The writer-director and sometimes actor, who has co-written and directed five movies starring Italian comedy sensation Checco Zalone, just became part of a record-breaking feat. This week, their latest collaboration — in which Zalone plays a rich and debauched father who zips around in a red Ferrari searching for his runaway daughter along Spain’s famous Camino de Santiago spiritual pilgrimage — pulled more than €73 million ($87 million) after five weeks on release via Italy’s Medusa, and counting.
“Buen Camino” has now surpassed Zalone’s previously held records for a local title, the last of which was with 2016’s “Quo Vado,” about a Southern Italian slacker hellbent on holding on to his parasitic government job even when he is transferred to the North Pole.
More significantly, “Buen Camino” has also beaten the all-time top Italian box office haul ($82 million) heretofore held by “Avatar.”
Since its debut on Dec.
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