $13.5 million in 12 days. [3] [4] It was the first Filmauro comedy to be the Christmas number one since A spasso nel tempo in 1996. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Rooney, David (7 January 2002). "Local yokels deliver a boffo B.O holiday gift". Variety . p. 30.
  2. "Merry Christmas". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  3. "International box office". Variety . 7 January 2002. p. 15. Weekly gross to 3 January $5,578,692; Total gross to 3 January $11,441,941; % change -5%
  4. Boland, Michaela (7 January 2002). "'Lord' runs rings 'round o'seas B.O.". Variety . p. 15.