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The writer-director and sometimes actor, who has co-written and directed five movies starring Italian comedy sensation Checco Zalone<\/a>, just became part of a record-breaking feat. This week, their latest collaboration \u2014 in which Zalone plays a rich and debauched father who zips around in a red Ferrari searching for his runaway daughter along Spain\u2019s famous Camino de Santiago spiritual pilgrimage \u2014 pulled more than \u20ac73 million ($87 million) after five weeks on release via Italy\u2019s Medusa<\/a>, and counting.<\/p>\n \u201cBuen Camino<\/a>\u201d has now surpassed Zalone\u2019s previously held records for a local title, the last of which was with 2016\u2019s \u201cQuo Vado,\u201d about a Southern Italian slacker hellbent on holding on to his parasitic government job even when he is transferred to the North Pole.<\/p>\n More significantly, \u201cBuen Camino<\/a>\u201d has also beaten the all-time top Italian box office haul ($82 million) heretofore held by \u201cAvatar<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Since its debut on Dec.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Italian multi-hyphenate Gennaro Nunziante is, understandably, quite proud. 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 \u2014 in which Zalone plays a rich and debauched father who zips around in a red Ferrari […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2254691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Buen-Camino-Director-on-Making-Italys-Biggest-Box-Office-Hit.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254693,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254691\/revisions\/2254693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}