''Merry Christmas'' is a 2001 Italian
Cinepanettone
The cinepanettoni (singular: cinepanettone) are a series of farcical comedy films, one or two of which are scheduled for release annually in Italy during the Christmas period. The films were originally produced by Aurelio De Laurentiis' Filmauro ...
comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...
film directed by
Neri Parenti
Neri Parenti (born 26 April 1950, in Florence) is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of '' cinepanettoni'' - zany ...
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Cast
Production
The film was
Filmauro
Filmauro is an Italian media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films, founded in 1975 by Luigi De Laurentiis.
The company catalogue counts over 400 movies. The company also owns a series of movie theaters in Rome, ...
's annual Christmas comedy. It was originally titled ''Christmas in New York''. It was filming at
Fiumicino Airport
Fiumicino () is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 80,500 (2019). It is known for being the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the eleventh-bu ...
in
Rome, Italy
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on 11 September 2001 and was due to film in New York for four weeks 4 days later. Following the
11 September 2001 attacks
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, production was stopped for a month and the script rewritten to change the location to Amsterdam.
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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.A spasso nel tempo
''A spasso nel tempo'' () is a 1996 Italian science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina.
The film is included in the Italian sub-genre of '' cinepanettoni''. According to Adam O'Leary, ''A spasso nel tempo'' and its sequel are ...
'' in 1996.[
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See also
* List of Christmas films
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year d ...
References
External links
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2001 films
Films directed by Neri Parenti
Films scored by Bruno Zambrini
2000s Italian-language films
2000s Christmas comedy films
Italian Christmas comedy films
2000s Italian films
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