Muccino, Guadagnino, Genovese, who has received the most public contributions among Italian directors?
A confidential document seen by Adnkronos reports which Italian titles and directors have received the most public contributions for the production of films and TV series which have not always achieved great success. All the details
Public contributions for cinema have grown in the last four years, however in the face of millions in compensation for directors, a greater production of works, lower takings compared to France and Germany, the increase in tax credit requests which have practically quadrupled compared to 2019 and above all of films that have received important contributions and then go into theaters for a few days with a negligible number of spectators; in some cases even less than 30.
This is the picture of Italian cinema and audiovisual, based on a confidential document that Adnkronos was able to view.
[…] Public contributions from the resources of the Fund for the development of investments in cinema and audiovisual […] went from 423.5 million euros in 2017 to 849.9 million in 2022 and to 746 million in 2023.
The document […] also refers to very high salaries received by the directors of films or TV series financed with the Fund and refers to a contribution to the second season of the series A casa tutti bene , directed by Gabriele Muccino, amounting to 2.1 million of euros from the Fund with the tax credit instrument, which would have indicated 2.2 million compensation.
Also on the list are: Paolo Genovese, director of the blockbuster series I Leoni di Sicilia on the Florio saga and due out on Disney+ on 25 October, financed with 8.7 million from the Fund with the tax credit instrument, which would have indicated 1.4 million as compensation; Luca Guadagnino and Edoardo Gabbriellini would have asked for 2.4 million euros as director's compensation for We are who we are , financed for a total of 13.2 million by the Fund with the tax credit instrument.
Saverio Costanzo would have indicated 1.4 million as director's compensation for My Brilliant Friend – Story of the new surname financed for a total of 10.5 million by the Fund with the tax credit instrument and Joseph Maximilian Wright would have indicated 1.7 million as director's compensation for M – Il Figlio del Secolo financed for a total of 14.9 million euros by the Fund with the tax credit instrument.
[…] Again according to the confidential document, some works that requested tax credit for national production from 2019 to 2022 had contributions in the millions against takings of a few thousand euros.
Even a film by an emerging director, Prima di go via by Massimo Cappelli, received 700 thousand euros in public funding and attracted only 29 spectators in the theater.
[…] According to what Adnkronos has learned, the Ministry of Culture has recently identified around twenty high-budget works, formally meeting the requirements, but for which there is suspicion as to their substantial compliance. The documentation would then be subjected to joint examination by the MIC and the Financial Police and the outcome should arrive in the next few weeks.
Furthermore, according to the document, the allocation of the Fund for the development of investments in cinema and audiovisuals referred to in art. 13 of law 14 November 2016, n. 220 has increased significantly in recent years, in particular in 2020 (+125 million euros), in 2021 (+133.6 million euros) and in 2022 (+25 million euros) as a result of the emergency resources allocated to in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Analyzing the data from the European Audiovisual Observatory, in particular regarding the trend of production volumes in the last three years available, Italy records the highest number of feature films produced (239 in 2021 compared to 197 in France, the 126 in the United Kingdom and 118 in Germany) but with lower takings: 176.9 million (increased to 306.6 in 2022) compared to 672.4 in France (1,094.4 million in 2022), the 541, 9 in the United Kingdom (980.8 in 2022) and 373.2 in Germany (693.2 in 2022). […]
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/muccino-guadagnino-genovese-chi-ha-ricevuto-piu-contributi-pubblici-tra-i-registi-italiani/ on Sat, 28 Oct 2023 05:45:11 +0000.