Some of the films being screened
at this year's 46th Giffoni Film Festival, taking place July
14-24, are part of a range of wide-release blockbusters set to
hit Italian cinemas as well.
The festival is screening the new Pixar-Disney box office
phenomenon Finding Dory by director Andrew Stanton and Angus
McLane, scheduled for release in Italy on September 14.
The festival's young public also gets a sneak peek at the
remake of The Ghostbusters with a female ghost-fighting team,
from director Paul Feig with Italian release on July 28 and at
Drake Doremus's Equals, starring Kristen Stewart and Nicholas
Hoult. The latter will be on hand at the festival.
The new variation on dance, love and music - Michael
Damian's New York Academy - tells the story of a meeting between
a classical ballerina, played by Keenan Kampa, and a violinist
played by Nicholas Galitzine, a guest at Giffoni this year, and
will be in Italian theatres on August 18.
Thea Sharrock's Me Before You, based on the bestselling
book by Jojo Moyes, is scheduled for release in Italy on
September 1.
It stars Sam Claflin, who will be at Giffoni, in the role
of a banker who ends up in a wheelchair due to an accident, and
Emilia Clark (who plays Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones),
as an assistant who gives the young man back his desire for
life.
Also screening will be a French documentary on the
environment that was a box office hit, directed by Cyril Dion
and Mélanie Laurent and slated to hit Italian screens on October
6 thanks to Lucky Red Distribution.
Fungus the Bogeyman is a two-episode miniseries, a mix of
live action and computer generated imagery (CGI) about a
bogeyman played by Timothy Spall, who lives underground and
whose job is to scare human beings at night.
It's scheduled to reach the public on Sky in September.
In competition for the youngest audiences in the Elements
+3 category is Andres Couturier's Top Cat, which will be in
Italian cinemas on July 20 with M2 Pictures.
The India-Mexico-UK coproduction is the second CGI
adventure based on the Hanna & Barbera character.
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